U.S. JEWS,
BREAK THE SILENCE
Yitzhak Rabin courageously pursued a course of peace through the Oslo Peace Accords. The current policy of the
Netanyahahu government is wrong. It reverses years of progress between the people of Israel, her Arab neighbors, and the
Palestinian people. WE CANNOT REMAIN SILENT.
We, the undersigned individuals, represent U.S. Jews who want a return to the courageous policies of Yitzhak Rabin.
We do not back the policies of the Netanyahu government. The time is now to organize Jews of every background to speak
out against the current Israeli government's return to a policy of fear and non-cooperation with her Arab and Palestinian
neighbors.
We call on all like-minded Jews to join us. Help us launch a national signature campaign and collect as many names
as possible of Jews who will say publicly that they do not support Netanyahu's policies. Help us show that the vast majority
of U.S. Jews endorse. a return to Rabin's policy, as expressed in the Oslo Peace Accords, to exchange land for peace. Let it be
known that we welcome the efforts of the Clinton administration to encourage the Netanyahu government to return to the
Oslo commitments.
We look forward to the fulfillment of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikva, hope. We maintain that just as the Jewish
people needs to live am chofihi b'artzeinu, a free people in our own land, so the Palestinian people needs the option to live as
a free people with their own state alongside us, in peace with us. We agree with Shimon Peres, who said, "Let me say it clear:
In order for there to be a Jewish state, there must be a Palestinian state." Join with Jews everywhere as we proclaim that we
are Jews who yearn for peace and a secure Israel. And this is the best way to bring about a secure Israel.
DO NOT LET YOUR SILENCE SPEAK FOR YOU
Av Amit
Rena Amit
Melvin Annis
Ron Aronson, PhD.
Beth Barclay, M.D.
Benjamin Ben-Baruch
May Blechman
Paul Blizman
Rabbi Stephen Booth
Eugene Burnstein
Rabbi Ernst Conrad
May Davidson
Al Dickman
Beth Dzodin
Alex Ehrman
Seymour Faber, PhD.
Toby Faber
Roberta Feinstein
Thomas Fleischer
Yolanda Fleischer
Arlene Frank
Annette Freedman
Nathan Fuchs
David Gates
Harry Gold, PhD.
Deborah Goldberg
Gerald Goldberg
Isadore Goldstein
Selma Goode
Jesse E. Gordon
David Green, D.O.
Gloria Hurwitz
Norman Naimark
Jack Hurwitz
Moti Nissani, PhD.
Susan Kane
Eugene Perrin, M.D.
Jack Kaufman
Mark Phillips
Sheryl King
Hyman Ratner
Ken Knoppow
Marilyn Ratner
Martha Kransdorf
Carl Reinstein
Nettie Kravitz
Stella Reinstein
Rene Lichtman
Rabbi Norman Roman
Judy Loebl
Francine Rosemberg
Ellen Luby
Deborah Salinger
Helen Mandiberg
Jeremy Salinger
Jack Mandiberg, M.D.
Helen Samberg
Sid Milder'
Bernard Schiff
David Moskowitz
Sara Schiff
Beatrice Moss
Judith Seid
Helen Naimark
Other names of Michigan Jews are still arriving.
Norma Shifrin, PhD.
Francis Shor, PhD.
David Silberg
Ethel Silberg
Joel Simmer
Rosanne Simons
Rudy Simons
Shirley Strom
Zvi Strom
Milton Tambor
Mot iroe Title
Diane Traurig
Henry Traurig
Joel Waldbott
Barbara Zabitz
Join the Break the Silence Campaign. Gather as many signatures of Michigan Jews as you can.
Send names, address and contributions to:
Metro-Detroit Jewish Peace Coalition
P.O. Box 401326
Detroit, MI 48240
Please add my name to the Break the Silence Campaign. I enclose a contribution of $
to help publicize it.
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can be good for economic reform."
On the plus side, he said, Mr.
Chernomyrdin enjoys good relations
with the Clinton administration, and
with Vice President Al Gore in partic-
ular.
But Dr. Freedman warned that an
accelerating economic slide could pro-
duce big gains for the communists in
the 2000 elections.
- That possibility, and the ever-pre-
sent danger of Russian ultra-national-
ists, has Soviet Jewry groups worried.
"These events are extremely dis-
turbing," said Gideon Arnoff, deputy
director of the Union of Councils for
Soviet Jews. "This kind of political
instability is combining with the obvi-
ous financial instability of the country
to heighten danger for Jews and other
minorities in Russia."
He expressed special concern about
extremist leaders at the regional level;
as an example, he cited Nikolai
Kondratenko, governor of the south-
ern region of Krasnodar, who has
imposed Soviet-style rule and initiated
a kind of ethnic cleansing since his
election in late 1996.
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Moscow proves itself less capable of
providing the stability people need,
there is the danger they will then turn
to these radical regional leaders," Mr.
Arnoff said. "We see that as a very
dangerous trend for Russian Jews."
Administration officials say
President Clinton, due in Moscow
next week for a quick summit, will
urge Mr. Yeltsin to press ahead with
economic reform. But few expect dra-
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Washington is still abuzz with
President Clinton's sex scandal tsuris;
tabloid writers and serious journalists
alike are breathlessly awaiting the
results of DNA tests on Monica
Lewinsky's famous dress, which may
graphically punctuate what Clinton
already revealed last week — that he
had a "not appropriate" relationship
with the young White House intern.
But the perpetually paranoid
Palestinian press didn't need to wait
for the results.
This week, the official Palestinian
Authority newspaper AI-Hayat Al-
Jadeeda reported that the dress —
indeed, the entire sex scandal -- was
just a scheme by Zionist plotters.
Clinton, the paper revealed, really