40th Year of Publication

May 2010—Issue #232 PUBLISHED BY AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL

How Could It Happen? With The Friendly Perversion by David Kirk became the first organization to expose the way the Herbert Zweibon “right thinkers” (in this case Quakers via the American Friends Service Committee) were forfeiting moral American Jews are now in a collective state of credibility through moving into anti-Israel activism. handwringing, asking “How could all this have Since then Human Rights Watch and Amnesty happened? Who could have foreseen this terrible International have followed in those footsteps. downturn of events?” When Israel’s Lebanon War unleashed a With all due respect, we at AFSI forsaw it in torrent of media distortion, AFSI produced a our conferences, on these pages and in the pamphlets documentary by Peter Goldman NBC in Lebanon: A that opposed the anti-Israel left and the dreadful Study of Media Misrepresentation which documented policies of surrender and concessions that were instance after instance of outright lies which were demanded of Israel—and carried out by her leaders. taking their toll on Israel’s case in the general public. Most appalling were the number of ostensible While the Jewish establishment largely ignored us, the “supporters” of Israel who prodded the state to take New York Times’s media critic John Corry, in the so-called “risks for peace” in exchange for a risible Times of February 18th, 1984, had this to say: “The “recognition of her right to exist” by a few Arab tyrants. documentary, judiciously using NBC's own film, The Jewish establishment, the media, and delusional suggests that NBC was indeed taking sides and pacifists fell for this absurdity hook, line and sinker. pressing the viewpoint of the PLO.” With the Camp David Accords, land for AFSI was front and center in denouncing the nothing became the basis for Israeli policy. While Oslo surrender. We did not engage in mealy-mouthed Israelis and American supporters of Israel were still appeals to the PLO to renounce terror and its euphoric about Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem and the genocidal charter. We denounced Oslo because it was signing of pieces of paper with Egypt, we published, in another step in the dismemberment of Israel and 1979, Sadat’s Strategy by Paul Eidelberg, which abrogated Jewish rights. As Israel engaged in exposed Sadat’s strategy as a trap: a temporary truce subsequent retreats with the Wye agreement and the in the framework of a blueprint to reduce Israel to the Gaza withdrawal, we predicted these would lead the untenable 1949 borders, preliminary to her Arabs to the gates of Jerusalem. They are there now. destruction. In Outpost we continually warned that a two In 1977 AFSI published The Palestinians: A state solution meant Israel’s dissolution, that the Political Masquerade by Arthur Kahn and Thomas Moslems would not abandon their jihad and that once Murray emphasizing that the so-called Palestinians Israel was perceived as weak, anti-Semitism would were in fact “an anti-nation, one that derives its entire become viral throughout the world, most especially in meaning and purpose from the desire to destroy a Europe rapidly headed toward Eurabla. “Cassandra another nation.” Says,” in these pages, gives more examples of AFSI’s We were the first to expose the real agenda of visionary warnings. • those purportedly Jewish groups which lent credibility to Israel’s enemies. In 1977 we published Rael Jean Isaac’s monograph on Breira, founded and funded by Table of Contents anti-war, anti Israel, and anti-American activists. In 1987, long before the Jewish treason of J Street, Isaac Cassandra Says ...3 wrote The New (Anti)Jewish Agenda and in 1990, long The Declaration Of Principles by Netta Dor-Shav ...6 before the recent flap in Israel over its activities, AFSI Biden’s Hypocrisy On Jerusalem by Dan Greenfield…8 Britain’s Israel Derangement by Melanie Phillips ...9 published Irving Moskowitz’s The New Israel Fund: A Refuseniks: Heroes Of The Cold War by Ruth King ..10 New Fund for Israel’s Enemies.

From the Editor to the United States he merely strengthened Obama...what happened was wholly predictable. Imposing Israel’s Dissolution Netanyahu was berated by an irate and impatient Obama, and like a chastened and frightened school- Obama is considering imposing a so-called boy hastened to say being beaten up was a salutary American “peace plan.” It is being put together by a experience.” collection of long time foes of Israel, among them Not content with being bullied last September Brent Scowcroft, Gen. Jim Jones and Zbigniew Brzez- Netanyahu returned for yet worse treatment in March. inski. Apparently Obama has grown tired of the effort This time, after failing to extract a written promise by to jump-start negotiations between Israel and Abbas Netanyahu to do as he commanded, Obama literally and wants to end the conflict in one fell swoop. As walked out on Netanyahu at the White House, saying Daniel Greenfield points out, it’s a nicer way of saying he was going to have dinner, and urged him to remain “Destroy Israel.” to consult with his advisers and “let me know if there is There can be little doubt that any Obama plan anything new,” i.e. if he had decided to cave in. would be a Munich-in-the-making. He can be thwarted This episode also hurt Netanyahu at home. if there is sufficient resistance from Israel and from the Haaretz seized on his humiliation to declare “The American Jewish community which, if it mobilized, Prime Minister leaves America disgraced, isolated and could muster substantial support from evangelical altogether weaker than when he came.” Christians and from Congress. Netanyahu would be better off urging Obama to visit Israel when he had anything new to offer— A Pathetic AIPAC something other than Israeli concessions. The outlook for vigorous confrontation of the administration is thus far not hopeful. When Hillary Clinton addressed the annual AIPAC convention Upending Israel-U.S. Relations (these are the folks supposedly most committed to Obama has blocked all major Israeli weapons Israel’s welfare) she received a standing ovation. This requests while freely providing advanced weapons to despite the fact that she excoriated Netanyahu over the Arabs. Case in point: JINSA (Jewish Institute for the Jerusalem housing project (a “crisis” manufactured Natioanl Security Affairs) reports that Israel’s request by Obama). When she had a word of blame for the for 4D Apache Longbow attack helicopters was Arab side, it was for Hamas, which she condemned for blocked at the very same time the administration ap- dedicating the town square in Ramallah to a killer of proved the sale to Egypt of those same helicopters. dozens of Israeli civilians. Only trouble is that it was Fatah (which can do no wrong in the lights of the Roepke on Israel Obama administration) which dedicated the square to No, Wilhelm Roepke was writing in 1948 a Fatah killer, a problem Hillary neatly resolved by about prescient 19th century thinkers who foresaw the transporting Ramallah to Gaza, an absurdity so trans- crises of the twentieth century but the words (we parent it’s a wonder she had the nerve to pull it off. quote from J.R. Nyquist’s summary) certainly apply to As attendee Matthew Hausman points out, it Israel (and the U.S.): “It appears that in all great crises was only after the fact that AIPAC offered any criti- of world history most people utterly deceive them- cism. The time for meaningful rebuke passed the mo- selves as to where they stand...an optimistic self de- ment she left the room. Hausman notes that what ception prevails...How slowly we grasp the meaning of AIPAC should have done was have a representative facts. How tenaciously we struggle against a dis- stand up immediately and address Clinton’s misstate- agreeable awakening. How unready we are to admit ments point by point and then have her reactions re- that we have built our society upon an ava- corded on videotape. lanche.” •

