From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Call for a Moratorium on ENVY & RESENTMENT (Was: Re: Say it ain't so)
Summary: Rep. Rangel warns New York Jews against criticizing the Mayor.
Keywords: Zion on Earth
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:33:33 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.

In article <1992Dec18.003559.28805@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com 
(Jake Livni) writes:

>Mayor Dinkin's record in recent weeks have earned him wide criticism
>for misunderstanding Jews and rushing to support Black causes while
>showing characteristic restraint when Koreans/Jews/Whites are unfairly
>treated, especially when these people are attacked by other Blacks.
>If Dinkins isn't anti-Semitic (and he strenuously denies it), then he
>is at the very least biased.  A lot of people have come to this
>unfortunate conclusion recently.   [Jake Livni]

Criticize, criticize, criticize.  That's what New York's Jews have
been doing to Mayor Dinkins lately.  Doesn't anyone remember that
when David Dinkins ran against then-Mayor Ed Koch in the Democratic
primary election, 30% of the Jewish vote went to Mr. Dinkins?

No less of a public figure than United States Representative Charles
Rangel (D. - N.Y.) has about had it with all this New York Jewish
criticism of Mayor Dinkins.  According to the _Jewish Press_ issue
of Friday, December 18, page 1, "Mr. Rangel, who is a member of
Congress recently made a comment to the effect that if the Hasidic
Jews did not stop criticizing his dear friend, the mayor, and if
they played a role in the mayor's re-election defeat, *there will be
a major problem in New York City*."

Is Mr. Jake Livni listening?  Does he want a "major problem" (whatever
that means) in New York City?

>>>"Never again" means something, you know.  A. M. Rosenthal hasn't
>>>apologized for calling the riots in Crown Heights a pogrom and neither
>>>will I.  I notice that you haven't even touched on the abandonment of
>>>the Jews of Brooklyn to rioting mobs but instead propose that my
>>>criticism and fears are inappropriate and unwarranted.  Good grief! 
>>>[Jake Livni, in an earlier article]

More criticism!  According to the _Press_ article, "Mr. Rangel also
commented, 'New Yorkers aren't kind to people who talk differently,
look differently and who don't act like New Yorkers.'"  Mr. Livni
and the other New York Jews have been warned, and by a Congressman,
no less.  How much longer is he going to continue posting articles
to USENET critical of Mayor Dinkins?

>How many Jews have to actually be killed in New York City before you
>decide that "pogrom" is an appropriate term?   [Jake Livni]

Yes, and how many deaths will it take till we learn
that too many people have died?  There's gotta be peace.
The late Congressman, Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Junior,
in his great sermon, "One Day," called for a time when "the
blood of my brother will no longer run in the dark alleyways
of our cities, victims of brutality."  He called for a time
when all of us could "enjoy the sweetness of freedom, here;
there's a Zion on Earth, if we stand together, walk together."

My proposal for peace is an immediate moratorium on
ENVY and RESENTMENT among all groups involved.  We don't
need anyone trying to divide us into "nice people" versus
"slum people."  Former Mayor Koch himself, in a column
reprinted on Page 14 of the December 18 _Jewish Press_,
writes that "Mayor Dinkins has been falsely denounced
as a 'racist,' 'Jew hater,' or 'anti-Semite.'  He is
none of these."

The Good Book says, "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, 
do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who persecute you."
So let's have that moratorium on ENVY and RESENTMENT, starting this
very next Friday, December 25, which is both _Hanukkah_ and _Rosh
Chodesh Teveth_.  And while the moratorium is going on, I invite
Congressman Rangel, as well as the Reverends Sharpton, Daughtry
and Mitchell and (l'havdil!) Rabbis Avi Weiss and Sholom Klass 
(publisher of the _Jewish Press_), to participate in an earnest 
discussion (no flames, please) right here on misc.legal on how 
New Yorkers can return to the days when individuals and groups 
lived together in peace, each under its own vine and fig tree.
Let's start planning how we can have Rev. Powell's "Zion on Earth"
within the Five Boroughs of New York City.

					-- Matt Rosenblatt
                                        (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)

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