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ANALYSIS

Jackson: Mixed Blessing
At Geneva Summit Talks

BY RABBI MARC H. TANENBAUM
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nity could rightly wonder —
whose summit was it in
Geneva?
Was the summit a major
foreign policy undertaking to
bring U.S. President Reagan
and USSR Communist Party
Chairman Gorbachev into seri-
ous dialogue on critical interna-
tional issues? Or was the
Geneva summit a pretext for the
Rev. Jesse Jackson to upstage
President Reagan?
Former White House aide
Michael Deaver was interviewed
on the CBS Morning News and
he appeared to be furious over
the Jackson publicity caper. He
had a right to be. As Deaver
rightly pointed out, President
Reagan was elected in 1984 as
the spokesman of the American
people, while Rev. Jackson was
decisively rejected by the Demo-
cratic Party and the American
people as their spokesman.
Understandably, some Jewish
leaders, looking for a silver lin-
ing, welcomed Jesse Jackson
raising the Soviet Jewry issue
with Gorbachev. They saw it as
a "plus" that a black leader told

Gorbachev that "the plight of
Soviet Jews is a source of anx-
iety to millions of Americans."
Personally, I think that was a
mixed blessing. In fact, Jackson
handed "communicator" Gor-
bachev a major, and dangerous,
propaganda victory over suffer-
ing Soviet Jewry. In response to
Jackson's thinly-informed
statement, Gorbachev wove his
new web of seductive disinfor-
mation: Soviet Jewry, he lied,
not only does not suffer from
denial of human rights in the
USSR, but they are in fact ap-
reciated by the Soviets as "a
talented people."
That monstrous deception re-
verberated over international
air-waves, including the USSR
and Third World countries, and
Jackson had not a word to
counter it. Jewish leaders and
the American government's
elected officials will now have
their hands filled with the task
of telling the truth about the
real plight of harassed Soviet
Jews and others, so miserably
obscured by the Gorbachev-
Jackson "mini-summit."

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