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The Jewish Vote
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Now that we’re in the midst of national, statewide and local political
| campaigns, it might be expedient to consider some pertinent factors
I concerning what lengths candidates will utilize to garner votes.
In the case of this publication, there is always the question of, “Is there a
Jewish Vote?”
The TJPost has been called by candidates and voters as well, each seeking
advice on what to do. For the most part, when we know it we can give a voter
■ a candidate’s record. It is the voter’s right to make the choice. As for
S candidates who wish to curry extra favors, we’ve had a spate of politicos tell
us that they have always been “friendly” to Jews.
Some of them have written us of their record.
In the past, whenever an elected representative of the people declares
himself we try and report it. We even report sins of omission. However, the
£ final choice is with the voter.
r ar paramount.
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^ In an editorial in the current issue of “Reform Judaism,” Jews are warned
<f‘ about devious ways politicians can and may employ to exploit their votes by
trying to exploit the issue of Israel and the strong feeling Jews have for the
release of Soviet Jews who are being held in bondage by the U.S.S.R.
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• “Continuing revelations about the Nixon years and about the hysteria and
paranoia which haunted the man, especially in his final days in the White
House, have lost the power to shock and are even becoming wearisome. One is
almost tempted to agree with Betty Ford and let the dead bury the dead and
forget about the residual details of one of America’s most nauseous chapters.
“But one aspect of the life and views of Richard Nixon may deserve comment
^ because it may have in it a lesson for the present and the future.
“President Nixon was not only a secretive, duplicitous, and fearful man, he
had mixed feelings, to say the least, about Jews. This is confirmed in the tapes
H and amplified sensationally in published reports which show a disintegrating
ft president muttering about a ‘Jewish cabal’ which, in his tormented view, was
busily doing anti-Nixon mischief, including distorting the figures of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics to make him look bad. This is all quite consistent
with the tapes in which the President ordered his underlings to steer his
daughters away from museums because they are dominated by ‘Jews and
left-wingers.’
ft “This sordid portrait takes on a bitter irony when one recalls the
ft romanticization of President Nixon by some Jews as the savior of Israel and
the guardian of the Jewish people. Nor were some prominent Israelis above
pushing his reelection as the indispensable salvation of Israel. The old
philosophic question of how many angels can stand on the head of a pin is now
replaced by a new conundrum: How should Jews cope with an anti-Semite
who is pro-Israel?
V “There are harsh lessons to be learned by the Jewish community and this
ft lesson has nothing to do with such petty partisan matters as Republicans
versus Democrats, since both parties have failed the American people in
\cm recent decades. No president and no presidential Roosevelt, who was beloved
ft. by so many American Jews, betrayed refugees from Hitler. On the other
ft hand, the recent record is a melancholy reminder of how dangerous it is for
Jews to measure a candidate solely in terms of so-called Jewish issues of
Israel and Soviet Jewry.
“The Jewish representatives at the recent consultation with presidential
candidates in Washington laid great stress on the security of Israel, the plight
of Soviet Jews, the torment of Syrian Jews, etc., but they were also equally
ft insistent on knowing each candidate’s thinking on such issues as gun control,
ft crime, civil rights, the role of the CIA, the economic situation, abortion, and
the many great issues on the social and moral agenda of American life. Some
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J Annual Observance in Israel
® Remembers Victims, Heroes
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
Israelis paid tribute to the
memory of the six million
Jewish victims of the
Holocaust with two min-
utes of silence and a shut
down of all cafes and places
of entertainment. The
annual observance also
commemorated the 33rd
anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising. Addres-
sing an assembly at Yad
Vashem, President
Ephraim Katzir declared
that while the Nazis did not
succeed in their aim of
destroying “not only the
Jews but the very memory
of Judaism, the hatred that
burned in the heart of the
Satan burns still, and a
large part of mankind has
not learned the lesson of
the Holocaust.” He called
on all Jews to strengthen
Israel as “the bastion of the
Jewish people, to prevent
another Holocaust.” At
another ceremony, Reli-
gious Affairs Minister Yitz-
hak Raphael said that “we
now know” that the Ameri-
can President, the Pope
and other heads of go-
vernment were partners in
a “plot of silence” over the
Holocaust during World
War II. He said that if even
a tiny Jewish state had
existed at the time, it
would have been possible
to lessen the tragedy and
break the conspiracy of
silence. Similar ceremonies
were held in Jewish com-
munities throughout the
world including New York,
Washington, Boston, Pitts-
burgh, Toronto, London,
Brussels and Buenos Aires.
