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TH E DE TRO

When Yassir Arafat learned
just a few months ago that the
Conference of Presidents of Ma-
jor Jewish Organizations had
voted to accept Americans for
Peace Now as a member, did he
conclude that American Jews
— who, as is well known, con-
trol everything — might sup-
port an honorable resolution to
the conflict?
In short, and in retrospect,
everything makes sense, and
everyone played a part. Stanley
Sheinbaum and Rita Hauser
and Menachem Rosensaft who
went off to meet with Mr. Arafat
in Stockholm some years ago,
thereby encouraging • Mr.
Arafat's movement away from

the PLO Covenant — as also,
perhaps, all those who re-
sponded to their trip with fierce
criticism.
And so forth. With the puz-
zle as complete as we can make
it, all its pieces in place, now ask
which piece(s) you can safely re-
move without disturbing the
outcome.
And the answer is: Who
knows? Which is what makes
the work of a historian so haz-
ardous, as we first learned from
George Herbert 360 years ago:
"For want of a nail the shoe is
lost, for want of a shoe the horse
is lost, for want of a horse the
rider is lost." And for want of a
rider, the war.

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ADL Writes Clinton
About Pollard

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New York (JTA) — The
leaders of the Anti- Defama-
tion League have written
President Clinton, asking
him to commute the
sentence of Jonathan
Pollard.
The letters, sent on the eve
of Rosh Hashanah by ADL
National Chairman Melvin
Salberg and National Direc-
tor Abraham Foxman,
reflect the continuing accep-
tance of the campaign for the
former U.S. Navy analyst's
freedom by the mainstream
of the American Jewish
community.
Not until this past year did
organizations such as the
American Jewish Com-
mittee and the American
Jewish Congress adopt
cautiously worded
statements asking for a pres-
idential review of Mr.
Pollard's life sentence for
passing secrets to Israel.
Because the Anti-
Defamation League remains
one of the few organizations
not supporting the pro-
Pollard campaign, Mr. Fox-
man and Mr. Salberg wrote
their letters as expressions
of their individual, not
organizational, views.
Mr. Pollard's lawyers have
filed a request for commuta-
tion with the Justice
Department. Mr. Clinton re-
cently promised to "give
consideration to all the rel-
evant facts in order to make
a fair and just determina-
tion" once he receives a
Justice Department recom-
mendation on the case.
Sheldon Rudoff, president
of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of

Bill Clinton:
Will consider the facts.

America, visited Mr. Pollard
and said the former analyst
was encouraged by the
letters of the ADL officials.
Mr. Rudoff reported that
Pollard, who was recently
moved from maximum-
security prison in Marion,
Ill., where he was kept in
solitary confinement, to a
medium-security facility in
Buttner, N.C., was "very
positive in his attitude."
Mr. Pollard is now sharing
a dormitory room with 40
other inmates and is work-
ing eight hour a days as a
cutter in a prison factory.
"He seems a rehabilitated
person," said Mr. Rudoff,
whose group is organizing a
nationwide petition drive on
Mr. Pollard's behalf at its
hundreds of Orthodox syn-
agogues. "He does not want
to be deemed a hero or be
remembered for this."
Mr. Pollard was thankful
for all the people who are
supporting his effort to be re-
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