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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1988
Tikkun Panelists Back
U.S. Talks With PLO
New York (JTA) — A con-
ference of American Jewish
progressives opened this week
with a panel's strong support
of the U.S move to begin talks
with the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
The endorsement, shared
by the Palestinian speakers
on the panel, was markedly
different from the lukewarm
reception given by the major
American Jewish organiza-
tions to the U.S. decision.
But according to conference
organizer Michael Lerner,
that is the point of the con-
clave and his two-and-half-
year-old magazine Tikkun,
which is sponsored the meet-
ing.
"We want to say to the press
and the world that the
American Jewish leadership
interviewed so often by the
press does not speak for us,"
the magazine's editor said at
the opening session of the
conference.
The second purpose, said
Lerner, is to "challenge
ourselves," and to ask tough
questions of those on the left.
His words also opened the
way for disagreement among
the panelists. They included
Edward Said, a literature pro-
fessor at Columbia Universi-
ty and a member of the Pal-
estine National Council;
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a pro-
fessor at Northwestern Uni-
versity who also sits on the
PNC; Michael Walzer, a pro-
fessor of social science at the
Institute for Advance Study
at Princeton and a co-editor of
Dissent; and Letty Cottin
Pogrebin, founding editor of
Ms. magazine.
Said called on American
Jewish intellectuals to
become public "witnesses to
the present" and testify about
Israeli actions against
Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, in-
cluding shootings, the razing
of houses and expulsions.
"There has to be a recogni-
tion and acknowledgement
for the injustice done to our
people by yours, in your
name," said Said.
But in disagreeing Walzer
said, "It is not necessary for
the sake of peace that we ac-
cept your vision or you ours.
We can live in peace without
reciting each other's doc-
trine."
Likewise, Lerner countered
traditional Palestinian
assessments that Israeli
security concerns are the
product of paranoia.
"It is not paranoia when
Jews hear over and over again
in the Arab press, not of a
two-state solution, but of a
two-stage solution — with the
second stage after statehood
to be the liberation of the rest
of Palestine."
A galvanizing presence at
the session was that of Moshe
Amirav, a general in the
Israel Defense Force reserve
and a former Likud Knesset
member.
Said,
Acknowledging
Amirav said Israelis need to
be self-critical. He described
his own defection from Likud
to form a coalition of reserve
officers and intellectuals who
favor relinquishing the ad-
ministered territories in the
interest of security.
Amirav said he is willing to
say of the PLO, "Let's give
them a chance." What cannot
be ignored, he added, are the
"generations of suspicion of a
second genocide based on
repeated Arab assertions of
`driving the Jews into the
sea?"
Still, "there must be a new
thinking in Israel, and among
Jews in this country," Amirav
said. "We don't need any more
of your money, which I know
surprises many Jews. We
need peace."
Two new organizations
were to be launched at the
conference: a Network of
Jewish Progressive Students
and the Committee for
Judaism and Social Justice.
Tikkun describes the com-
mittee as an organization for
"those who don't feel ade-
quately represented by the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, the American
Israel Public Affairs Commit-
tee, the American Jewish
Committee or the Jewish
establishment."
Royal Mounties
Seek Survivors
New York (JTA) — The
Royal Canadian Mounted
Police is undertaking in-
vestigations into the plight of
Slovak Jews between 1938
and 1944. They are looking
for information regarding the
autonomous Slovakia totali-
tarian system called Hlinka
Slovak People's Party.
Additional information is
sought concerning the en-
forcement of anti-Jewish
legislation in Slovakia, and
the arrests, deportations and
executions of Jews from the
cities of Bratislava, Bardejov,
Banska Bystrica, Krupina
and Krennicka.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice