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January rise
in immigration
to Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA) - A
•light rise in immigration during
January was noted in the
monthly report of the Jewiah
Spotlight On John Lewis
*
The Fifth District election
takes place March IS. In
response to The Southern
Israelite's editorial of February
11, Wyche Fowler, Paul
Coverdell and John Lewis have
agreed to answer three major
questions of Jewish interest.
John Lewis' answer is the last of
the series.
TSI: Where de you stand on
aid to Israel?
LEWIS: First, I support and
applaud President Carter’s
overall objective of decreasing
military sales abroad and
attempting, in concert with
other major world powers, to
hold down the sales of
sophisticated weapons to
developing countries. I believe
their resources are better used
for economic development 'and
food production.
But I am strongly and une
quivocally against unilateral
reduction in the arms available
to Israel or in the state of Israel’s
security. I am committed to
providing Israel whatever aid
she needs to secure her against
aggesssion, be it military or
economic as long as those needs
are substantiated.
Israel is an outpost of
democracy in the Middle East;
she represents the pioneer spirit
upon which the United States
was founded. Assuring the con
tinued strength of Israel is the
only way to counteract the
military buildup — financed
) with petro-dollan and supplied
by the Soviet Union and France
— that is occurring elsewhere in
the Middle East. I believe the
Congress should look closely at
pending plans to supply military
aid to Egypt, to see that we are
not arming both sides of a poten
tial conflict.
Finally, the United States
should continue its efforts
toward a lasting and equitable
peace in the Middle East arising
from direct negotiations
between the parties involved,
recognising that the issue is tru
ly the survival of Israel as an in
dependent state.
TSI: How would you vote on
an anti-boycott bill?
Lewis: Measures to protect
Israel . . . and American Firms
that do business with or in Israel
. . . will be a major issue in the
present Congress. Hearings
were to begin in the U.S. House
in February on anti-boycott
legislation. I would support the
Bingham-Rosenthal bill, which
as it was written is a comprehen
sive means of halting boycott-
related discrimination against
American firms and American
citisens.
The Arab boycott of Israel
takes several forms. First, of
course, is the refusal of Arab
countries to do business with
Israel, and that is a matter that
addresses itself to those coun
tries. But when the Arabs
boycott American firms that do
business with Israel or have
branches there or when the
Arabs tell one American com
pany that it can’t do business
with another American com
pany because it does business
with Israel — that, is in
terference witjb. domestic
American economics and that is
intolerable.
Another form of the boycott is
simple discrimination, in which
Arab nations attempt to exclude
Jews from the ranks of
American talent sent to provide
expertise to Arab countries. I am
familiar with that type of dis
crimination: I like it no better
now than I have in the past.
Any boycott against
Americans or American com
panies by any foreign nation
which places restrictive
covenants on the eoooomie life of
American business is repugnant
to our Constitution and to
morality itself.
TSI: Would you actively pur
sue the freedom of Russian
Jews?
Lewis: All people have fun
damental and universal rights;
these rights are outlined in the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, a document subscribed
to by the Soviet Union at the
Helsinki accords.
The Nixon, Ford, and
Kissinger foreign policy conced
ed, for detente, that the right of
emigration for Soviet Jews was
an ‘'internal matter.” This
violates written binding
agreements and becomes a
__ report of the Jewish
Agency’s immigration depart-
I ’"T’- •' "
I ding In the report, arrivals
I numbered HUH compared to
BHwHBMHHMHHBW I 1506 during January, 157b It
H I wax slightly lower than the
I Januar > figure of 1747
I The number of immigrants
I I mon leased
■ hut there was a small decrease
fi in lhe "umber from all of
f ' ,• Eastern Europe compered to the
J.;' ~■ same month last year The
pW ' Jewish Agency reported that the
m ra,e of noshrim (dropouts)
mill 11 Hit among Soviet Jews who reached
Vienna was 58 percent compared
\ --y {WM to 49.3 percent in 1976. Immigra-
^ tion from other f )arta of the
P^^WmlUnjj world remained stable or show
{ U}.SHH ed an increase. Increases were
v Apil registered among olim from
v South Africa, according to Max
11 Miodownik, chairman of the
\ . ? - Israel branch of the South
African Zionist Federation. He
'U'j; said the Federation offices here
now interview about 200 olim a
week compared to 50 six months
■ Wit 1 ago He said that aliya activities
«'■ to'll have increased to an extent that
lllP’iP r ‘ vat e homes are no longer
adequate to hold meetings.
Niodownik predicted that the
e John Lewis. number of olim from South
zens to emigrate if they so African will reach 1200 this
ose. I support the right of all yew, double last year’s figure,
riet citizens to disagree, But he acknowledged that many
thout harassment, with Jew* emigrated from 8outh
’eminent policy. And I sup- Africa to English-speaking coun-
t the right of all Soviet tries, mainly the U.S. and
zens to worship without Canada, rather than to Israel,
ernment interference. There are about 120,000 Jewa in
do not believe that we can South Africa and about 20,000
Congressional policy to work Israelii currently living there.
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