Netanyahu, Stay Home Outpost Netanyahu decided to skip his scheduled trip Editor: Rael Jean Isaac to Washington to attend a nuclear security conference Editorial Board: Herbert Zweibon, Ruth King hosted by Obama. Although the conference was billed as dealing with the problem of preventing the Outpost is distributed free to spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist groups, Members of Americans For a Safe Israel Netanyahu feared that it would turn into a gang-up on Annual membership: $50. Israel to demand that it sign the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Americans For a Safe Israel In fact, as long as Obama remains President, 1751 Second Ave. (at 91st St.) Netanyahu is best off staying clear of the United New York, NY 10128 States. In the October 2009 Outpost we urged tel (212) 828-2424 / fax (212) 828-1717 Netanyahu to stay home. We wrote then: “By coming E-mail: afsi @rcn.com web site: http://www.afsi.org Outpost 2 May 2010

Cassandra Says

(Below are samples of AFSI’s record on the failed and phony “peace processes” on which Israel has engaged over the last 40 years—what we said at the time, not in the rear mirror.)

From Sadat’s Strategy by Paul Eidelberg rally support around themselves and against Egypt, (pamphlet published by AFSI, 1979) whose position of traditional leadership of the Arab world has so far been hard for the other to challenge. That the goal [eliminating Israel] had not changed, merely the desirable method of achieving it, From “The Shame of the Jews” Herbert Zweibon, was emphasized by Sadat once again in September Outpost, October 1993 1977 [in an interview in October magazine] only weeks before his visit to Jerusalem: “The October War Only a few have raised their voices against [of 1973] was only the spark that set off the conflict—a the mindless euphoria [over the Declaration of Princi- conflict that is as old as the Arab nation. This conflict ples between Israel and the PLO], and they have spo- started when we fought against the Tatars, and later, ken of the strategic mistake Israel is making. But for the Crusaders, in defense of our rights, land and Jews who care about their people the prime emotion honor. Today we are fighting against Zionism in de- must be shame. September 13, when Israel's leaders fense of our land and values…. They are all links in signed an agreement with Arafat, while American Jew- the same chain. Therefore we must prepare ourselves ish leaders eagerly danced attendance, is a date for a prolonged conflict and all its relevant aspects.” which will live in infamy. A great people prostrated it- The next stage in that conflict, for Sadat, was self before a bankrupt thug. A people priding itself on the Jerusalem “peace initiative.” In his Knesset speech its moral sensitivity committed an act of ultimate im- he laid down the peace terms—from which he has morality, deliberately bestowing legitimacy on a mass never since deviated: that Israel return to the borders murderer. As long as the Jewish people lives, this of 1949 and set up a Palestinian state in the West shame will adhere to them. bank and Gaza (including East Jerusalem). Upon re- turning home, he said in an interview for October From “Israel in the Borders of 1949: Then and magazine, “We must take what we can get as a Now” Rael Jean Isaac, Outpost, October 1993 means for taking all that we want.” Those who had followed Sadat’s earlier remarks prior to his trip could Many of those who are appalled by the actions scarcely be in doubt as to what he meant by “all that of the Labor government seek consolation by telling we want.” themselves: "After all, what will be different from the Without in any way abandoning his long-range situation prior to 1967? Israel survived in those bor- goal, Sadat was able to count major accomplishments ders, and, when necessary, conquered the territories from his trip to Jerusalem. Indeed Sadat has managed she now relinquishes: she can do the same thing to win the world’s accolades as a great peace-maker again if she must, and will thus be no worse off than without once using the word ‘peace’ on his trip. He she was thirty years ago." Unfortunately this is not used in his speech over and over again the word true: Israel today, in the pre-1967 lines (or close to “salaam” which was translated as “peace” but which them), will be far worse off, politically, militarily, and means nothing more than non-belligerence. Salaam perhaps most important of all, psychologically…. was Sadat’s code message to the Arab world that he The altered political landscape will inescapa- would never make Sulh, that is, real peace, with Israel. bly lead to new territorial demands upon Israel. Gaza Nonetheless Sadat was able to disarm and divide Is- will now be part of the same political entity as Judea rael and neutralize the United States—remarkable ac- and Samaria. There will have to be some way for the complishments indeed…. parts of the new state to link up with one another: it It may of course be asked why, If Sadat is car- cannot be long before corridors through what is now rying out the pan-Arab goal of Israel’s destruction, Israeli territory are demanded by Arafat (or whoever there has been so much hostility toward the initiative in heads the new Palestinian state)…. the Arab world….The very intensity of Arab hatred and The psychological situation is the most seri- the lack of sophistication of the Arab masses makes it ous, because an Israel which is divided, demoralized, difficult to accept and make understandable a subtle and has deliberately forfeited the legitimacy of its claim strategy of game-playing, maneuvering and carrying a to the Land of Israel will not be able to muster the in- ball around opponents. Once a peace offensive is in ternal strength and will to defend itself against ever full swing, the goal can only be hinted, no longer more powerful and determined enemies stated baldly. In addition, inter-Arab rivalry for leader- (psychologically reinvigorated by the moral and politi- ship of the Arab world makes even Arab leaders who cal weakness Israel manifests). understand what Sadat is trying to do take advantage True, Israel did not possess the core religious of the inevitable ambiguities of his overt position to historical areas of its ancient homeland prior to 1967.

