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TEXAS JEWISH POST NEW YEAR ISSUE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1984 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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Not All That Meets The Eye...
When Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir
stepped to the podium of the 39th UN General
Assembly, and glanced over the sea of empty seats, one
could not but wonder at the sharp contrast between the
empty seats and the reality of the meetings which take
place privately in the back rooms of the United Nations.
The Arabs clearly have their own reasons for staying
away from an Israeli speech. They fear that listening to
Israel could bring about an opening for peace in the
Middle East, a prospect none but Egypt can easily
accept. Other nations, such as the Soviet Union and the
African states, join the Arabs in what is viewed as the
necessity to demonstrate solidarity with the Arabs,
rather than any displeasure with Israel.
It appears that the behavior of these countries in
front of the media on the international center-
stage, is more for public and domestic consump-
tion rather than for what these nations believe to be in
their own best interests.
It is readily acknowledged, for example, that Israel
has made considerable inroads in Africa, where most
states broke diplomatic relations with the Jewish State
in 1973. But despite Israeli help and assistance in
agricultural projects in Africa, something that
poverty-stricken areas desperately need, the African
states decided that for mass media consump-
tion, it is better to leave empty seats in the UN hall.
Furthermore, Shamir met just a few days before his
UN speech with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko, in a meeting described as lacking in polemics.
Obviously, Gromyko saw some advantage to meeting
with Shamir privately rather than publicly attending a
UN speech by an Israeli leader.
Gromyko’s meeting with Shamir as well as other
meetings between Israeli officials and representa-
tives of other states give credence that there are two
shows being played at the UN. One is for the media and
the public, the other is in the back rooms and corridors.
Unfortunately, rarely is the latter reported by the
press.
monitor
BY M.J. ROSENBERG has been visitin& Amman.
Between You and Me
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief emeritus, J.T.A.]
[Copyright 1984, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.]
THE GREAT CONFUSION: The
American Jewish community started the
Jewish new year in the greatest confusion
it ever experienced in the history of
Presidential elections in the United
States.
The confusion is noted in both camps —
in the ranks of Jewish voters who always
voted for the Democratic ticket, as well as
among Jews who switched to the Republi-
can ticket in the last election. In the 1980
Presidential election some 40 percent of
the Jewish voters cast their ballots for
Reagan. This was taken as indication that
more Jews are becoming Republican-
minded.
How will Jews vote in the November
election this year?
Experts estimate that in the election
campaign, which is now in high gear, the
Mondale-Ferraro ticket now has a
rock-bottom base of something more than
a third of the Jewish voters, and the
Reagan-Bush ticket has a rock-bottom
base of something less than a third. This
leaves about a third still undecided.
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THE AGONIZING QUESTIONS: There
are many Jewish voters at present who
basically agree with Mondale, but are
asking themselves the agonizing questions:
“Do I really want to vote for a party in
which Jesse Jackson will have a strong,
perhaps dominating influence in the White
House?”
The national convention of the Demo-
cratic Party — under the influence of
Jackson forces — avoided a platform plank
repudiating anti-Semitism. The condem-
nation of anti-Semitism was later insert-
ed in a policy statement by the executive
committee of the Democratic Party a day
after the national convention was over,
and only after Mondale contacted
important members of the executive and
insisted on including specific reference to
anti-Semitism. The injection was made via
a poll over the telephone among the
members of the executive. The incident
has raised the question about how much
power Jackson may be wielding in the
Democratic Party and on the White House
after the elections.
Another yielding to Jackson by the
national convention of the Democratic
Party was the deletion from the platform
of opposition to quotas on equal rights.
The platform committee of the party
earlier approved opposition to quotas — a
major issue in which Jews are deeply
interested. However, the approval was
deleted from the text submitted to the
convention. This was done in order to
appease Jackson who is stubborn in
fighting for replacing equal rights with
discriminatory quota systems and prefer-
ential treatment in hiring.
Jewish organizations are unanimous in
their opposition to using quotas and
proportional representation in hiring.
They consider replacing equal rights with
discriminatory quota systems and prefer-
ential treatment as “reverse discrimina-
tion.” They recognize that members
of racial, religious, ethnic and other
groups have too often been victims of
inequality and discrimination and that the
largest of the groups have been the
Blacks. They therefore support “affirma-
tive actions” — by both government and
the private sector — that provides
intensive recruitment for employment of
qualified persons and training of quali-
fiable individuals of disadvantaged
groups. However, they reject the pro-
position that race, color or ethnicity is a
qualification to any post. Their stand is
that individual merit is the touchstone of
quality of opportunity. They are in
agreement with the Civil Rights Act of
1964 which forbids racial preference and
quotas.
THE DOMINATING FEARS: The na-
tional convention of the Republican Party
has gone on record in its platform as
opposing a quota system in equal rights. It
stamped the quota system as “a most
insidious form of discrimination.” It also
repudiated specifically anti-Semitism and
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Conventional wisdom has
it that the Middle East is
relegated to the back burner
in the months prior to a
Presidential election. Ac-
cording to this logic, the
Middle East "peace process”
should be at a standstill now
— less than a month before
U.S. voters make their
choice for President.
That is not the way it
looks from Washington. At
this point it is hard to tell
precisely what is happening.
But one thing is clear: there
is movement and it appears
to be in one direction.
The most significant event
of the last few weeks was
King Hussein’s decision to
reestablish diplomatic rela-
tions with Egypt. Syria im-
mediately condemned Hus-
sein’s move as treason-
ous and as a first step
toward Jordanian entry into
the Camp David process. On
the other hand, the United
States and Israel both
applauded Hussein’s move.
Yasser Arafat also support-
ed the Jordanian action and
There are other develop-
ments as well. The Israelis
have asked the United
States to serve as their
intermediary with Damas-
cus and have dropped their
demand that the Syrians
withdraw from Lebanon
before they do, a significant
concession. On the Jordan-
ian front, Prime Minister
Peres has been surprisingly
forthright (given his political
situation) about his desire to
reach an agreement with
Hussein. He has even given
a signal to the Palestinian
Arabs by overturning an
order issued by the previous
government which would
have closed down an east
Jerusalem press service
because of its alleged PLO
ties. All of these develop-
ments suggest that the
Middle East pot is stirring
once again.
There is another factor as
well — and it may be the one
giving impetus to the others.
The Reagan Administration
is making it clear (again,
surprisingly, one month
See Monitor page 23
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