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From: jim@ISM780B.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A question of Allegiance
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 03:48:00 EST
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>/* ---------- "A question of Allegiance" ---------- */
>In view of last week's spy scandal (An american jew spying for
>Israel, against the US) a question should be raised:
>Are american jews allegiant to the US ? or to Israel?
>The fact that some of them are ready to betray their country
>the US, for Israel -even when the US is the strongest ally
>and defender of Israel- sheds some doubts as to their allegiance.
>Any comments??

Look, this was *one individual*!  There is this ridiculous tendency to
lump people together, whether they are Jews or Marxists or Christians
or blacks or whites or men or women or whatever, and it ISN'T VALID.
People are individuals.  This particular guy was a spy in the pay of Israel;
that is what he did for a living.  Almost all other Jews are not.
Most Jews, regardless of their feelings about Israel, have a reverence for
law.  Their U.S. citizenship defines their responsibility.

I don't have much allegiance to anyone, and I think the anti-semite horn
gets blown far too readily, but I find this idea VERY DANGEROUS.
Americans of Japanese ancestry lost their homes and possessions and
were INTERNED in concentration camps during WWII just because of their
appearance.  Many of them had never been to Japan and some didn't even
know Japanese.  Despite the internment a number of them formed an army unit
that was *the most highly decorated unit of WWII*.  The internment was totally
*unjustified*.

If you want to talk about Israeli spying policy toward its allies, fine,
but when you lump all American Jews together you are talking about *me*.

STAMP OUT RACISM AND BIGOTRY!.  Treat EVERY human being as an individual!

-- Jim Balter (ima!jim)