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Nor would it have initiated war to obtain them. But the handshake, polls in Israel showed a majority opposed sense of historic entitlement remained, not just within to the agreement with Arafat. How could they fail to do the Herut Party (the claim was an integral part of its so? He was the arch-fiend, confined by circumstance electoral platform from the outset of the state) but also to random murder of innocents, but dedicated to the in sections of Labor (notably the Ahdut Ha'avoda death of the state and its Jewish inhabitants. movement) and the religious parties. From now on But with the handshake, as the world watched, Israel will have forfeited its historic claim, severing its Arafat, like the snake shedding his skin, gave the illu- connection to the Land of Israel….If Jews have no sion he had cast off his evil essence…. claim to the highlands of ancient Israel, to Hebron, But the handshake was something more. It Shiloh, and the Old City of Jerusalem, why should they was a culmination of a campaign of lies. After the Six claim the Philistine coast? For Israelis, the question Day War of 1967, when the Arabs recognized that the "By what right do we exert sovereignty on this land?" prolonged pan-Arab assault won Israel world sympa- will become more, not less, thy, they redefined the con- difficult to answer…. flict. No longer was it be- What makes the La- tween Israel and Arab states, bor government's actions but between Israel and "the potentially most psychologi- Palestinians." The PLO, cally devastating is that there crowned as "the sole legiti- has been no transformation mate representative" of this of Arab attitudes toward Is- freshly fabricated people, rael since 1967….[W]ith the now claimed that it was not growth of Islamic fundamen- the Jews but the Arabs who talism, hatred of Israel has had been persecuted and only become more virulent. oppressed, not the Jews but (Lest anyone cite Egypt as a the Arabs who were without a supposed exception, only homeland. Iran can rival it as the center of anti-Zionist and anti- While their minions murdered, the PLO cov- Semitic propaganda in the world.) ered their tracks with moral makeovers and pious Nothing has changed in the Arab world since preaching for an end to Israeli occupation. Out of myth 1974 when Yasser Arafat decided that rather than in- and mist they created the Palestinian whose identity sisting that Israel had to be eliminated in one blow (a was strikingly similar to that of the Jew. And what of view to which Hamas still clings), the PLO should pur- the Jew? He became the Nazi. The propaganda suc- sue a phased plan for Israel's destruction. Following ceeded, not least by weakening the will to resist of this strategy, the PLO would accept whatever land it many Jews both in Israel and the Diaspora…. could get and use it as a dagger against what was left And so, with the handshake, Rabin proclaimed of Israel. The plan was first urged upon the Arabs by his willingness to abandon Jewish identity, Jewish na- Tunisia's President Bourgiba in the 1950s and at the tional rights, Jewish raison d'etre to the Palestinians, a time he was denounced for his pains. In the Arab way, paper people. Arafat has been perfectly open about his strategy and remains so today. From “Israeli Arab (Dis)Loyalty” Erich Isaac, Out- Thus the only change has been in Israel, post, May 1995 whose leaders have abandoned all the tenets central to former governments, including Labor governments. It was never easy to be an Arab in Israel, but But if nothing has changed except in Israel, Israel is Israel’s government is making the Arab community making peace with itself. This is how the men of into a fifth column. Thirty years ago, when few thought Chelm would go about making peace. about the problem, Azaria Allon, a prominent environ- mentalist, wrote in the Labor newspaper Lamerhav of the difficult choices faced by Israeli Arabs. There was “The Handshake” David Isaac, Outpost. Dec. 1993 no such thing as an Israeli nation. There was Israeli citizenship, but in terms of nationality, one could be "Now join your hands, and with your hands, either Jewish or Arab. Israel was a Jewish state and your hearts." With this line, Shakespeare reveals the the Arabs were a minority who could not identify with potency of a handshake. It is a symbol of friendship, of the values of the majority—neither its language, its common cause, of shared fate. Or in the case of Is- history or its holidays. rael, a sealed fate. For by shaking hands with Arafat That left the Arab with three choices: to accept on a world stage, Rabin transformed Arafat from pa- the state, even if reluctantly, as a reality; to leave; or to riah to partner, and symbolically transferred to him the negate the state and seek to contribute to its destruc- age-old rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Is- tion…. rael. Allon pointed out in 1966 that the majority of Until that White House ceremony and that Israeli Arabs were on the fence and whatever their

