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| Spir iro A WASHINGTON — : The 2 hegre lobby. has ai-hew "thatipidht:” thy’ od: friend and former ‘cdteague, novelist” Spiro T. Agnew, Up to-now, antic Israel Tobby : “wad ‘radide? up! “ot ‘these s dissimilar -ebemierta”* ** : GHawkish . columnists and “ons Atabists at the ‘State Depar ent who honestly beliéve that suppott of Israet underminés éur abluence - in’, ee ojl-. strategic Arab world and’ thus is” against America’ 's ‘self. interest; GDovish “writers sand longtipe Jib erals, including . many: Jews, who are uncomfortable. with..-positions. of solidarity and strenath, and who urge. the beleaguered - ‘eraelis , to. adopt: appeasement: “unter the labels of . “accommodation,” oa “Elexibility,” and .. “tisks for peace"; GA Secretary of: State ‘and “his sycophants who: gtind: out propaganda on background to" chastiag ‘Eerael as: “intransipent’ for “hot sup its-: security to “make: s suicktiner: ook * like a peacémaker;* °. ‘ The usual uysortment ‘ot anti- Semites, envidad of tHe stathd exined by many individual “Jews, Ko shure” one conviction: that ‘the’ Jew central and manipulate Afférica, anid are’ ‘the secret’ cause ‘of thost “othet pedple’s individual ‘failures’ ' , To the. ‘head of. this poiwerfuy and. . disparate conglomeration vides Ted” Agnew, plugging his ‘novel; on, media: ; that wants to give “him access so 05 to prove ‘his. accusations. . ‘of. one: sidedness are. wrong, His. mmepsage: | Jews in the modis make, un # “Zionist Leet! 7 CHiSL ; lobby" leading. us. ‘to > disaster. in - the: >, Mideast. rn Boots, AS one who aerote inasy. “gt Mr Agnew’'s speeches. ia, the 1670..cam- paign; as one who aftacked -his prose- cution-by-leak. in , 1973, . -going out on: a limb in this newspaper even.as: be. - was sewing that Jimb‘ off with his “nolo” plea; and as a Jew in. the THE NEW YORK TIMES iJ, Pa ‘By William. ‘Satire. \ “media ‘ today,’ let me offer seine sad ‘reflections, > - The Ted Agnew a 1970 was neither ‘anti-Zionist nof “aetl-Sémitic:“ Ort the | : oontrary? tike most “Nixon: men, he’: ~ shared an admiration for the patridti¢m and courage of the’ Israelis—‘moxie,” - it was then-calied In the Cabinet room “aiand throughout his political career, thany of ‘his associates’ end statt mem- _bers were Jews. # Nor was he anti-initellectual, ts many " liberals'tried to picture him. His blasts” ‘against permissiveness élitism, quotas, and bureaucratic intrusion into indi- vidual lives has been feduced fo slogans ms adopted by most candidates to- y. MF "Agnew: Inbéred aver: thoge nes } gouring more ‘tipaght and __ work: to then than moat fuzzy stamp sacl, aba. ot ale _ Phar turned hin around—Lusineds s ‘associations with the “Arab -worid? 1. “doubt that. Former Agnew statfers'tell, ome His anti-Semitic cracks fidst began © . whea the Jewish: buginessmen he had . known in Baltimore. County - -sought' : _ immunity by turning state’s evidence | “against him, He “became embittered at a handful of Jews, which might well’ ‘have turned him _ Against Jews in gene ‘eral. This new prejudice fitted neatly into. _4n old and fruitful hatred: the media. Mouth- “filling distribee -againgt , the pres (no, I didn’t write those) were What made him famngus; now he has‘a> fresh’ angie, a “newsworthy -sJant Not ~ . only was the media too powerful, .as he has long said, but it is. Jewish-dom- inated. That's how novels -aré publi- -’ -cized.. and disgraced politicians * are able to gét off the defensive. ~~ _ Shrewdly, he points out that his as- gnew. and {he Jews. ve sertion- that Jewsitdominate ‘the media: “and the media dominates Anierica will’ - oget him labeled: a’ ‘bigot, while: he ‘is ~:-vonly ‘trying to. 6@ constrictive. The nan who twiited "Hberals for. anti- +—" “merit affirmative Siction quotas in-1970 - many others wha felt” “now warns of a group whose influence is “fer out of Proportion’? to its num- bers. * Hating individual : “Jews doek not make -you a bigot. Being anti-Israel does not make you a bigot. But under- ‘ taking “a crussde to: peesuade. the ‘-Ametican people that they are being braibished arid manipulated bya ca- ” Bal of Jews who sit astride most of - ‘the channels of: communication, and thereby encouraging an irrational ha- - tred of: ‘maken you-a bigot. : The growing, anti-Israel lobby, most .of which is not bigoted, may be em- ‘barrassed by its new ‘cheerleader. But itw will ‘ah a him ani articulate spokes-_. gry, faliowt ready to: “join” the the chile for. aif the wrong” _- TRASORS. 7 "ihe tragedy of again’ that he had” : the talent and the opportunity to lead thoge angry people, along with a great riess and “untep , toward a satisfying re- spect for law and ‘tradition, toward greater. self-reliance and. more per- sonal freedom, and toward a new sense of: pride and affirmation in interna- ‘tional affairs. Instead, as he has: confessed, "-¢heated oan his taxes. It wasn't “national-impact media” or any Zionist: conspiracy that brought him down: ‘it was only the law. - “That is why It saddens old friends ‘to. -see the former Vice President on television’ these days reduced to the “bitterness of bigoted backhiting. Frus- ‘trated “and vengeful, fe has become what we all once took some joy in deriding: a nattéring nabob of nega- tivism, ‘| | |