Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House meanwhile was barraged with letters. Says Samuel Kaplan, board member of the Zionist Organization of America: "People thought they had seen a Jewish lobby operate before. They haven't seen anything...
...Angeles Democratic Party fund raiser: "There haven't been enough attempts at moderation, and any prodding in that direction by Carter, anything that gets movement, is all to the good." But the critics are more numerous and more impassioned. Recalling that an estimated 65% of the Jewish vote went to Carter, Ford supporter Rabbi Seymour Siegel of the Jewish Theological Seminary notes: "If Carter had said in October what he has been saying this spring, he would not be in the White House. Enough Jews would have voted for Ford to swing New York and perhaps a few other...
...Jewish leaders fear that their cause is not being properly represented. Middle East diplomacy, they complain, is in the hands of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his assistant William Quandt, a specialist in Palestinian affairs. Brzezinski is thought to be pro-Arab-perhaps unfairly-by some supporters of Israel because he was one of the authors of a 1975 Brookings report calling for Israel's withdrawal to its 1967 borders. The two Jewish aides closest to Carter, Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart Eizenstat and White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, are not considered sufficiently attuned to the Jewish community...
Last week the Jewish opposition began to mobilize. A list of 21 grievances against the Carter Administration was circulated on Capitol Hill. The White...
...White House had seen enough and sprang into action. Carter, who had earlier put his chief political fixer, Hamilton Jordan, in charge of Jewish issues, invited key Senators to breakfast to discuss the Middle East. Vice President Walter Mondale was sent to San Francisco to deliver a foreign policy address on the Middle East, stressing the fact that Israel would not be asked to withdraw from its occupied territories until it was assured of "real peace." The President spent 40 minutes with visiting Israeli Rabbi Shlomo Goren. Carter told Goren that he did not expect Israel to return completely...