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feelings, abstained from taking any active role in seek- From “The Missing Moral Dimension” by Roger A. ing to negate the state. But he pointed out that this Gerber, Outpost June 2005 could change if circumstances changed. The circumstances have indeed changed in The controversial “disengagement” plan pro- ways Allon could not have imagined…What the gov- posed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has precipitated, ernment will achieve—indeed to a large extent has in the words of Yossi Klein Halevi, “one of the most already accomplished—is to push Israel’s substantial severe domestic crises in Israeli history”….[A]nalysts Arab minority off the fence into the arms of militant typically focus on the security, geostrategic, economic, Islam, into the ranks of those prepared to act to negate and political ramifications of Sharon’s plan [to leave the existence of the state. Gaza] but omit the attendant burning moral issues. Yet it is the moral dimension that accounts for the depth From “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, Midge and intensity of the passions that have been aroused Decter, Outpost May 1996 by the plan that Sharon conceived, as he recounted to William Safire, “in consultation with myself.” The second thing that went wrong was that Under what moral or legal principle does a the State of Israel gave birth far too early to a profes- democratic government expel by force from their sional, literary intelligentsia. This may sound facetious homes and businesses 25 communities populated by or flippant. It is not….A country only half a century old its own citizens for the sole reason that they are Jew- is not supposed to have a full fledged accomplished ish? Pursuant to what principle does the government literary intelligentsia. Technicians? Yes. Men of enter- tell the citizens of Kfar Darom who reside on former prise? Yes. Adventurers? Yes. Soldiers? Yes. Scien- swamp land purchased almost a century ago, that they tists? Indeed, yes. But writers worthy of meriting inter- are to be forcibly evicted? .[T]his plan strikes at the national fame and regard? This is an extravagance heart of basic moral codes, both Jewish religious and only an old and stable country should be allowed to secular Zionist imperatives…. indulge in. For the price of admission to international Sharon’s firing of ministers who indicated that literary fame, particularly for writers from small and far- they would vote against his “disengagement” plan in off countries, is the capacity to transcend one’s own the cabinet, his insistence upon a Likud party plebi- narrow interests and to expose the foibles of one’s scite which he pledged to honor when it appeared he own small parish. There are times and places and cir- would win and then promptly ignored when he lost cumstances in which Nobel prizes are just too overwhelmingly, his refusal to conduct a referendum, costly….. In the end, what their country is really guilty his failure to explain to the nation the reasons and of in the eyes of Israel’s upper intelligentsia is simply goals of his traumatic plan, his incitement to violence Zionism—mere, as they might put it, mere parochial by describing Israel as on the verge of a civil war, his nationalism. delegitimization of the respected Likud leader and What a joke. What a fantastic, terrible, bitter Knesset member Uzi Landau and other opponents as joke. The idea that the Jews must be a transcendent “extremists” for basically taking the same position he people is an idea born precisely from Diaspora power- took in the national election less than two years previ- lessness. Thus, Israel’s beautiful people have brought ously, and his callous disregard of the trampling on the themselves from galut back to galut in less than 75 rights of citizens of Israel who disagree with his with- years. That is why the country is now suing for peace drawal and expulsion plan, have seriously diminished with those committed to wiping it out. It is because the the ethos of democracy in the State of Israel. disapproval and the dark looks of the world outside are too much to bear that the head of Israel’s government From “In Pursuit of False Messiahs” by William pronounces grandly about something called a New Mehlman, Outpost November 2005 Middle East. The powerless indulge in fantasies of escape. That is why Israelis daydream of peace with In Israel, the land that gave birth to messian- Syria, to be guaranteed, of all sad things, by American ism, the most recent and durable in the long line of peacekeepers. It is because the obsequious seek an bright, glowing messianic frauds is something called intercessor, what in the shtetl they used to call a the “peace process.” Its relentless promotion by a fa- shtadlan—someone to protect their interests from the natical elite fixed on the notion that peace with an Arab hands of the mighty. world openly dedicated to the termination of Jewish The Israelis have been called upon to be national existence will flow from the systematic surren- brave beyond the imaginings of other nations. And der of Israel’s material and strategic assets and the they have responded and responded and are tired. creation of an enemy state within its borders must They are entitled to be. But when they say they must surely rank as the chef-d’oeuvre of all Jewish messi- have peace, for “What is the alternative?” they are anic delusions. Among the blessings it has already speaking not the language of Zion but the language of conferred on us is suicide bombings, rocket bombard- those who have given up, or are in the process of giv- ments, a 50,000 man Palestinian army equipped with ing up, on Zion. There will be no peace in these times everything from Kalashnikovs to Sagger anti-tank mis- except at the price of Zion. siles, the loss of control over nearly 40 percent of the

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West Bank, the ruination of 25 Jewish communities Israel represents the successful national liberation of a and the lives of their 10,000 inhabitants in Gaza and dhimmi civilization. On a territory formerly Arabized by northern Samaria and the creeping demoralization of the jihad and the dhimma, a pre-Islamic language, cul- the IDF, increasing numbers of which are no longer ture, topographical geography and national institutions sure what they’re supposed to be fighting for. have been restored to life…In 1974, Abu Iyad, second- Unsullied by so much as a hint of peace, the in-command to Arafat in the Fatah hierarchy, an- “peace process” has written a new chapter in Arab nounced: ‘We intend to struggle so that our Palestinian anti-Semitism, historical revisionism and undisguised homeland does not become a new Andalusia.’ The bloodlust…And every fresh Israeli concession adds comparison of Andalusia to Palestine was not fortui- gasoline to the fire. tous since both countries were Arabized, and then de- Even as it threatens to burn the ground be- Arabized by a pre-Arabic culture.” neath their feet, the instigators of this conflagration As Bat Y’eor predicted when she coined the seem deaf to all but the tinkling bells of their messianic term Eurabia, Western European culture is now being mirage and the flattering “right-ons” of American and gradually subjected to sharia law and Moslem de- European claques to whom Jewish national existence mands. has as much value as a pawn in a chess game. For decades Israel and its Western allies con- If there is anything to be drawn from this mes- centrated on the Cold War, with Israel seen as a bul- sianic madness, it must surely be the tragic realization wark to thwart Soviet ambition. That role vanished with that with the fulfillment of the “peace process,” the the fall of the Berlin Wall. The West ignored the grow- string of Jewish false messiahs will finally have run its ing aggressiveness of Islam, fueled by the wealth of oil course. So, in all likelihood, will the history of the Third producing Arab states…And it failed to see that Israel Jewish Commonwealth. There is still time to write an- is a bulwark in the existential battle of the century— other ending to this story, but not much. Islam against the infidel world. Geography has dictated that Israel lives in the From “It Was Never About Borders” Ruth King, belly of the Moslem Arab beast and because of its Outpost, April 2006 large and potentially seditious Arab population, the beast also lives in Israel’s belly. The failure to under- The scholar Bat Ye’Or, a Zeev Jabotinsky of stand jihad is Israel’s most colossal—it may well be our time, understood that the Arab war against the fatal—blunder. • Jews of Palestine was always a jihad. She warned: “…

The Probable Consequences of Im- herents of the agreement—to feelings of guilt, loss and depression. plementing the “Declaration of Prin- This depression, however, will not compare to ciples” the much more serious depression and despair among Netta Kohn Dor-Shav those who experience giving up parts of Eretz Yisrael as the ultimate betrayal, the ultimate separation, the (There were some in Israel who foresaw clearly what would ultimate loss. For them this will be not only loss of the happen in the wake of the “Declaration of Principles on In- beloved homeland but also loss of the Zionist dream terim Self-Government Arrangements” as the Oslo Accords with which they identified, for which they were willing were initially known. Dor-Shav, an Israeli psychologist, to fight and die. It will be loss of their raison d’etre. wrote this essay focusing on the psychological impact of the These people will feel helpless and impotent, beyond Accords not long after they were signed.) despair. They will become alienated; they will no longer feel part of the body politic; they will feel es- Those who have taken a pro-Oslo stance can tranged from the government and that part of the citi- be expected to start out with a sense of achievement, zenry which supported what they perceive as a de- a sense of victory. However, very soon, especially structive, wanton, auto-castration. Serious unrest and after the inevitable complications, the inevitable vio- civil strife cannot be ruled out. lence, the inevitable unreasonableness of the Arab Massive yerida [out-migration], especially by partners come to the fore, we shall see more and those who come from Western countries, can be ex- more of what we, in psychology, call post-decision dis- pected as well as alienation from all institutions in the sonance, i.e. the dissonance that emerges when, hav- country, including the army. ing made a decision, one has to live with it and doesn’t For the first time Zahal [Israel Defense Forces] necessarily like it. It is the time when the negative ef- will have ceased to be a transcendent value not only fects of the decision become all too apparent and the for the effete prima-donnas of Ramat Aviv, but also for positive aspects of the options rejected appear more that cadre of dedicated nationalists who helped to attractive than ever. win the last three wars and had hoped to win a genu- The increased violence and sense of loss for ine and proud peace. what was given up will inevitably lead—even for ad- For the Jews of the diaspora, those who are May 2010 6 Outpost

