41* THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE SCHOOL Sunday, September 12 9:30am-12:00 noon JOIN US America And Israel Need Kerry As he told the Anti-Defamation New York League's national leadership confer- With ence earlier this year, "For the entire President 20 years that I have been in the Bush's United States Senate, I'm proud that approval ratings in my commitment to a secure Jewish freefall, Republicans state has been unwavering; not even are reverting once by one vote or one letter or one res- again to negative olution has it wavered. And as presi- campaigning. MENACHEM dent, I can guarantee you that that Among their tactics Z. support and that effort for our ally, is a deliberate effort ROSENSAFT to disparage and dis- a vibrant democracy, will continue." Counterpoint tort the unambigu- Kerry expressed the same resolute support for Israel when he addressed ously pro-Israel the American Israel Public Affairs record of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Committee's annual policy confer- According to one prominent ence more than seven years ago, on Republican apparatchik, April 7, 1997. "As Americans," he "Throughout his political career, said, "we owe it to our Israeli part- Sen. Kerry has never been a leader ners to stand with them so that they in support of Israel." Nothing could can negotiate from greater strength, be further from the truth. As an American Jew and lifelong Zionist, I to be an ally beside them, not an ally that undermines them." enthusiastically support Kerry in Moreover, Kerry not only under- this year's presidential election. stood the dire threat of terrorism To be sure, the American Jewish long before the Sept. 11 attacks community is not and should never made it an American priority, but he be a single-issue constituency. We steadfastly has rejected any justifica- care deeply about social issues. We tion for murderous Palestinian are dismayed by the appointment of attacks on Israeli civilians. federal judges who believe the "Terrorism," he declared in his United States is a Christian nation AIPAC speech, "is an incontrovert- or who would abrogate a woman's ible evil and an unjustified response, right to an abortion even if her life and the idea that every bitter dis- were in danger. We care deeply pute between Israel and the about civil and human rights at Palestinians can somehow justify home and abroad. And we believe Palestinian violence or justify" that our society bears the responsi- bility to help rather than jettison the Palestinian Authority President Yasser "Arafat's winking at it or less fortunate among us. should warrant the release of yet On all of these issues, Kerry's more Hamas leaders or could excuse views are in harmony with those the PLO's failure to rewrite its held by the overwhelming majority covenant — all of this reflects a of American Jews. Nevertheless, the moral blindness, a failure of courage issue that is and should be of great- that only encourages the cowards, est concern to American Jews is the the haters and the killers." safety and security of the State of Israel. Having followed Kerry's career for the past two decades, I The Saudi Factor know that Israel does not have and One clear difference between the could not have a stronger or more Bush administration and Kerry is reliable ally. their reactions to Saudi Arabian Strong On Israel anti-Semitism. After terrorists went on a deadly rampage in the Saudi All too frequently, American politi- city of Yanbu on May 1, Crown cal figures begin to utter pro-Israel Prince Abdullah announced on sentiments only as they embark on a Saudi TV that "Zionism is behind national campaign for public office. terrorist actions in the Kingdom ... I Not so Kerry. am 95 percent sure of that." Menachem Z. 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