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It is nice of Mr. Horwitz to identify our priorities for us ("please, the American Jewish community has more important issues — and rallying points for justice and equality — than Jonathan Jay Pollard"). Non-as- similated Jews recognize older values as well, such as the mitz- vah of pidyon shivuyim (re- demption of a captive) and the principle that "he who saves one soul, it is as if he has saved the world." Jewish Americans recognize their responsibility as well to speak up for American values, if not to chastise the relatively few like Mr. Horwitz who are em- barrassed by "Pollard the poster boy." Sadly we must say to them the same as we say to others on be- half ofJonathan. Pollard: Enough already. PARIS 50°/0-70°/0 OFF ALL NAME BRANDS 21728 W. Eleven Mile Rd. Harvard Row Mall Southfield, MI 48076 age term meted out to those con- victed of the same offense as Mr. Pollard is four years. No one has ever served longer than Mr. Pol- lard for a similar conviction. To the contrary, the government re- cently has gone to the opposite extreme: Lt. Cmdr. Michael Schwartz, a (non-Jewish) 15-year Navy veteran, was found guilty of selling data to Saudi Arabia from November 1992 to Sep- tember 1994 — and was quietly discharged without having to serve one day in prison. Curious, isn't it, that the Schwartz case has attracted such scant public notice, much less ob- jection from an intelligence com- munity that has called for Mr. Pollard's head? (In 1991, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was widely quoted as saying that Mr. Pollard should have been shot for his crimes. In 1995, a Defense Department of- ficial issued a "confidential" warning to defense contractors that Jewish employees might spy for Israel.) Such is the stuff from which one might sniff a whiff of anti-Semitism. Mr. Horwitz quotes former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir as saying that Mr. Pollard's predicament may be a humani- tarian or moral problem, but not one for Israel to solve. That was in 1987. By the end of Mr. Shamir's term in office he fully realized that Mr. Pollard had en- abled Israel to prepare for the at- tack it endured during the Persian Gulf War. Thus his last official act was (810) 661-4050 Farmington Hills, Michigan 181 S. Woodward Ave. 1 Block South of Maple IN DOWNTOWN BIRMINGHAM (810) 642-1690 - en a New York jury onvicted two black men c convicted of violating the civil rights of a Jewish man during the 1991 Crown Heights riots, it served as a wake-up call to African-Americans everywhere. Many of us have become so comfortable thinking of ourselves as victims that we are slow to rec- ognize that we also can be vic- timizers. We sometimes — no, why mince words? — we often be- come so fixated on our own rights that we trample heedlessly and carelessly on the rights of others. It is as though in our minds, the civil rights laws apply only to blacks; instead of fighting for jus- tice, we fight for just us. No single incident illustrates the self-centeredness and bigotry of some in our community as Wiley A. Hall III is a columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American, where this first appeared. clearly as the Crown Heights af- fair. On Aug. 19, 1991, a car driven by a Chasidic Jew swerved out of control on a crowded Brooklyn sLieeet and hit two 7-year-old black boys. When an ambulance arrived on the scene, the paramedics al- legedly showed more concern for the Jewish driver than for the lit- tle boys. One of those children, Gavin Cato, died. Word of Gavin's death, and the alleged circumstances surround- ing it, spread throughout the black community of Crown Heights. Ri- oting erupted. Gangs of black youths roamed the streets looking for revenge against their Jewish neighbors. Why were they angry at Jews and not the city's ambulance ser- vice? Aha! There you see the un- reasoning mask of prejudice. And why were people rioting in the first place? Purportedly, be- cause they felt powerless to affect 1