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featured by the media to pro-
vide balance.
Scurrilous libels have been
invented and given legit-
imacy by merely appearing in
the press. For example,
Amnesty International, the
International Red Cross, and
all the world's media, gave
credence to reports that 40
Arabs had been killed by
poisonous tear gas. Yet the
fickleness of prevailing
breezes would make the use of
poisonous tear gas a poten-
tially suicidal endeavor.
In some right-wing Israeli
quarters the entire intifada
has been blamed on the
media, for it is claimed that
riots are only staged for the
cameras. While there is some
truth to this, it must be noted
that not all violent incidents
are reported. The media has
recorded regrettable in-
stances of IDF brutality, but
does not always mention that
the guilty soldiers were
suitably punished.
It is difficult to assess the
overall damage that the in-
tifada has done to Israel.
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The intifada has indeed
changed perceptions on both
left and right. Few now
believe that Jews and Arabs
can carry on living together
within the "status quo"
framework that existed from
1967 to 1987. Fresh solutions
must be sought and the elec-
tions in November may decide
whether those solutions have
a more dovish or hawkish
hue.
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Prime Minister Shamir, in a
recent interview with the
Jerusalem Post, asserted that
"it has not triggered any
deterioration in international
relations." Shamir's Labor op-
ponents, however, feel his
outlook reflects wishful
thinking. Nevertheless, there
is a national consensus that
the uprising cannot be
tolerated. Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin of the Labor
party, insists that eventual
peace will be achieved
through political negotiation
and not through street
violence.
ew York — There
are 147 Christian
missionary groups in
the United States who are
organized mainly to try to in-
duce Jews to convert. But the
end result of their efforts, ac-
cording to an expert in the
field, is that they spend large
sume of money for small
gains.
According to Philip Abram-
owitz, director of the Task
Force on Missionaries and
Cults of the New York Jewish
Community Relations Coun-
cil (JCRC), the missionary
groups spent a total of more
than $150 million during the
past five years.
Abramowitz's estimate of
the effectiveness of such huge
expenditures was roughly
25,000 Jews converted to
Christianity during the past
10 years. "I wish we could do
a comprehensive study of just
exactly how many Jews do
convert, but we don't have the
funds,"he said.
Abramowitz said a "sister
organization" to the JCRC
task force, which was found-
ed in 1977, is the Cult Line
and Clinic formed by the
Jewish Board of Family and
Children's Services.
That program, which is
funded by a special grant
from the New York Federa-
tion of Jewish Philanthropies,
maintains a 24-hour hot-line.
It also offers help to in-
dividuals who are in or who
have left a cult, as well as to
family and friends.
Task forces opposing conver-
sion efforts are maintained by
federations in Los Angeles,
Philadelphia and Miami, who
all work with the New York
Task Force.
A missionary agency par-
ticularly active in the New
York area is Jews for Jesus,
which regularly distributes
thousands of skillfully design-
ed pamphlets. The major mis-
sionary group is the
American Board of Missions
to the Jews, but such groups
as Jews for Jesus get their
funds from a variety of Chris-
tian evangelical soruces.
Groups like Jews for Jesus
and B'nai Yeshua seek to
form a kind of bridge. The pro-
cess starts with efforts to per-
suade Jews they can be
"Hebrew Christians," • who
can then be targets of
outright conversion efforts.
As a counterforce to Jews
for Jesus, Jews for Judaism
was organized about five
years ago in Baltimore. Its
director is Larry Levey,
himself a former Hebrew
Christian. He became direc-
tor in 1985.
Levey, 33, said that any Jew
who does not have strong per-
sonal, family or spiritual