committed, those who care, the world will never be the us, Israeli Arabs as well as those of the “Autonomy”, same. The pride, the identification, the feeling of safety will become impossible to live with; many leftists will and security that the existence of the State of Israel come to rue the day they supported the present plan. brought to the diaspora, will cease. The proud, “new” It will be impossible to establish and maintain the post World War II Jew of Israel will have been van- much touted du kiyyum (coexistence) with the Arabs, quished. Having won four wars for survival, he will because their arrogance and their demands will be- have put his own survival in question. His brothers come intolerable. They will try to act as lords over us abroad too will begin to hang their heads in shame and Jews will become increasingly placating and sub- again. servient. For, as psychological studies have shown, As a result of Oslo, Jews will have to face in- the Arab is characterized by what is known as the creased anti-Semitism the world over. Peres’ fantasy “authoritarian personality”—one which knows not of acceptance and integration in the Middle East and equality, but rather either authoritarian submission or in Europe is just that—a fantasy. By acknowledging authoritarian aggression, superiority and domination. Arab rights in Eretz Yisrael, Peres will have put more Therefore, as we will have ceased to be perceived as than a question mark on our superior, as on the ascendancy, own. Denying our sovereignty, as bosses, we will be expected denying its historical basis, reli- As a result of Oslo, Jews to submit to Arab superiority, to gious and national, betraying become subservient to Arab the sacrifices of those who will face increased anti- masters. fought, bled and died here, Semitism the world over. The loss of self-esteem, Peres says to the world: this is the loss of self-confidence, the not our land; let’s split it; let’s feelings of helplessness that will make a deal. By doing this he delegitimizes our re- ensue will add to the causes of depression cited ear- turn, our successful national liberation movement lier and increase the danger to our survival by yet an- which reclaimed our ancient homeland. Instead he other factor. validates the Arab claim that we are simply refugees As for the Arabs of the surrounding countries, from Europe, a Western problem. they will see in our capitulation a victory of Arab na- Peres transforms us from a proud people- tionalism, of fanatical Islam. Their appetite for hegem- come-home to itinerant mendicants seeking shelter ony will be whetted, not sated, and Arab countries can and suffrage. He mocks our strength and our valor, be expected to unite for a “final solution” of the Israeli makes us again dependent upon the nations, seeking problem—with over two million Arabs well-placed as a favor from them. He makes a mockery of the redemp- fifth column to facilitate their enterprise. tion “from shoa to t’kuma” and again makes room for These predictions are frightening, the more so the thesis that the Jews got what they deserved, i.e. as it is apparent that those who are making decisions reestablishes balance for those who cannot accept the for us today are oblivious to the foreseeable conse- Jew on the ascendant, the Jew victorious, the Jew quences of their acts. asserting his rights. Now, again, the Jew will have Author’s comment: Much of this has come to been humbled, will have “gotten his come-uppance.” pass, most obvious, the prediction of increased anti- He will have capitulated, his illegitimate tenure as sov- Semitism worldwide. But what has also been fulfilled ereign in this land will have come to an end. For al- is the prediction of depression and despair, feelings of though technically the state might still be holding on to helplessness and impotence, which help to explain the some small part of Eretz Yisrael, we will no longer be lack of effort, action and mobilization that sadly char- sovereign in our homeland. acterize the Israeli “right” today. In addition the predic- The world, too, can be expected to react to the tion of increased aggression within our society has implementation of the agreement—perhaps after a unfortunately come to pass as evidenced in greater short pro forma honeymoon period in which we will be criminal and intra-family violence. • praised for our “sacrifices” as we were praised for our “restraint” during the Gulf War—with a resurgence of international anti-Semitism, anti-Judaism and anti- Zionism. Having delegitimized ourselves as a nation, AFSI Books (postage included in price) we will be seen as a legitimate target. Rabin, Peres and Beilin et al. are playing into The Jewish Wars—Reflections By One Of The the hands of Israel’s worst enemies, on the one hand Belligerents by Edward Alexander—special price: making it easier for the Arab enemy to plan an attack $10.00. from a much better position and on the other providing ammunition for attacks on our legitimacy and integrity Order from: as a nation and as a people. Americans For A Safe Israel As for the potential response of the Arabs, 1751 Second Ave (at 91st Street) here again one needs to look separately at those New York, N.Y. 10128 among us and those without our gates. Those among May 2010 7 Outpost

