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CANDLELIGHTING AT 7:29 P.M.
VOL. XC, NO. 3
Outrage In Istanbul
As if further proof was necessary, the deadly outrage in Istanbul last
week underscored the fact that Arab terrorists aim not only to destroy
Israel but Jews as well. Statements to the contrary — that Palestinian
leaders seek only a homeland and are willing to live in peace with Jews
— explode in the reality, in the blood and suffering of Jewish men,
women and children. In the last 14 months, worshippers at synagogues in
Copenhagen, Paris, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, Rome, Antwerp and
Vienna have been killed or wounded by terrorists.
The synagogue attacked last Saturday morning during services is
called Neve Shalom, harbor of peace, but it seems that as long as Jews
anywhere in the world identify as Jews, there is no haven.
Ariel Sharon blames the tragedy on the peace efforts of Shimon
Peres, while Jimmy Carter faults the stagnant Reagan diplomacy.
Organizations express outrage and condolences, scholars and leaders call
for cooperation to work towards ending international terrorism. But for
the victims and their loved ones there is no comfort. Only the realization
that we are still Jews, still targets for terrorism.
Hammerin' Hank
By now, most of the tributes have been paid to Henry Benjamin
"Hank" Greenberg, who died last week at age 75. The Detroit
metropolitan daily newspapers have thoroughly and sensitively captured
the essence of the man and the monumental impact he had on Detroit,
the Tigers and Jews throughout America.
Greenberg epitomized the American work ethic. Greenberg was a
patriot. Greenberg was proud to be a Jew . . . at a time when being
Jewish was particularly trying. We in Detroit were privileged to have
him carry out his mission — on and off the playing field — in our midst.
Tourism Travail
American tourism to Israel has begun to make a comeback after a
disastrous summer season (see Page 25). Detroiters however, based on the
skimpy figures available, are still being overly cautious before resuming
their visits to the Jewish state.
Caution was the watchword after the year's spate of terrorism in the
Middle East. But it would not be a rash action to review El Al Israel
Airlines' perfect safety record on non-stop flights originating in the
United States and to compare the ambience of Israel to our own city
streets.
Support for Israel must go beyond rhetoric at meetings and
contributions. Support for Israel demands a trip of a lifetime to check out
the investment.
OP-ED
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Candidate Pat Robertson:
A Republican Liability?
ROBERT E. SEGAL
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rank J. Fahrenkopf Jr.,
politically-astute _national
chairman of the Republican
Party, has said he believes at least
15 Democrats and 15 Republicans
will be in the 1988 race to succeed
President Reagan.
One Republican who has broken
early from the paddock is Rev. Pat
Robertson, the evangelical television
pastor. Urging him to "go for it,
Pat," Nelson Bunker Hunt conducted
a rip-roaring Texas rally for the
charismatic pentacostal Virginian
recently. Mark well what the man
who would be president said at the
bash:
"Christians -feel more strongly
about love of country, love of God,
and support for the traditional fam-
ily than do non-Christians."
Mr. Robertson denies he wants
to promote sectarian aims. Why,
then, after his Michigan supporters
filed for several thousand Republi-
can delegate slots, did he embellish
his next fund-raising letter sent to
50,000 Michigan supporters with
this battle cry: "The Christians have
won. What a breakthrough for the
Kingdom."?
Earlier in his career, Mr.
Robertson teamed with Rev. Jerry
Falwell to launch Moral Majority, a
widely-publicized religious right
movement. It might be that Pat
Robertson learned to crack the
religio-politico whip from Mr. Fal-
well. One of the latter's illuminating
remarks was: "If a person is not a
Christian, he is inherently a fail-
ure."
Mr. Robertson, gazing through
the wrong end of his telescope, be-
moans what he sees as a tiny elite of
secular humanists stealing the gov-
ernment, the courts and the schools
from America's God-fearing majority
and asserts it's up_ to Christians to
win them back.
F
.
Strangely enough, the govern
ment, the courts and the schools,
along with the Constitution, still
stand, but Mr. Robertson, who de
scribes himself as a prophet of God,
says he doesn't believe the President
and Congress have any obligation to
obey Supreme Court rulings with
which they disagree.
When he tested the political
waters in Michigan in August, the
preacher-candidate claimed victory 1
over both George Bush and Jack
Kemp. Yet he appears to have been'
Pat Robertson's battle cry: The
Christians have won!"
severely bruised. One poll, showedTh
only 10 percent of those questioned I
were inclined to vote for him and
indicated Mr. Bush led Pates
Robertson by 37 percent to 23 per-
cent even among voters describing `\
themselves as born-again Christians.
From evidence such as this, one
Republican leader concluded that for
every two new people Mr. Robertson
might draw into the party, the GOI--
will lose four.
Walter Mondale, who went down
to crushing defeat in the 198
presidential race, once complained