THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Incorporation of West Bank
in Israel Harmful: Schindler
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The Reform leader said he
supported "an accommoda-
tion with the Palestinians
but not the PLO, territorial
compromise but not a Pales
tinian state."
Defending the right of
Diaspora Jewry to dissent
from official Israeli gov-
ernment policy, Schindler
declared: "Dissent should
never be equated with dis-
loyalty. Let us once and for
all reject the accusation
that by speaking the truth
as we see .it, by giving Is-
raelis our own perception of
events, we are 'somehow
treasonous."
The Reform rabbi con-
ceded that dissent was
"sometimes dangerous"
and that it must be exer-
cised with great caution
"lest it provide wood for
the axes of our enemies
and dilute our effective-
ness in Washington."
The Reform leader urged
that "new and better chan-
nels" be developed "through
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honest and respectful opin-
ions to the Israeli govern-
ment and to its people." He
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• Periodic meetings of the
Conference of Presidents of
Major. American Jewish
Organizations with mem-
bers of the Knesset Foreign
Affairs Committee and with
the Israel editors' associa-
tion.
• Periodic meetings of
Jewish members of the Se-
nate and House of Repre-
sentatives with their coun-
terparts in Israel to discuss
American
political
realities.
• A parliament for the
Jewish people.
• A weekly column in the
Israeli press to present the
views of the Reform move-
ment "on the question of our
own religious rights" in Is-
rael and on broader ques-
tions as well.
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DENVER (JTA) — Rabbi
Alexander Schindler,
president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congre-
gations, declared that the
incorporation of Judea and
Samaria into Israel "repre-
sents a threat to the Jewish
essence of the state and the
unity of the Jewish people."
He also defended the
rights of Jews outside Is-
rrael to dissent from official
government policy.
In an address to some 300
Reform Jewish leaders
attending the semi-annual
meeting of the UAHC's
board of trustees, Schindler
said:
"While I understand
and appreciate Israel's
historical claims to
Judea and Samaria, I be-
lieve it necessary for the
sake of peace and justice
that these claims be mod-
erated.
"Far from increasing Is-
rael's security, the absorp-
tion of these territories —
either open or covert — will
sow the seeds of endless con-
flict. It will also corrode the
Jewish character of the
state and thereby rupture
world Jewish unity."
Citing "the danger that
the absorption of the West
Bank could transform Israel
from a Jewish state to a bi-
national state," Schindler
asserted: "If Israel tries to
extricate itself from this di-
lemma by either represeing
the Arabs or driving them
out, this too will lead to a
disfiguring of Isarel's essen-
tial democratic nature and
alienate substantial seg-
ments of world Jewry."
Friday, December 10, 1982 21
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