The Full Measure of Joe Biden's Hypocrisy on Jerusalem Daniel Greenfield

Not that long ago, Joseph Robinette Biden been by Israel during the past twenty-five years; and was supposedly gravely insulted by Israel announcing (3) calls upon the President and the Secretary that potential housing to be built in Jerusalem had of State to issue an unequivocal statement in support passed one stage of a multi-stage approval process. of these principles. Biden was so insulted by this dastardly act that he So in 1992, Biden "strongly believed" that Je- stood up the Prime Minister of Israel for 90 minutes rusalem should be Israel's undivided capital and even and then he and various Obama Administration offi- wanted the President to issue an "unequivocal state- cials proceeded to lambaste Israel for "insulting" Bi- ment" in support of that. Fast forward a bit and Biden den. is supposedly gravely insulted be- Hillary Clinton proclaimed: "It cause Israel believes unequivocally was not only an insult to Biden, but an that Jerusalem is its undivided capital. insult to the United States." "There Now certainly Senator Biden was an affront, it was an insult," twice co-sponsored resolutions and huffed senior Obama advisor David bills that proclaimed Jerusalem to be Axelrod. Hundreds of newspapers Israel's undivided capital. But he penned editorials denouncing Israel's couldn't for the love of god have done grave insult. The essence of it was it three times? Or could he have? that Israel had insulted Biden by lay- In 1990 Senator Joseph ing claim to Jerusalem during his visit. Robinette Biden co-sponsored Senate There's just one problem with Netanyahu with Biden Concurrent Resolution 106 which this. In 1995 Biden himself served as a co-sponsor of stated: “Whereas ambiguous statements by the Gov- S. 1322, known as the Jerusalem Embassy Act. ernment of the United States concerning the right of (Additional Senate co-sponsors included such obscure Jews to live in all parts of Jerusalem raise concerns in legislators as John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Israel that Jerusalem might one day be redivided and Jesse Helms, John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, Strom access to religious sites in Jerusalem denied to Israeli Thurmond and Bob Dole.) Let's look at the text of the citizens; and Whereas such concerns inhibit and com- Jerusalem Embassy Act. plicate the search for a lasting peace in the region: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the Statement of The Policy Of The United House of Representatives concurring), That the Con- States: gress-- (1) Jerusalem should remain an undivided city (1) acknowledges that Jerusalem is and in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group should remain the capital of the State of Israel; are protected; (2) strongly believes that Jerusalem must re- (2) Jerusalem should be recognized as the main an undivided city in which the rights of every eth- capital of the State of Israel; nic religious group are protected; and So if we believe the White House, in 1995 (3) calls upon all parties involved in the search Senator Biden co-sponsored a bill in which he laid out for peace to maintain their strong efforts to bring about a Statement of the Policy of the United States as that negotiations between Israel and Palestinian represen- of an "Undivided Jerusalem," that is the undivided tatives. capital of the State of Israel, but in 2010 that same Now just so we're keeping track, Biden co- Biden was gravely insulted by a potential Israeli hous- sponsored three Senate resolutions, all three of which ing project in Jerusalem. insisted that Jerusalem should remain Israel's undi- But surely that was an accident. After all, Bi- vided capital and one of which insisted that it was vital den might not have known what resolution he was ac- for the peace process that Jerusalem should be af- tually co-sponsoring. Except that in 1992 Biden also firmed by U.S. policy as Israel's undivided capital. served as co-sponsor of Senate Consecutive Resolu- So naturally, like any good politician, he was tion 113. It states: insulted by Israel taking him at his word. To argue that “Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate Biden was gravely insulted by Israel is to argue that he (the House of Representatives concurring), that the was insulted by the policies he himself supported. Not Congress: just passively supported, but co-sponsored in three (1) congratulates the residents of Jerusalem Senate resolutions which repeatedly stated that these and the people of Israel on the twenty-fifth anniversary were meant to be the policy of the United States. of the reunification of that historic city; But of course the hypocrisy train doesn't stop (2) strongly believes that Jerusalem must re- at Joe Biden Station. Hillary Clinton, who claimed that main an undivided city in which the rights of every eth- Israeli housing "was not only an insult to Biden but an nic and religious group are protected as they have insult to the United States,” in 2007 issued a paper

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stating "Hillary Clinton believes that Israel's right to "cohesive and coherent" might mean as applied to a exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible bor- city, that made it a safe statement to make. ders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure So to sum up, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and from violence and terrorism, must never be ques- even Obama were enthusiastic supporters of an tioned." "Undivided Jerusalem" not too long ago, but in the And barely two and a half years later, Hillary spring of 2010 they were gravely insulted because Clinton is vocally doing the Israel moved housing in Jerusa- questioning. And the woman lem to be built on deserted land who not that long ago said that Either an "undivided Jeru- through one stage of a multi- an "undivided Jerusalem" must salem" is a grave insult to stage approvals process while never be questioned was pre- the United States—in Biden happened to be in the tending that Israel approving country. housing in Jerusalem was a which case Joe Biden, Now this dog just won't grave insult to the U.S. Hillary Clinton and Obama hunt. Either an "undivided Jeru- The question must then have all insulted the salem" is a grave insult to the be asked, if Joe Biden and U.S.—or they are com- United States and completely Hillary Clinton supported an destructive of the peace proc- undivided Jerusalem and if Is- pletely shameless liars. ess—in which case Joe Biden, raeli housing projects in Jerusa- Hillary Clinton and Obama have lem are an insult to the United all insulted the United States States, weren't Hillary and Joe insulting the United and are destructive of the peace process—or they are States? Or were they just insulting the Jewish voters completely shameless liars and hypocrites. who believed their empty promises? Just to close off this sad chapter with one But the "insults" don't stop there. In 2008 more stop for the Hypocrisy Express at Joe Biden Sta- Obama gave a speech in which he said, "Jerusalem tion, let's tune in to Joe Biden circa 2001. will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain un- “Why is it that the one ally we have in that part divided." To be fair to Obama, he didn't waste too of the world [Israel], that we have the right to publicly much time divorcing himself from the statement he chastise them? We would not do that with any other had just made. It actually took him only a day to ex- friend … As much as the Middle East is always on our plain that he actually supported dividing Jerusalem, he minds, the best thing we can do is keep it off the U.S. just didn't want it divided by barbed wire. No, seriously. and world press.” Biden said that criticism “emboldens “You know, the truth is that this was an example those in the Middle East and around the world who still where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And harbor as their sacred goal the elimination of Israel … we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that It is not for you to tell them [Israel], nor for me, what is was given. The point we were simply making was, is in their best interests. We should give them the right to that we don’t want barbed wire running through Jeru- determine what chances they will take.” salem, similar to the way it was prior to the ‘67 war, Fast forward to 2010 where under the guid- that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is ance of Barack Hussein Obama, Biden staged a very cohesive and coherent.” loud and public bashing of Israel. After a prolonged study by experts in seman- One is reminded of the question, how can you tics, it turns out that Obama felt that "undivided Jeru- tell when a politician is lying? Easy, his lips are mov- salem" was subject to all sorts of misinterpretations, ing. such as it being undivided, when he actually meant that it should be cohesive and coherent. Unlike Daniel Greenfield blogs as Sultan Knish. This ap- Obama himself. Since no one knows what in the world peared on his blog on March 31.

