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In the course of an hour-long interview, ADL's national director, Nathan Perlmutter, spent most of the conversation defending the likes of the Reverends Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Bailey Smith, whose remark "God does not hear the prayer of a Jew" engendered bitter feelings when it was uttered in 1982. Perlmutter pointed out that Smith, the head of the Southern Baptists, had subsequently apologized for the remark, and had made a trip to Israel accompanied by several Jewish leaders. (In Israel, Smith made one more gaffe. Learn- ing of an Israeli police program to etch serial numbers on personal belongings as part of an antitheft program, Smith wondered aloud why they didn't just etch the numbers on people's arms.) Another prominent television preacher and prayer-breakfast sponsor, The Rev- erend Jimmy Swaggart, writes in his new book, The Coming Peace in the Middle East, that there has been so little peace in the Middle East because "Israel as a peo- ple turned their back on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and embraced pagan idols," and because Jews too often yielded to "philosophies that have proved harmful to mankind . . . . Consider, for ex- ample Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky, and John Dewey [sic]." Swaggart, in one broadcast, used foot- age of the death camps to demonstrate what befalls people who fail to embrace Jesus Christ. As the film ran, Swaggart, in a voice-over, intoned the names of Jewish victims. This was too much even for the ADL, which wrote a very tactful letter expressing delight with the Rever- end Swaggart's support for the state of Israel, but advising him that the program had apparently offended some Jewish viewers. Swaggart wrote back that his in- tent had been misunderstood. The death camps, he said, did not represent God's punishment of the Jews, but rather the devil's work: "Whenever a person does not accept Jesus Christ, he takes himself away from God's protection. He then places himself under Satan's domain, who kills, steals, and destroys (St. John 10:10)." From Perlmutter's perspective, the Christian right needs to be educated, not condemned. In an article in the December 1985 Reconstructionist, Perlmutter noted that many fundamentalist preachers had opposed the AWACS sale, and wondered how many liberal religious leaders coulld be counted on to do the same. Perlmutter told me: "I'm not so sure Jerry Falwell is out to Christianize America. Lumping all these people together as the radical right has become the contemporary counterpart of Red-baiting. Sixty percent of Americans favor school prayer. Are they all the radical right?" This perspective appalls many civil libertarians. Tony Podesta, president of People for the American Way, says, "Jerry Falwell is hostile at his core to religious liberty, to the separation of church and state, that are traditionally associated with the Jewish community." Although advocates of this strategy in- sist they are making headway educating right-wingers on other Jewish sensitiv- ities, the message is slow to take hold. Ac- cording to Herbert L. Solomon, writing in the December 1985 Zionist periodical Midstream, of the 12 most conservative senators, all voted for the school prayer amendment, only two voted to deny arms to Jordan, and only two supported the resolution urging Reagan to cancel the Bit- burg visit. As AIPAC and allied PACs have be- come more bipartisan, it often happens that prominent Republicans associated with AIPAC are just as eager to deliver the Jewish community to the Republicans as they are to deliver votes for Israel. AIPAC leaders who are Democrats, such as Tom Dine, a former aide to liberal senators Kennedy, Frank Church, and Ed- mund Muskie, bend over backward not to seem partisan. A decade ago, when most politically active Jews were Democrats and most pro-Israel Republicans were liberals, agenda-mixing was not a problem. For example, Robert Asher, the chair of AIPAC's board, leans Republican. He is particularly close to Republican senator Mark Andrews of North Dakota, who faces a tightening reelection race this year. Andrew's Democratic opponent, Kent Conrad, also pro-Israel, is unlikely to get much Israel-PAC money. In a 1985 letter to major Jewish donors, Asher urged Jews to send $1,000 to Andrews-for-Senate. He added, "I look forward to greeting you per- sonally at the AIPAC Policy Conference." Four years ago, as a favor to Andrews, Asher steered some money to the oppo- nent of North Dakota Democratic con- gressman Byron Dorgan, whose record on Israel is excellent.