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14 Detroit Jewish News

AMY MINDELL

Special to The Jewish News

A

Selma Goode:
pushing for
peace in the
Middle East.

small but growing
group of
Detroit Jews have
decided they need
to speak out about the
stymied Israeli peace process.
The 80-member Jewish
Coalition for Peace in the
Middle East recently placed
an ad in The Jewish. News
and two national newspapers
calling on people to "Break
the Silence" and add their
signatures to a growing roll
of Michigan Jews who back
the Oslo peace accords.
The ad in The Jewish
News was undersigned by
locals who "do not back the
policies of the Netanyahu
government.
The Break the Silence
campaign hopes to foster
grassroots support for a
return to a policy of peace in
the Middle East, to pressure
the American government to
strong-arm Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and to
challenge what coalition
members see as local com-
placency Israeli politics and
a tendency of reflexive support for the
current Israeli government.
"The Jewish community on the
whole is very reluctant to criticize
anything the government in Israel
does," said Selma Goode, secretary of
the Coalition. "This reluctance
makes it seem as if the Jewish com-
munity as a whole is monolithic in
our policies, but there are significant
numbers of people who don't agree
with the goals of the current govern-
ment."
Coalition members say that a silent
majority of American Jews endorse a
return to the peace policy begun by
slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and are dismayed by the current polit-
ical climate under Netanyahu. The
Netanyahu government says that its
policies of delaying the return of West
Bank land until it has stronger guaran-

tees of nonagression will promote a
lasting peace.
Break the Silence was initiated by
three Jews — a Philadelphia Recon-
structionist rabbi, New York Jewish
Renewal/Jewish Holistic Rabbi Arthur-
Waskow and a Washington, D.C.,
consultant — who placed ads in the
Forward and in the New York Times. A
full-page ad will appear in the Septem-
ber 14 edition of the Jerusalem Report.
Waskow, the author of Down-to-

Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, the
Rest of Life, among others books, said

that he hopes the ads will spark higher
"levels of energy" among the American
Jewish community.
"There is a widespread sense of
despair, apathy and bafflement
among American Jews who support
the peace process," said Waskow, who
formed the original group with con-
sultant Cherie Brown, director of the

National Coalition Build-
- ing Institute, and Rabbi
Mordechai Liebling, former (—\
director of the Jewish
Reconstructionist Federa-
tion.
The original three hoped
to show pro-peace American
Jews that there were many
like-minded souls across the
nation. The founders plan
to start a national grassroots
movement to promote Mid-
dle East peace. In addition
to the Detroit group, two
other organizations have
taken on the campaign.
More than 1,000 signa-
tures have been collected
nationally, with nearly 100
in Detroit, Waskow said.
As a part of ongoing pro-
peace efforts, Waskow's
group has supplied informa-
tional packets to 120 U.S.
rabbis with peace-related
materials for use in High
Holy Days services. It also
plans to train activists to
participate more effectively
in the American Jewish
community on behalf of the
peace process.
Jewish Coalition for
Peace in the. Middle East
was formed nearly a decade ago, but
the group fell dormant in recent
years until the Break the Silence
campaign prompted the group to
reorganize.
Coalition member and Southfield
attorney Ken Knoppow, who is also
the local liaison for Americans for
Peace Now, said, "We think that the
Netanyahu government is destroying
the peace process. I think he's using
the silence of American Jews as a
political weapon in support of his own
policies.
"We wish to distance ourselves
from policies that we see as harmful
to Israel, as well as publicize our
views so that the Israeli public knows
that not every American Jew is happy
with the way Netanyahu is leading
Israel. Israel needs a peace process,"
said Knoppow.

