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and Treblinka? When we said,
"Never again," did we mean nev-
er again another Jewish Holo-
caust or never again a genocide,
that we would stand as defend-
ers and combatants with Native
Americans, Armenians, Roma
(Gypsies), and now the Bosnian
Muslims against the possibility
of any people being destroyed.
As Rabbi Wolkoff implies at
times, there are not enough of us
to defend ourselves alone. We
need allies. The only way to
achieve stable peace cannot be
by cynically training
Guatemalan death squads as a
favor to the United States, or by
smuggling arms to South Africa's
apartheid state. When times get
tough, these allies will abandon
us as cynically as they befriend
us while we do their dirty work
and sully ourselves.
It cannot come through deny-
ing to the Palestinian people
what we claim as our inherent
right: self-determination and
statehood. Is this how we pay
back the memory of the Right-
eous Gentiles, the individuals,
the villages and the entire nation
of Denmark?
Now, when we have a state
and weapons of our own, what
will we be able to demand of
them next time, if this time we
stand idly by? (The statements
of Elie Wiesel and the participa-
tion of Jewish women and men
in feminist-organized demon-
strations against the policy of
rape in the service of national-
ism are admirable, but not suf-
ficient.)
Righteousness is not easy. But
it is commanded in Deuterono-
my and elsewhere that we pur-
sue such a path. Conveniently,
it is also the surest way of as-
suring the long-term survival of
the Jewish community.
Michael Sasson
Detroit
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Peace Opponents
Stage A Rally
Jerusalem (JTA) — Some
50,000 Israelis opposed to a
peace accord with the Pales-
tinians poured into
Jerusalem, clogging road-
ways and bringing parts of
the city to a virtual stand-
still.
More than 2,500 police
were on hand to maintain
order at the demonstration,
which had been planned by
right-wing opposition groups
and had been heralded with
much advance publicity.
The demonstration, which
was held near the offices of
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin, followed a rally on
the weekend in Tel Aviv for
supporters of the proposed
peace agreement.
According to the police,
some 40,000 Israelis had at-
tended the previous demon-
stration, although estimates
on both rallies varied wide-
ly, with some sources repor-
ting up to 200,000 at each.
The agreement, which was
endorsed last week by
Israel's Cabinet, calls for Pa-
lestinian self-rule in Gaza
and Jericho as a first step
toward extending Palestin-
ian authority to the ad-
ministered territories.
It was reached after mon-
ths of secret meetings by
high-level Israeli and
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization officials.
While a helicopter pa-
trolled from above, police
made several arrests during
the latest rally. They also
confiscated tires, gasoline
and firecrackers that had
been hidden by the demon-
strators, apparently to be set
afire during the demonstra-
tion.
Hours before the rally
began, police began closing
off several major roads
around the city. Others were
jammed with buses bringing
settlers from the territories.
Among those arrested, ac-
cording to police officials,
were several activists with
the militant Kach move-
ment who had threatened to
provoke civil unrest.
"Is there anyone among us
who believes Yassir
Arafat?" asked Likud chief
Benjamin Netanyahu, one of
the headline speakers at the
rally, referring to the leader
of the PLO. 0