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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...
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...
...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...
Accompanying Mondale, at U.S.-Government expense, were more than a dozen prominent U.S. Jewish leaders, including Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the outgoing chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and his successor, Theodore Mann. The White House hoped their presence might persuade the Israelis that the Administration's Middle East policies enjoy the backing of the American Jewish community. (Other U.S. Jewish leaders, however, refused to join the Mondale entourage.) From Israel, the Vice President planned to stop briefly in Egypt to see President Anwar Sadat...
...then, do they come? Israel Schindler, 27, secretary of Karnei Shomron, points to a nearby hillock and notes that from it Jordanian artillery gunners used to fire on Israelis living in Tel Aviv twelve miles away. By settling this region, he insists, Israelis are preventing the enemy guns from returning to that hillock. Giora Reuveny, 30, is a member of Tomer, a budding Jewish settlement in the sunny Jordan Valley; proudly surveying his six acres of corn, tomatoes and eggplants, he admits to the appeal of the good life at Tomer. Ruth Berchlingue, 46, a French-born Jew, came...