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lem is that it must be with the
“one voice” that Gen. Zach
has decided is the right voice.
This flows from the dubious
premise that we are obliged to
blindly accept the decisions of
! Israeli leadership as ipso fac
to correct. It also flows from
the doubly dubious premise
that Diaspora Jews would bet*
ter serve Israel's interests by
being mouthpieces for unten
able policies than by express
ing our genuine concerns as
the highest form of unswerv
ing love for our Homeland.
Gentiles who are sympathetic
to our cause have told me
more than once that Israel will
gain incalculably more in the
eyes of the American public
through our candor and forth
rightness than through our
stonewalling on positions that
sensible people know are un
conscionable.
Gen. Zach is correct in the
sense that we must have one
united voice regarding our un
compromising aUegiance to
Israel. And, of course, we
must be extremely prudent in
choosing the forums in which
we express our dissent and in
the rhetoric we use to do so. To
maintain, however, that “one
voice" means to run inter
ference for every Israeli pol
icy, however suspect, and to
broadly imply that those who
dissent are borderline traitors,
is a plunge that no thinking,
caring Jew should be willing to
take.
I bristled when a journalist
friend recently told me to
“stop worrying about the
media discrediting Israel, and
worry more about how badly
Israel is being discredited by
the mouths of its own spokes
men.” I abhor those words,
but after hearing Gen. Zach, I
can’t help but believe that
they contain at least a grain of
truth.
Now it is time to hear some
of the bold, yet responsible,
voices of those Israelis —
statesmen, men and women of
military distinction and impec
cable credentials — who speak
not only with the calculating
pragmatism of realpolitik but
with the idealism and moral
sensitivity that makes Israel
unique among the nations of
the world. If there is to be a
future for an Israel truly
enlivened by Jewish values
and “neshamah,” I am more
convinced than ever that it
must come through them,
sooner, not later.
CORRECTION-
When Temple Israel sent the release on those qualify
ing for participation in the National Finals of the National
Bible Contest, they listed only Heather Binnick and Mara
Jacobson. Shira Melenson, daughter of Cynthia and Richard
Melenson, also qualified and participated in the contest.
“Concerned Charlotteans” is a
dynamic, Christian fundamen
talist organization that is
rapidly bi^oming a political
force in our community, mov
ing Charlotte toward a more
narrowminded world view.
They have every right to
create a movement of people
who want to turn the clock
back, but they don’t speak for
us. They have every right to
create movement of people
whose policies are harmful to
the poor and dispossessed, but
they don’t speak for us. They
have every right in this socie
ty of ours to try to coerce their
own narrow views of what can
not be read and what cannot
be seen and what cannot be
taught in schools, but they do
not speak for us.
But they DO speak for us.
Every one of us who has been
silent allows and enables them
to speak in our name. But
their religious views are not
our religious views, and it is
time for us to stand up and be
counted. There ARE things
we can do:
• You can join our re-
emerging Social Action Com
mittee.
• You can get involved with
Mecklenburg Ministries and
its attempts to deal with the
problems of the homeless in
Charlotte.
• You can write letters to
the Editor of The Charlotte
Observer letting the communi
ty know that religion can also
lead to compassion.
• You can write the County
Commissioners and express
your concern about their value
system in allocations.
• You can find ways to get
our Temple involved — not as
individuals — but as a con
gregation — in the work of
Tikkun 01am, of making this
a better world for all.
• You can redouble your
support of Planned Parent
hood and Metrolina AIDS
Project, financially and with
your volunteer time.
There are things you can do,
and you can do them now.
Then next year, I won’t have
to give this sermon again.
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