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...TIME courageously and properly examines the growing dilemma American Jews face because of the intense political pressures exerted in American public affairs by a cohesive Zionist apparatus that, in reality, represents only a small fraction of the Jews who are U.S. citizens...
...Homeland. The anti-Zionist drive follows some characteristic Soviet patterns. There was a letter to Tass from a Jewish doctor in Uzbekistan: "We have never had and never will have anything in common with Zionists. We have only one homeland: the Soviet Union." Meetings of Jews were held in factories and on farms to proclaim their satisfaction with life in the Soviet Union. A group of rabbis condemned Zionists as evil men "who every day sow death and destruction on the occupied Arab lands...
...weeks ago the campaign reached an unusual pitch in Moscow. At a government-sponsored press conference in Friendship House, a panel of prominent Jews appeared before foreign newsmen to explain an anti-Zionist statement that had been signed by 52 of them, including Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Their statement declared that Zionism "expressed the chauvinist views and racist ravings of the Jewish bourgeoisie...
...Israel and unfailingly are refused by the Soviet organs. We believe that Jews will answer the anti-Israeli campaign by fortifying their pride in their people [and] by declaring: 'Next year in Jerusalem!' " Izvestia denounced the petitioners as "renegades who have long been known for their Zionist views." Later, 21 other Jews scathingiy noted in an open letter to the 52: "Unlike you, we are not Jews only because this detail is noted on our identification cards. We deeply treasure the indissoluble ties that bind us to Jews of all countries...
...average American Jew has no difficulty reconciling support for Israel with loyalty to the U.S. Obviously he rejects the Zionist formulation once put forward by David Ben-Gurion that "whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." He can buttress his passion with reason. Israel is a democratic, modern, stabilizing force in a chaotic and brutally backward corner of the world. The Israelis have created a nation and made the desert bloom, thereby more than earning their right to national existence. Israel needs U.S. support to survive, and if Israel were some day to fall...