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WNS- World News Service
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President May Veto
Foreign Aid Package
WASHINGTON (WNS) - President Ford
continued to be adamant against providing
aid to Israel and other countries to cover
the transitional quarter between the end of
the current fiscal year on June 30 and the
start of the 1977 fiscal year on Oct. 1. There
are also indications that Ford may veto the
entire foreign aid bill because of what he
considers Congressional encroachment on
Presidential powers. Meanwhile Congress
had adopted a $4.4 billion foreign aid
authorization bill which includes $2.26
billion in economic and military assistance
for Israel. The bill authorizes up to 25
percent of the amount approved for this
year to be added on for the transitional
quarter which would give Israel an
additional $550 million. The aid bill was
approved by a 215-185 vote in the House
and 51-35 in the Senate. Both bodies still
have to vote on a bill appropriating the
funds.
Ford, while campaigning in
Dallas for the Texas Repub-
lican primary, told the Texas
Jewish Post last week that
he still opposed providing
Israel with the $550 million
in transitional quarter aid.
He said there is “no need in a
25-month period for any
more” after Israel has
received $4 billion during
that time. The President
was apparently referring to
the $2.2 billion he has asked
Congress to provide Israel in
the current fiscal year and
Continued on Page 4
Decade to Combat Racism
Loses U.S., Israel Support
UNITED NATIONS
(WNS) - The United States
and Israel have both
stressed that they cannot
participate in the U.N.’s
Decade for Action to Com-
bat Racism and Racial
Discrimination because of its
linkage to anti-Zionism.
Addressing the Economic
and Social Council (ECO-
SOC), American Ambassa-
dor William Scranton said
the U.S. “will never accept”-
last November’s General
Assembly resolution equa-
ting Zionism with racism.
“Zionism is not racism,”
Scranton said. “It is not
racial discrimination. It is a
justifiable and understand-
able manifestation of a
national feeling on the part
of a people entitled to a
homeland, whose claim to a
homeland was recognized by
the United Nations almost
30 years ago.” Chaim Her-
zog, Israel’s Ambassador
said that Israel “regretfully”
cannot support the Decade
until it is cleansed of all
links, no matter how remote,
to the anti-Zionist resolu-
tion. He stressed that Israel
supports “all moves to
eliminate racism in the
world.” He declared that
racism and racial discrimina-
tion do not exist in Israel.
Referring to accusations
during the ECOSOC debate
by Syria and others that the
recent visit to Israel by
South African Prime Mini-
ster John Vorster was proof
of collaboration between the
two countries, Herzog said
he rejected this “out of
hand.” He said the Vorster
visit began as a pilgrimage
to Holy Places for Easter
and noted that Israel “has
invariably refrained from
commenting on whom other
countries receive as visi-
tors.”
Meanwhile, an eight-
member committee has re-
commended to the Commit-
tee for the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the
Palestinian People that it
recommend to the Security
Council that all Palestinians
be allowed “to return to
their homes, lands and
property” and that a Pales-
tinian state be created. The
Continued on Page 4
Fifteen Years of 'Living Together'
Solution to Mideast Conflict—Javits
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
Israel and its Arab neigh-
bors need 10-15 years “of
living together” in a state of
-renunciation of war and
non-belligerency before
peace could be “phased in,”
according to Sen. Jacob K.
Javits (R. NY). Javits’
remarks were made at a
press conference after he
returned from talks with the
leaders of Egypt, Syria,
Jordan and Israel. He said
that the most important
contribution for peace in the
Middle East was the re-
building he saw of Egyptian
cities along the Suez Canal
and hoped that this also
could be done in Kuneitra on
the Golan Heights. Javits
said he hoped President
Ford and Syrian President
Hafez Assad would meet
soon as a report from Israel
indicated. He said if Ford
went to the Mideast his
presence “would symbolize
that the area has no appetite
for war” and that “a
relatively new” and “more
normal situation” prevails
there “notwithstanding the
tragedy in Lebanon.” How-
ever, the White House said
that while a Ford-Assad
meeting is an “open possibi-
lity” there are no plans to
hold one, and if a meeting
would be scheduled it would
not be in the Middle East.
Javits, who met with Arab
leaders on the West Bank
while in Israel, said if that
area is held “in the wrong
hands” it would “be a dagger
in the heart of Israel.” But
he firmly opposed new
Jewish settlements in the
area, noting that “the fact of
settlement won’t make any
difference in our ultimate
position.” Javits also said he
made no attempt to meet
with PLO leader Yasir
Arafat and refused to
answer a question on
whether Arafat had invited
him. He said he had visited
the Arab countries at the
request of Arab ambassa-
dors who wanted him to get
the views of their leaders
first hand. “I’m glad I went,”
he said.
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