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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1984 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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Reflections On Conventions
With all the conventions we report for various
organizations; fraternal, political, religious, social,
educational, medical and ad infinitum, we’ve often
reflected upon the malaise of war and man’s inhumanity
God really doesn’t plague man with the horrors of
armed catastrophe.
Man does it to himself.
We wonder why when there are thousands of
universities and millions of students the world over plus
millions of professionals why some super international
conference couldn’t be started by the grass roots to
outlaw war and rid humanity of its greatest scourge:
wholesale fratricide.
It may be wishful thinking.
Some great day it will have to start with people
shouting their opposition to brothers and sisters
slaughtering each other for exchanges of real estate or
for paying blind obedience to the political fancy or
whims of egomaniacs.
Let the people muster their courage and yell from the
highest mountains: “Thou Shalt Not Kill.”
God will hear it.
But, much more, people will follow.
Man could walk with his brothers and sisters under
the Fatherhood of God.
Peace will reign throughout the lands.
And the swords will have finally been beaten into
ploughshares.
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Between You and Me
The Election Season
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief emeritus, J.T.A.]
[Copyright 1984, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.]
their ballots will go this November.
THE ELECTION SEASON: August is
usually a quiet month in Jewish communal
activities. It is a vacation month.
Not this August — when the campaign
for the election of a President of the
United States is approaching its culmina-
tion point.
The influence which Jackson now has
among Blacks will probably gradually
evaporate during the four years of the
Mondale-Ferraro term, if they are elected
in November. It is a well-known fact that
Jackson does not enjoy the support of
many leaders in the Black community, and
that Black Mayors and officials were
against his Presidential bid.
In other years, the months before going
to the polls to vote for the President were
rleatively quiet for Jewish voters. Each
voter knew well in advance for whom he
would vote. The Democratic Party
received its traditional majority of Jewish
votes. The Republican Party was inching
higher in Jewish votes with each
Presidential election.
In the elections this year things are
different. The anti-Jewish tone injected
by Rev. Jesse Jackson into the election
campaign put Jewish voters more on the
alert. They saw danger for the American
Jewish community if Jackson, with his
intensified anti-Jewish statements, was
named by the Democratic national
convention a candidate for President, for
which he aspired, or even for Vice
President. Experience in the last decades
has shown that a Vice President could
become President quite unexpectedly.
This was the case with Harry Truman,
when, as Vice President, he stepped into
the Presidency when Roosevelt suddenly
died. This was also the case with Lyndon
Johnson when President Kennedy was
assassinated.
A New York Times-CBS poll conducted
among registered voters established that
only 29 percent of all registered adult
Blacks interviewed said they supported
Jackson; 49 percent said they supported
Mondale, even though they voted for
Jackson in the primaries. New leaders will
emerge in the Black community during
the next four years who will hardly
tolerate Jackson’s methods and domina-
tion. The Times-CBS poll shows that only
64 percent of all Blacks think Jackson’s
campaign has helped Blacks.
JEWISH ACTIVITY: Between now and
the November election, feverish activities
are planned by Jewish organizations and
Jewish community councils throughout
the country to strengthen Black-Jewish
relations.
Walter Mondale did not, however,
choose Jackson as his running mate for
Vice President. Mondale preferred to
choose Geraldine Ferraro — the first
woman in American history to be named
for the post of Vice President. Many Jews,
even among those indifferent to politics,
felt happy about it. Some of the Jewish
voters who never went to the polls to cast
Reports from some cities to the
National Jewish Community Relations
Advisory Council [NJCRAC] indicate that
support within the Black communities for
Jackson is not necessarily synonymous
with support for positions that would be
disturbing to the Jewish community. In
Berkeley, for instance, seven Black
precincts, all of which voted for Jackson in
the primaries also voiced opposition to
some of his views.
From Philadelphia, it was reported that
the assumption that support for Jackson
constitutes a litmus test on how blacks
feel about Jewish interests is not born out
See Smolar Page 6
Monitor
Israel and America
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BY M.J. ROSEHBERG
Peter Grose’s book Israel
in the Mind of America
(Knopf, 1983) reveals a
fascinating irony. He tells
how the U.S. State Depart-
ment “unwittingly provoked
the first clear statement of
Zionist aspirations in the
United States.”
without warning, Noah was
dismissed from his position
by Secretary of State James
Monroe.
The year was 1815 and
Mordecai Manuel Noah, a
Jewish Democrat from New
York City, had been serving
as U.S. consul in Tunisia for
two years. Noah believe
that he was doing a good job
in a difficult situation —
pirates from North Africa
were attacking American
ships and Noah had to deal
with the menace. But then,
Monroe explained why he
was firing Noah in a letter
carried to Tunis by courier.
He went right to the point.
“At the time of your appoint-
ment as Congul at Tunis it
was not known that the
religion which you profess
would from any obstacle
.. .Recent information, how-
ever, on which entire reli-
ance may be placed, proves
that it would produce a very
unfavorable effect ... On
the receipt of this letter,
therefore, you will consider
yourself no longer in the
public service.”
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