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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: What Happened to Nicaraguan Jews
Message-ID: <592@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 09:09:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 09:09:52 1986
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The charge of anti-semitism being made against the Sandinistas
is a red herring.  The following is a quote from an
article in the Star-Ledger analyzing the veracity of
Reagan's numerous lies in his Central American speech:
(Star-Ledger, March 21,1986, p.12):
(quoted without permission):
  "Reagan charged the Sandinistas had persecuted Nicaraguan Jews
   and desecreted a synagogue.   But two American Jewish leaders
   say the synagogue is  unused because most of the small
   number of Jews who were in Nicaragua before the 1979
   Sandinista revolution have left.

   Rabbi Balfour Brickner of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
   in New York, who went on a fact-finding mission in 1984,
   said most of Nicaragua's handful of pre-revolution Jews
   had close ties to the dictator, Anastasio Somoza, and left
   of their own accord.
   Brickner said Israel supplied Somoza with military hardware.
   ....
   
   In September 1983, the US Embassy in Managua reported it
   had "no verifiable ground" to accuse the Sandinista government
   of anti-Semitism.
   ....
 
   Hyman Bookbinder of the American Jewish Committee in Washington
   said he supports aid to the contras - but not because Jews
   have been mistreated by the Sandinistas."

Just as in Vietnam we are being subjected to a parade of lies
to justify an immoral policy.
           tim sevener   whuxn!orb