THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Another Look at Jackson's Syrian Caper

By REV. FRANKLIN
LITTELL
National Institute
on the Holocaust

PHILADELPHIA —
Jesse Jackson has a politi-
cian's greatest asset: a sense
of timing. His antennae told
him that the American
people were getting very
tired of having the tail
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tweaked by avowed
enemies. While the ap-
peasement experts in Wash-
ington's elite circles were
hemming and hawing, and
talking about ways of
scuttling American com-
mitments with as little loss
of face as possible, Jackson
strode forth on a center
stage.
The appeasement experts
were worried about doing
something that might of-
fend the tender sensibilities
of Arab League despots and
dictators. Jackson knew
when to make an end run:
give our declared enemy,
the dictator Assad of Syria,
a chance to show that he's
really a decent chap after
all. More than that, a show
of generosity by Assad
would give another nudge to
the swing toward
isolationism in the U.S., to
the emotional tide that is
already running: "A plague
on all their houses! Let's cut
and run!!"
It wasn't very hard to pull
off. Jackson had the open
channels, carefully culti-
vated over years of ex-
pressed sympathy for the
Arab League and the PLO
terrorists. He had indicated
how felt about "the Jews,"
notably in a public blast
when Andrew Young was
fired for lying to his friend
Jimmy Carter — unfortu-
nately then President of the
United States, and able to
forgive it but not ignore it.
And Jackson had the
help of the chairman of
the Senate Foreign Rela-
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Percy of Illinois — well
remembered for picking
Moscow — how ap-
propriate the place! — to
express his own sym-
pathy for Arafat and the
PLO.
There was just one hitch:
the Logan Act, prohibiting
commerce with the enemy.
Even counting on Percy's
help, Jackson's action
might still have had painful
consequences.
But President Reagan's
poker game has evidently
declined during his three
years in the White House
(unlike that of one of his
predecessors, Warren G.
Harding, who did little else
— in the daytime, that is).
Reagan went along, in a
perhaps misguided sense of
sportsmanship, with the
winner of the game. Appro-
priately, we see him in the
newspaper pictures, peer-
ing over Jesse Jackson's
shoulder.
Fortunately for Jesse
Jackson's caper, the flier
shot down while carrying
out orders was not an
American Jew. Lieutenant
Goodman was black, and
that gave the-game a special
touch. Jackson could stand
forth as champion of an-
other "victim of American
imperialism," and help the
dictator Assad to appear to
the world as his co-
champion of the oppressed
black Americans.
Like every decent
American, I am glad that
Lt. Goodman is home
safe. But I can't help but
ask where Jesse Jackson
would have been had the
American prisoner been
white. I know where he
would have been, and
what he would have said,
had the prisoner been a
Jew.
The one man who con-
ducted himself with propri-
ety and dignity in this
whole sorry affair was Lt.
Goodman himself. He did
not crawl. He did not play to
the cameras. He refused to
make demagogic state-
ments. He denied the
media's efforts, and the
politician's efforts too, to
move him away from his pa-
triotism to his country and
his loyalty to his

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Friday, January 20, 1984 3

War With Syria Expected

Commander-in-Chief —
who happed to be, at the
time, Ronald Reagan.
Unfortunately, I can't ex-
press the same admiration
for the other players in this
melodramatic game of
chance — not for the
carpet-bagger, not for the
"generous" dictator, not for
those who aid and abet ap-
peasement, and not for the
top man — one of whose
worthy predecessors pro-
claimed, "The buck stops
here!" — who threw in a
winning hand to give a
costly win to a four flush.
Jackson's triumph might
look like additional confu-
sion to the Democratic
Party, but in the long run it
further debilitates Ameri-
ca's standing in interna-
tional affairs.
Diplomacy conducted by
private enterprise, like
"justice" achieved by lynch-
ing even a guilty murderer,
is bad business. It under-
mines the case for an or-
derly and responsible con-
duct of public affairs. It
gives cheap victories to the
facile and public relations
oriented. It abets the slide
toward the jungle.

Daily—Hospital
Sympathy

TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
substantial majority of Is-
raelis believe a war with
Syria is likely or almost cer-
tain in the near future, ac-
cording to the results of a
poll, published in Haaretz.
PORI, the Public Opinion
Research Institute of Israel,
found that 45 percent of a
representative sampling of
1,200 Israelis thought there
was "some likelihood" of a
war between Syria and Is-
rael. Another 30 percent be-

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