Israel Derangement Syndrome rael-basher and Martin Linton, chairman of Labour Friends of Palestine—claimed that the Conservative Melanie Phillips party was in hock to both the Jews generally and Is- rael in particular. The Telegraph headlined its story: While Obama has opened the global flood- “’Labour MPs accuse Tories of being too close to Is- gates of Israel-bashing, in Britain it is now open sea- rael” but what they actually said was much worse. son on Israel and the Jews who defend it—with other Kaufman said that Lord Ashcroft, the wealthy Tory do- Jews hostile to Israel often in the front-line of the nor, owned one part of the party and “Jewish million- charge. What is happening is both hideous and, quite aires” the other. In other words, Jews had bought the simply, beyond reason. It amounts to a fanatical and Tory party. Linton, meanwhile, told a meeting at the obsessive verbal pogrom. House of Commons: “There are long tentacles of Is- Item: in the Telegraph, two Labour MPs—Sir rael in this country who are funding election cam- Gerald Kaufman, a veteran and poisonous Jewish Is-

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paigns and putting money into the British political sys- referred in his Commons statement to the plight of the tem for their own ends.” British passport-holder whose identity was used in the The word “tentacles,” from which Linton later Dubai killing and who went to bed as an Israeli citizen tried to distance himself, is of course straight out of the “only to wake up as a wanted terrorist?” When a Brit- medieval and Nazi lexicon of Jew-hatred. Linton’s ish Foreign Secretary equates a terrorist mass mur- comments echo the ugly “Jewish conspiracy” theory derer with those who rid the world of such a menace, it aired on primetime British TV recently in Peter is but a short step to sanitising the mass murderer and Oborne’s Dispatches programme, in which he claimed denouncing his victims. Which is precisely what has that wealthy Jewish supporters of Israel had bought up happened in Britain. and suborned the Tory party. Like all “Jewish conspir- In his article, Ingrams foamed on: “What this acy” theories, this one flies in the face of demonstrable amounts to is that these people are proud to be friends reality, since the Tory front bench is mostly indifferent of a country that operates a system of apartheid in to, disdainful of or even hostile towards the State of territory which it has illegally occupied and colonised, Israel. that subjects the people who live in that territory to Item: as the veteran intolerable restrictions, that ultra-leftist and Israel-basher thinks nothing of killing large Tony Greenstein boasts on his When the British Foreign numbers of them, including blog, anti-Israel bigots dis- Secretary equates a mass women and children, to punish rupted a performance of the them for daring to launch rock- Jerusalem Quartet at London’s murderer with those who ets and that continually lies Wigmore Hall this week— with rid the world of such a about its actions as it does the result that BBC Radio menace, it is but a short about the criminal activities of Three terminated its live step to sanitising the mass Mossad.” broadcast of the concert. Once, this would have There is only one way to de- murderer and denouncing been considered the ravings of scribe the mindset of these his victims. a lunatic, since it denies real- bullies who compare Israelis— ity–not to mention morality-- who bear arms solely to pre- with virtually every word. Yet vent themselves from being wiped out—to Nazis, and now it is mainstream. In Britain, anti-Israel bigotry and describe Israel--whose Arab citizens have equal Jew-hatred have gone viral. rights—as an “apartheid state,” and that is twisted and Item: the explosion of racist bile on the read- sick. As for BBC Radio Three, it was cowardly to have ers’ thread on the Guardian’s “Comment is Free blog” aborted its broadcast and thus surrendered to thug- below Stephen Pollard’s article, which pointed out that gery and bigotry. the outrage over the Israeli building permits in a Jew- Item: in The Independent Richard Ingrams (he ish area of Jerusalem just over the Green Line was a who once stated that “I have developed a habit, when travesty of the truth, that far from Israel’s behaviour confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Is- over East Jerusalem being the cause of the break- raeli government to look at the signature to see if the down in talks, it’s the Palestinians who have come up writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it’) with East Jerusalem as a fig leaf for their rejection of welcomed “the expulsion of a Mossad agent from Lon- talks. For this simple statement of unarguable his- don following the affair over the forged passports used torical fact, Pollard was subjected to abuse such as, by a gang of Israeli assassins in Dubai.” “Mr. Pollard has eaten too many kosher pies” and “I A “gang of assassins,” eh? So what does that look forward to articles from child abusers telling us all make the British and American forces regularly killing how it’s a perfectly fine pastime” and assorted jihadi leaders in the defence of the west “No wonder Stephen and his fellow Cabal members against mass murder? If any of them find and kill are worried.” Osama bin Laden, as they have been vainly attempt- Actually, it’s Britain that should be worried. A ing to do, will Ingrams call them too a ”gang of assas- country that turns on the Jews like this is itself head- sins”? ing over the edge of the cliff. Yet who can turn a hair over Ingrams when no less than the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband This appeared in the U.K. Spectator on March 31.

Refuseniks: Cold War Heroes Mao’s evil empires--there has been little attention to the heroic Russian “refuseniks” and the remarkable Ruth King role they and their international supporters played in bringing down the Iron Curtain. While much has been written about the Cold There were a disproportionately large number War—recently Glenn Beck’s fine documentary Revolu- of Jews among the refuseniks. Demanding the right to tionary Holocaust detailed the horrors of Stalin’s and emigrate, they faced job loss, systematic harassment, Outpost 10 May 2010

