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...past few years, many Western diplomats and political leaders have come to agree with this view. So have a growing number of Israelis and even some of their American Jewish supporters. Says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "There will never be peace until there is a rapprochement between Israel and the Palestinians...
...does Begin seem at all inclined to put the brakes on the ultranationalist ambitions of the Greater Israel Movement, the Gush Emunim (Bloc of Faithful) or Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League. By political pressure and sometimes by becoming squatters on Arab land, these zealots have pushed their country into an angry standoff with the Palestinians of the West Bank, which Begin refers to as Judea and Samaria, their names in biblical times. Since Begin's government came to power in 1977, both the number of settlements and the number of their inhabitants in the West Bank...
...Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, is something of a rarity: a Jewish American who openly professes compassion for the Palestinian people and recognizes the need for coexistence and mutual trust. "I feel almost a kinship with the Palestinians," says Rabbi Schindler. "The role they are playing in the Arab world is not unlike the role of the Jews in the world: rootless wanderers...
...squatters in Hebron are followers of Miriam's husband, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a leader of the Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement. Levinger, who lives in Qiryat Arba, spearheads the extremist drive to populate the West Bank with Jewish settlers. He and his followers believe it is the "divine right" of Jews to settle anywhere in the land of biblical Israel...
...major foreign policy gaffe" and the vote "inappropriate, unwise and unjustified," Kennedy met in Manhattan with a group of Jewish leaders who were furious over the initial U.S. vote supporting the resolution. As a prominent activist bluntly put it: "We're looking for someone to love." Said Rabbi Alexander Schindler, who endorsed Kennedy months ago: "There is a sense of betrayal which is going to manifest itself in support for Ted Kennedy...