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A FASHION
"MUST"
THIS SEASON
still doesn't have a fix on
Jackson."
Amos Perlmutter, the
American University political
scientist and author, stakes
out a different position.
"Jackson is an out-and-out
anti-Semite," Perlmutter says.
"Jews do not like extremists
of any kind. Pat Robertson
and Jesse Jackson are both
extremists, and in my view,
Jackson is the more per-
nicious of the two, primarily
because of the political in-
fluence he is likely to get. I
doubt if Robertson will get
anywhere."
Perlmutter worries about
how even an unsuccessful
Jackson bid might affect the
eventual nominee. "This man
has power in the party, and
they will have to take care of
him. Can you imagine
Jackson's people influencing
the appointment of an assis-
tant secretary of state for
Middle Eastern affairs?"
On the Republican side, Pat
Robertson has his own pro-
blems with Jewish voters,
although the different
character of the GOP primary
process means that his
Jewish problem will have a
lesser impact on the early
stages of the campaign.
While Jewish resistance to
Jesse Jackson seems totally
unrelated to the black
minister's religion, religion is
at the very heart of opposition
to Robertson, the TV
evangelist and founder of the
vast Christian Broadcasting
Network empire.
Robertson's forces do not in-
tend to write off the Jewish
vote, despite the candidate's
stand on issues like school
prayer and the separation of
church and state. "Pat really
loves the Jewish people and
Israel," says Connie Snap, his
press secretary. She points
out that the former host of the
700 Club has visited Israel
more than 15 times, and once
made a solemn promise to
God to protect this land.
Robertson's Jewish strategy
seems to have three elements.
First, his workers are seeking
out members of the pro-Israel
community and emphasizing
the candidate's strong sup-
port for Israel. As early as two
years ago, Robertson spent
more than four hours meeting
with Tom Dine, director of
the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, trying to
gauge the depth of Jewish op-
position to his candidacy and
to present his pro-Israel
credentials.
At the same time, Robert-
son and his staff are trying to
render invisible his position
on the Christian
apocalypse — an event that
supports the modern state of
Israel because of its place in
apocalyptic theology. Accor-
ding to most millenial Chris-
tians, Israel will be the site of
a terrible massacre of Jews,
leaving only a worldwide
remnant of 144,000 — who
will then convert to
Christianity.
Indeed, although he now
shies away from millenialism,
occasional references to these
theories creep into Robert-
son's campaign rhetoric. In a
recent speech, he announced
that "I would appoint as
secretary of state someone
who would stand up for
America instead of someone
who would try to move the na-
tion toward a one-world
socialist government."
The reference was ap-
parently directed at Secretary
of State George Shultz, and
was based on the widespread
fundamentalist notion that
America's government is in
the grips of a worldwide
satanic conspiracy to bring
about the "one-world system"
supposedly prophesied in the
Book of Revelation. The
members of this conspiracy,
according to various inter-
pretations, include liberals,
Masons, the Trilaterial Com-
mission, the National Educa-
tion Association, the United
Nations and Jews.
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