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NOW YOU CAN VOTE! ❑ Yes, I want Israel to be a Jewish State where Jews are the majority under Jewish Law. • `,/ ❑ Yes, I want Israel to be a democracy even if it means the Arabs may outvote the Jews. Name(optional) • Address Synagogue Affiliation ' Please send to: Committee For The Jewish Idea, Box 633, Troy, MI 48099 OR bring your ballot to The South- field Hilton Hotel - Thursday, October 24;7:30 p.m. RESULTS TO BE ANNOUNCED DURING RABBI KAHANE'S SPEECH ROBERT ST. JOHN The Reverend President in '88? It's more than three years un- til the next Presidential election, but it's not too early for those who fear the Religious Right (and that ought to include almost all Jews) to start worry- ing about the plansalready be- ing made to put a handsome, charismatic, highly persuasive, born-again Christian preacher in the White House. . Several weeks ago, when the report spread that. Pat Robertson, the television evangelist, is considering run- ning in 1988, an editorial de- clared that the news had sent a shiver down the spines of Re- publican strategists and that "Democrats, Republicans, inde- pendents, gentiles, Jews and non-believers" should all be troubled by "the growing influ- ence of the fundamentalist right in politics." In this column I would like to explain why I think Jews espec- ially should be wary of Robert- son's ambition to be President. First, a few facts about- this prospective candidate. He is 66 years old but has the energy, zip and bounce of a college boy. While Ronald Reagan was once fit to play cowboy roles in Hollywood, Robertson is still Photogenic enough to play the male lead in Dynasty. In the past 25 years he has-acquired and developed 600 acres of prime property in Virginia Beach, one of the fastest grow- ing parts of the country. There he has built a $22 million broad- cast center, a $13 million library, a university that gives out masters degrees to thou- sands a year, and a $13 million outreach building. His cash flow is put at $230 million a year. The political base that Robert- son has at the start is his so- called 700 Club, a television show that he claims reaches in- to nearly 71/2 million households a week. That means he is in in- timate touch, weekly, with more than 20 million voters. One of his assistants on the air is a former Black Muslim. His father was a Congressman. In addition to praying to God to help him win his political plans, Robertson, in preparation for his campaign-, has purchased a 24 seat Jet aircraft and has developed strong ties with Washington-based New Right leaclerS, such as Richard Viguerie, the man who works miracles with, his direct-by-mail tricks. - Now let me tell you what I know about Robertson. Last April a debate was scheduled at Washington Hebrew Congrega- tion between the Moral Majority leader, Jerry Falwell, and Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the Jewish leader. A few hours before the scheduled time Falwell phoned in sick and Robertson was pro- duced as the pinch-hitter. My wife and I were among the 1,800 in the audience, a vast ma-- jority Jews. .Robertson was given the opening 38 minutes. Using all the techniques and tricks of a skilled broadcaster, plus an appealing sense of - Certified by the National Automotive Institute of Excellence C..A liki LOOKING IN humor, Robertson within a few minutes had most of his listen- ers under his spell. He was fre- quently interrupted by hand clapping and at the conclusion of his "sermon" he was given rousing applause. He had his audience so mesmerized that no one seemed to notice his incon- sistencies and contradictions. For example, at one point he insisted that unlike Falwell and his Fundamentalists, he, Robert- son, and other evangelists never mix in politics. Yet a few min- utes later he claimed that he and his associates are doing as much for Israel, politically, as AIPAC. He pretended not to be pros- elytizing, but in the spirit of Robertson's political base starts with his 700 Club TV show, which reaches 7.5 • million households weekly. "Let's all be friends together" he said that Jews believe in the eventual coming of the Messiah and Christians believe in the eventual coming of their Messiah and the only difference the implied) is that the Chris- tians know the name of their Messiah, while the Jewish Mes- siah is still anonymous, and so, because there is so little differ- ence between us, why shouldn't we all get together. Of course, "getting together" to the evangelicals means conversion to the brand of Christianity. I was so disturbed by the reac- tion of the 1,800 men and women in the audience that a week or two later I did a talk to the National Council of Jewish Women on the subject: "Are the Jews Being Taken In the by Religious Right?" Now that Robertson has made it clear that if, in answer to his prayers, he gets the go-ahead from the Almighty he will run for the Presidency, I take pen in hand to warn that the ambitions of this slick proselytizer- propagandist-evangelist ought to be of great concern to the Jewish community - as well as to a lot of others of us - even this long before November, - 1988. , Raid Deplored , New York (JTA) — A former counsel to President Jimmy Carter, Lloyd Cutler, wrote in' the New York Times last week that the Israeli air ,raid on the Palestine Liberation Organiza- tion headquarters in Tunis Oct. 1 cannot be condoned. "Hunt and kill is a principle we totally reject in our own con- stitution and . legal system. It is a principle we would never allow any other nation to follow on our territory," Cutler con- tended. .