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> http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=6243
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> `We've Lost Our Moral Voice'
> Report; Posted on: 2005-09-22
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> As disaffection with war grows, Jewish activism conspicuous by its
> absence. Israel is the reason.
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> James D. Besser - Washington Correspondent
> Jewish Week
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> When anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan set up camp outside President Bush's
> ranch compound in Crawford,
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5854">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5854 Texas, dozens of
> Christian leaders made pilgrimages to support her anguished cry about
> the death of her son in Iraq and her demand to speak to the president.
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> But only one rabbi - Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center in
> Philadelphia - joined her, despite polls showing that Jews remain
> significantly more skeptical about the war than the public at large.
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> Unlike the movement in the 1960s, today's expanding antiwar movement
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5836">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5836 is largely bereft of
> Jewish leaders and activists.
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> Even many Jews who oppose current U.S. policy are staying away because
> of a number of factors, including a strain of hostility to Israel
> among some leading anti-war leaders. Sheehan herself reportedly linked
> the Iraq war with Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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> That linkage www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5690">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5690 will be
> at the forefront of a major anti-war rally scheduled for Saturday in
> Washington by International ANSWER, a group that is calling for an
> "end (to) colonial occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti."
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> But the new mood of quiet also taps something deeper in modern Jewish
> life: a growing reluctance to speak out on any controversial subjects
> when speaking out could have damaging political consequences,
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5859">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5859 especially on the
> pro-Israel agenda.
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> Few communal leaders have taken positions on pressing issues such as
> Bush's policy of tax cuts, which could have a paralyzing effect on
> Jewish social services, as well as the nomination of John Roberts for
> chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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> For Jewish leadership, the Iraq issue "is all about Israel," said
> Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, director of the Hillel at UCLA.
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> "We've lost our moral voice," he said. "Our leadership is paralyzed in
> terms of its capacity to speak out."
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> Full article
> www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11410&print=yes">http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11410&print=yes
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> [Ed: The idea that for Jews there is today "...a growing reluctance to
> speak out on any controversial subjects" is a strange assertion.
> Organized Jewry has been increasingly hell-bent on asserting positions
> that are guaranteed www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=6187">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=6187
> to raise controversy. The homosexual agenda,
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5865">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5865 which the
> Anti-Defamation League is pushing full-throttle, cost the Democrats
> the 2004 presidential election, and is highly unpopular with Middle
> America. The war on Iraq -- which is solely being fought for Zionist
> interests, which everyone knows -- has ruined GW Bush's legacy and is
> uniting Americans across the political spectrum even as it consumes
> America's youth and drives gas prices through the roof. And the
> disturbing Jewish cultural war
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2248">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2248 on Christian beliefs
> and symbols, www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5821">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5821 even in
> the most petty situations,
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=6208">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=6208 is alienating
> evangelicals, www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5601">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5601 whose
> leaders were until now Zionism's best friends,
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5269">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5269 while reinforcing
> traditional Roman Catholic resolve
> www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5564">http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5564 against Jewish power.]
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> Source: Jewish Week
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> 2005 NationalVanguard.org.
Oui vey, confusion, conflict!
Jay
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