Word: revs
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...people of Palestine, have suffered long enough, and it is time that the people of the world realize this. Support for the Israelis is fine as long as they agree to meet with the P.L.O. The Rev. Jesse Jackson [Oct. 8] and the other black leaders of the U.S. have taken a big step in achieving real lasting peace in the Middle East by meeting with the leaders of the P.L.O. and the other Arab countries involved...
...ever seen a picture of the Rev. Jesse Jackson hugging the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan after they have beaten or murdered innocent black children, then I might be able to give more credence to his pompous piety...
Perhaps they can also explain to the Rev. Jackson why the Jews maintained the right to reclaim their property after being driven from it 2,000 years ago, while the Palestinians who fled their homes after the war in 1948 maintained no similar right...
Many American Jews were angered and alarmed by the spectacle of the Rev. Jesse Jackson embracing Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, and of the Rev. Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joining Arafat in a chorus of We Shall Overcome. But to those who interpreted these odd scenes as a sign of black antiSemitism, a contradicting voice sounded last week. Said Vernon E. Jordan Jr., head of the National Urban League, in a widely publicized speech to a Catholic audience in Kansas City: "Black-Jewish relations should not be endangered by ill-considered flirtations with terrorist groups devoted...
Jackson was hardly fazed by the criticism. Continuing to defend the P.L.O. as "a government in exile," he met Jordan in Chicago, and Jordan said afterward that "we agreed to disagree without being disagreeable." Others on Jackson's side were less cordial. The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a onetime aide to Martin Luther King Jr., charged that Jordan had succumbed to "the plantation syndrome." The Rev. William Augustus Jones, president of the Progessive National Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members...