Friday, April 5, 1985

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Fanaticism In The U.S.
Worries Israeli Lawyer

"Louis Farrakhan is your Meir
Kahane."
With this simple, yet powerful
comparison, Moshe Meron warns
Americans that the Black Mus-
lim's sudden rise to prominence
must be taken as seriously here as
Kahane's election to the Knesset
is taken in Israel.
Meron, a 59-year-old Tel Aviv
lawyer, Liberal Party politician,
and former Likud Member of the
Knesset, was this year's Detroit
Zionist Federation Scholar-in-
Residence. Before returning to Is-
rael on Monday, Meron told The
Jewish News that Farrakhan and
Kahane "are on the same level.
And you have to take Farrakhan
seriously. His demagoguery re-
minds me of how the Nazis talked.
It's very easy to inflame the low-
est instincts in man."
As roving Israeli spokesman,
Meron was called upon by the
media to explain the shooting of
three CBS crewmen by Israeli
soldiers. He calls the incident "un-
fortunate," adding that he is sorry
it happened.
"Channel 7 called on me and
asked: 'Don't you think they did it
on purpose?' My reply was that an
Israeli soldier would never kill
someone from the media on pur-
pose.
"But if you are standing a mile
away and there is a camera

"If you are standing a
mile away . . . and
there is some
shooting . . . then you
shoot first and ask
questions after."

pointed at you, and you really
can't see if it's a camera, (and the
sound man is holding up his mic-
rophone) next to some of the
Shiite fanatics, and they're run-
ning around, and maybe there's
some shooting — then you shoot
first and ask questions after."
Asked about the apparent ero-
sion in the rule of law in Israel
during recent years, Meron says
that the system is basically
healthy despite its disregard by
certain segments of Israeli
society. Nevertheless, he stresses
that the problems are serious.
"The latest polls say that Meir
Kahane would double his man-
date in the Knesset if the elections
were held now," Meron reveals.
"It's very troublesome."

He calls Kahane's discriminat-
ory and racist beliefs "dangerous"
and "un-Jewish," and suggests
raising the threshold for election
to the Knesset from the current
one percent to three or 31/2 percent
of the total vote as a way of weed-
ing the Kach leader out of the
political system.
But this is, he admits, only a
band-aid solution to a much de-
eper problem: the absence of a
`culture of democracy' — to bor-
row Abba Eban's phrase — among
many Israelis.

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Moshe Meron: Equating Louis
Farrakhan with Meir Kahane.

As a long-term solution, Meron
says, Yitzhak Navon's Education
Ministry has launched a program
to teach high school students the
importance of democracy and val-
ues such as tolerance for the well-
being of Israeli society.
Perhaps these efforts will dis-
courage the rise of another Jewish
terror underground. Meron de-
scribes the accused in the current
underground case as having been
"misled."
"These people have done a lot
for Israel in the past, but they
went the wrong way," he explains.
Nevertheless, Meron disagrees
with the group's basic premise
that Israel's security services are
not doing an adequate job of polic-
ing the territories.
The Israeli lawyer predicts that
the current national unity coali-
tion will not last out the year, and
that the Labor Alignment will
call for early elections.
Meron shifted to a predecessor
of Peres — Golda Meir — whose
likeness now appears on the
10,000 shekel note. Despite the
large denomination of her bill,
Golda and her policies as premier
are now coming under harsh
scrutiny and criticism in Israel.
"With time we find out that
people were not perfect," Meron
says simply.
On this side of the Atlantic,
Golda remains probably the most
beloved of Israeli leaders. "There
is a certain sentimental feeling
for her over here," Meron says. "I
think it's because she was from
the U.S. and spoke a nice Ameri-
can English. She was the
motherly type; she was a strong
woman. I think these things are
well remembered.
"We lived closer to her. If you
live close to a person, then you
know all his faults."
During his stay, the German-
born Meron visited Detroit's
Holocaust Memorial Center. He
believes the center should help
make people more aware of anti-
Semitism and hatred in our own
time:
"It was very impressive. I wish
that every child in this commu-
nity would go there — and not just
Jews — to see what happened, and
what could happen when some
crazy man like Farrakhan starts
talking."

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