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We share the pain and anguish suffered by the innocent victims in the Lebanese camps and call on the government of Israel to do everything in its power to determine the identity of those who were in the least degree responsible. At the same time; we urge restraint and patience on the part of the Jewish community until the completion of the Israeli government's investi- gation. We feel it is morally wrong to call for the resignation of Israel's Prime Minister and Minister of Defense before culpability is fixed. Fur- thermore, such a call constitutes interference with the democratic process by which Israel elects it officials and encourages the exploitation of the present crisis by political elements hostile to the elected government. We reiterate our support for the resolution adopted unanimously by the Public Affairs Committee of the Jewish United Fund of Chicago on September 25, 1982, which expressed confidence in the state of Israel to conduct an impartial investigation into the causes of the tragic events while pointing up the silence on the part of the governments of the world and the media concerning the ravaging of Lebanon and the Lebanese people by the PLO during the past 10 years, as well as their readiness to throw the entire blame for the slayings at the Shatilla and Sabra camps on Israel rather than on the actual perpetrators of the slaughter. In one synagogue in New York, an address by one of the Protest Rabiner (a term coined about them in Theodor Herzl's time) was especially aggravating for Yitzhaq Ben-Ami, author and historian whose "Years of Wrath, Days of Glory" recalled the history of the Vladimir Jabotinsky activities as a genesis to the Likud in Israel, and the early years of Menahem Begin's role in Israel's history. Ben-Ami was roiled by what Rabbi Gunter Hirshberg of Cong. Rodeph Sholom preached in his sermon, and he responded in a letter: What you did in your sermon was to indict a large, possibly the largest, segment of the people of Israel (80 percent) who, by and large, up to a few weeks ago, gave the policies of Menahem Begin their support. You pre- judged a government and people by agonizing from the pulpit over the decline of the "beautiful Israel," thus implying that the majority is "ugly Israel." You indicted before any impartial verdict was arrived at as to who is responsible for what happened in the Palestinian camps where the PLO murderers were based, hid their weapons, and left a nucleus of .active terrorists (who are still there) and from which trouble and bloodshed will _ still come. What happened did happen; as to who is actually responsible (regard- less whether Arik Sharon takes the blame on himself, which he should, as the top defense official of the country), the jury has not even convened. What you did was to align-yourself with a politically motivated Labor leadership which will live to regret identifying itself with Marxist-pro-PLO elements, non-Jews and Jews alike, in Israel and abroad, as it did when disseminating the Deir Yassin accusation. (Incidentally, I hope you read that chapter in my book.) What you did is to introduce a century-old ideological Zionist conflict into a current controversy involving a possible limited error by some army commanders that otherwise excelled themselves under very difficult condi- tions in a complex operation .. . What you told your congregation is that we Jews are different — if not actually "chosen" — to live and function on higher planes than the rest of mankind. You are creating an intellectual dilemma which leads nowhere, or worse, to destruction. Above all, let's admit to reality: Israel and Israelis are like all other - people! They make mistakes. Sometimes very* bad ones: LaYon (Ben- Gurion) affair; the Rabin/Yadlin/Histradrut corruption; the political- military mistakes of Golda Meir, Dayan (Yom Kippur, 1973). Some mistakes cost hundreds of Israeli lives. Others damaged Israel's image. I'm sure you would not want to confuse the congregation with all these events, and others; acts committed, precipitated, carried out by the same "beautiful" ideologues, who today flagellate themselves, atoning for "Israel's sins," in the center of Tel Aviv or on the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, the "beautiful" Haaretz and Labor's Jerusalem Post. There is much to be recorded about the recurring agonies. Jewish critics have been as guilty in the fanning of prejudices against Israel as have the embittered in the media. Ammunition has thus been provided for Israel's enemies, for a revived anti-Israel Arab League, perhaps also as has been intimated in the declining American friendship for Israel. If the latter is true, then the public relations image in and out of Israel in support of Israel must change. The ablest in the friendly ranks must act. If concessions are due, let them be planned and explored. As always expressed, the sooner Israel's forces get out of Lebanon the happier. If the Lebanese are unable to end fratricide, it need no longer be Israel's responsibility that the peace in that unhappy country is delayed. And Israel, if it is to remain an arsenal state because only in strength can she survive, then the means for such survival is the providing responsibility of all Jews. IJA Study Details Soviet Ineffectiveness LONDON — A study of the Soviet response to the Lebanese crisis says "Strong in words of support for the Palestinians and the Arab cause, Moscow proved noticeably weak in deeds." The crisis "demonstrated clearly the USSR's continu- ing inability to influence significantly events in the Middle East." The study, published by the World Jewish Congress' Institute of Jewish Affairs in London, also suggests that "Perhaps a major cause of Soviet restraint was Mos- cow's desire to improve rela- tions with the Reagan ad- ministration, specifically to attain agreement with the U.S. in the field of arms limitation." The author of the study, Dr. Howard Spier, assistant editor of the "Soviet Jewish Affairs," examines the de- velopment of Moscow's re- sponse during the crisis.