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...Bloom agrees fervently with all of Israel's military goals. He says Israel should occupy and establish civilian settlements in the Sinai peninsula; that it should hold the Golan Heights for its strategic value; and that the United States should heavily arm Israel...
...final object of Israel, Bloom says, should be to "bring the war home to the Arabs without too many civilian casualties so that they won't ever make war on Israel again. Also I hope the Syrians will be forced to release the 7000 Jews they are holding in Syria. Life for them is one continual hell-torture and intimidation. The Syrians won't let them return to Israel...
...Bloom doesn't feel alone at Harvard in his strong support of Israel. "I'm not surprised that people aren't actually going to Israel," he says. "You really had only two or three days to make a decision, because after that you would lose a lot of tuition money if you went this semester. If it had happened in late summer, there would be many more. There's been a lot of good reaction here, both among Jews and non-Jews-a lot of money's been given...
...However, Bloom's old friends from the Jewish defense League haven't been very active in supporting the Israeli war effort; most of them prefer to work through the more established channels of Hillel. The JDL is not an official undergraduate organization at Harvard, and although at times it has been very active it is rather loosely organized now. Bloom left the JDL last year because, he says, "I was spending more time on the JDL than on school...
...elderly Jews in Mattapan and Dorchester who were getting attacked on the street just like the kids in the camps were. The JDL has done a lot to inspire the young Jews in America and to get Russia to let the Soviet Jews emigrate." Defending world Jewry is, for Bloom, a very important and very serious business, especially where Israel is involved. Bloom called Israel "the only country in the world faced with total annihilation if they lose...