(Continued from page 10) Meir read their famous letter: “We will wait months and beatings, indefinite confinement in “mental institu- years. We will wait all our lives if necessary, but we tions,” long and brutal incarceration, and trumped up will never renounce our faith or our hopes.” Soviet re- charges of “hooliganism” and treason. solve weakened and there was a steady flow of Geor- The oppression of Jews in Russia is hundreds gian Jews to Israel in the 1970s—in all about 30,000 of years old. Pogroms, often instigated by a succes- Georgian Jews went to Israel. sion of Czars, contributed to the human tide of immi- Elsewhere in the Jews also gration to the United States. found their voice. In 1973, a Between 1880 and 1924 when young Soviet Jew named Ana- open immigration ended, toly Sharansky applied for an 24,000,000 people came to exit visa, inspiring a chain of America. Of those, roughly ten applications—and harsh repri- percent were Russian Jews. sals. As the “refusenik” move- Unfortunately for them, an ment gained traction, it drew equal number of Jews re- the attention of American legis- mained in Russia seduced by lators. In 1974 the late Senator the dream of equality under Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Communism. And although, Representative Charles Vanik ironically, most of the Jews of added an amendment that Refuseniks from l to r) back: Vitaly Rubin, Vladimir Eastern Europe who survived bears their name to the 1974 Slepak, Lev Ovsisscher, Alexander Druk, Yossi Hitler were rescued by the Red Beilin, Dina Beilin front: , Ida Trade Act, linking trade with the Army, they were then subjected Nudel, Soviet Union to allowing re- to systematic abuse by the iron fuseniks to emigrate. It passed fist of Communist tyrants. Congress unanimously and was signed into law by When Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita President Gerald Ford in January 1975. Krushchev openly denounced Stalin, there was some That August thirty-five countries, including the improvement. Under the “Krushchev Thaw” there were Soviet Union, signed the Helsinki Accords. From the limited international exchanges with Western intellec- point of view of Soviet leaders, the accords consoli- tuals and loosening of censorship in media and the dated Soviet domination of the Baltic by giving official arts. However, Krushchev was ousted in 1964 and recognition to the post World War II borders. However, replaced by Stalinist Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, who re- its provisions also included the following: “Respect for versed reforms and rekindled anti Semitism. human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the Nonetheless, Israel’s Six Day War in 1967 freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief.” inspired many crypto-Jews to identify with Israel and These words would come to haunt Soviet leaders. challenge their rulers. A young Moscow university stu- In 1976, physicist and physicist Andrei Sak- dent Yasha Kazakov fired the first salvo in the Jewish harov formed the Helsinki Watch Group to monitor revolt. In an open letter smuggled abroad and pub- Soviet compliance. The original group included Lyud- lished in the Washington Post he declared “I consider milla Alexeyeva, Mikahil Bernshtam, myself a citizen of the State of Israel. I demand to be (Sakharov’s wife), , Pyotr freed from the humiliation of Soviet citizenship.” Within Grigorenko, Malva Landa, , Greg- weeks he received a visa and went to Israel where he ory Rosenstein, Vitaly Rubin, and Anatoly Scharansky. headed the office of liaison for Soviet immigrants. In October of that year, when 13 Jewish re- Shortly after, another dissident, Boris Kochubi- fuseniks petitioned for exit visas they were beaten, but yefsky, did not fare so well, interned for three years in their courage set off a wave of mass demonstrations Siberia for sending this note to the Kremlin: “As long followed by the arrests of 22 activists including Mark as I am capable of feeling I will do all I can to leave for Azbel, Felix Kandel, Alexander Lerner, Ida Nudel, Israel. And if you find it possible to sentence me for Valdimor Slepak and Michail Zeleny Sharansky. They that, it changes nothing. If I live until my release, I will were convicted of “hooliganism.” be prepared to go to the homeland of my ancestors, In March 1977 Scharansky was arrested and even if it means going on foot.” His letter was widely charged with high treason, espionage and anti-Soviet circulated and brought the plight of Soviet Jews to in- activity. His trial and incarceration—he endured physi- ternational attention, galvanizing a growing movement cal and emotional abuse in prison for nine years—was of support. reported throughout the free world. Thanks to his wife The Khrushchev “thaw” never extended to Avital’s unrelenting struggle on his behalf, attention Georgia. After World War II there were violent ram- remained focused on Soviet abuses of human rights. pages against synagogues and a continual recycling The refuseniks stepped up their defiance. On of blood libels. In 1969 large numbers of Jews ap- June 1, 1978, Vladimir and Maria Slepak stood on the plied for exit visas for Israel. Eighteen families wrote to balcony of their apartment displaying a banner which the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations said “Let us go to Israel.” Ida Nudel held a similar and in November of that year Prime Minister Golda banner on her balcony. They were arrested and Outpost 11 May 2010

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charged with violation of the Russian Constitution. kept on talking about the rally and the importance of and Ida Nudel were convicted of all Jewish emigration to the United States, when Gorba- charges. They served 5 and 4 years in Siberian exile chev wanted to talk about something else.” respectively. By the end of 1981, only three of the In 1989 the gates of the Soviet jail were original founders, Bonner, Kalistrova and Meiman, opened and Jews flooded out to Israel and to the were free and the ceased op- West. Their contribution to the fall of the Soviet Union eration in the spring of 1982. has been summarized by Laura Bialis who made a But the international outcry and the determina- documentary on the Refuseniks: “They were the first tion of Jewish supporters in the United States did not to realize that the Soviets actually cared about what diminish but rather grew in numbers and strength. others in the international community thought of them. In 1986 Scharansky was released and joined The Refuseniks use that hunch to their advantage. his wife in Israel where he now resides. But he did not They helped bring international attention to Soviet hu- give up the struggle for Soviet Jewry. In 1987 during man rights abuses, delegitimizing the Soviet Union in his second visit to the United States, Scharansky (I the eyes of many Western countries. The ensuing was his official guide for almost three weeks during pressure by governments around the world definitely that visit) met with the leaders of all the major Jewish had an effect.” organizations and inspired a march on Washington to As for the impact on Jews, Yossi Klein Halevi coincide with the visit of Gorbachev that culminated on wrote in 2004 in Azure: “A generation later, the mas- December 6, 1987 with 250,000 demonstrators con- sive immigration of Russian-speaking Jews has trans- verging on Washington. formed Israeli society, infusing the country with talent In The Reagan Presidency: An Oral History of and energy. But arguably a no less powerful transfor- the Era, Gerald and Deborah Strober quote Assistant mation has occurred among American Jews. The So- Secretary of State for Human Rights Richard Schifter: viet Jewry movement roused them from their passivity, “What the American Jewish community did was to put and taught them how to fight a Diaspora-generated the Soviet Jewry issue on the U.S. government’s hu- struggle and experience victory—not vicariously man rights agenda. And the U.S. government, in turn, through Israeli heroism, but as active partners in their put it on the Soviet agenda. The rally in Washington people’s fate. took place on a Sunday. The following Tuesday, Gor- In this movement Glenn Richter and his men- bachev met with Reagan, and the person who was the tor and inspiration Jacob Birnbaum, who created the note taker at the meeting told me that Reagan started Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in 1964, are heroes out by saying to Gorbachev, ‘You know, there was this who deserve special admiration and gratitude. rally on the Mall the other day.’ And Gorbachev said, Alas, today American Jewry is hostage to po- ‘Yes, I heard about it. Why don’t you go on and talk litical correctness and liberal cant which blinds it to the about arms control?’ And for five minutes, Reagan dangers facing the Jewish community worldwide.. Outpost 12 May 2010