From: perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman)
Subject: Re: News from the Israeli press
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:25:09 GMT

In article <1483500307@igc.apc.org> cpr@igc.apc.org (Center for Policy Research) writes:
>
>From: Center for Policy Research <cpr>
>Subject: News from the Israeli press
>
>/* Written  4:57 am  Dec  9, 1992 by cpr@igc.apc.org in igc:talk.politics. */
>/* ---------- "News from the Israeli press" ---------- */
>News from Israel Commented by Elias Davidsson, CPR, Reykjavik,
>Iceland
>
>1. Mr. Chaim Herzog urges Jews to marry among themselves
>
>	 Jerusalem Post 21. Nov. 1992:
>President Chaim Herzog last week told 3000 delegates attending the
>Council of Jewish Federation-s annual General Assembly in New York
>that American Jews- greatest task today is that of Jewish
>education.  He added: "I implore you to stem the tide of
>assimilation, increase the Jewish awareness of your people".
>
>Comment: From the above remarks two lessons can be drawn:
>a. Mr. Herzog does not consider himself the President of all
>Israelis, but only of the Jews. It should be remembered that 18%
>of Israel's citizens are not Jews.

Where does he say this?  First off, let's remember that he does happen
to be a Jew.  And he's speaking in front of the Council of Jewish
Federations, one of the most important Jewish organizations of the
world.  Second, as a Jew, I happen to think he's correct.  Jews aren't
just members of a religion - we're a nation, a people.  We have history,
culture, language - and we do our future generations a great disservice
not to educate them in their people's heritage, just as, say, Mexican-
Americans do their children a disservice if they don't teach them of
their history, culture, and the like.

>b. Mr. Herzog is urging a kind of self-imposed apartheid on U.S.
>citizens, that they withdraw into a kind of Jewish ghetto, by not
>marrying with non-Jews.

Utter balderdash.  First off, *every* religion world-wide prefers that
its members marry within the faith.  Second, he is in no way suggesting
any kind of withdrawal, isolationism, or apartheid self-imposed onto
Jews.  Can anyone tell me where that, or anything like it, exists in Mr.
Herzog's speech?  It doesn't.  This is completely manufactured, and I
think the net deserves a direct apology from Mr. Davidsson for such a
deliberate misrepresentation of Mr. Herzog's words.  Indeed, he is
putting words directly into Mr. Herzog's mouth that he *knows* Mr.
Herzog doesn't believe.

>----------------------------------------
>4.  Christian Zionists flock to Jerusalem
>
>    Jerusalem Post, 24 October 1992
>
>Some 6000 Christian supporters of Israel, a record number,
>gathered in Jerusalem last week to mark the International
>Christian Embassy's annual Feast of Tabernacles.
>
>(...)
>
>The visitors were addressed by Prime Minister Rabin and Jerusalem
>Mayor Teddy Kollek.
>
>"If you help us, we shall together fulfil God's commandment to
>bring Jews to Israel. Our goal is to have seven million Jews here
>by the year 2000" Rabin told the pilgrims. The crowd cheered
>Rabin's statement that "Jerusalem must stay united forever under
>Israeli sovereignty".
>
>(...)
>
>The Finnish branch of the International Christian Embassy also
>plans to present $75.000 to the Jewish Agency for the group's 12th
>chartered planeload of immigrants from the CIS.
>
>Comments:
>a. The International Christian Embassy is not recognized by the
>World Council of Churches.
>b. Mr. Rabin is an atheist but refers to God when needed. See also
>   topic: Rabin's War Crimes.

I urge those interested to laugh at this Mr. Davidsson.  The message to
which he refers was a shameless piece of propaganda, with little factual
backing.  I don't think that Mr. Davidsson wants the current peace
process to work at all.  Indeed, his organization is attacking Mr. Rabin
based to a large extent on works with no credibility (e.g. Palumbo's)
while they ignore far worse abusers (Assad, Arafat, Saddam Hussein, ...
need I go on?)


-- 
"How sad to see/A model of decorum and tranquillity/become like any other sport
A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess"
     Eric S. Perlman 				 <perlman@qso.colorado.edu> 
  Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder