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CORRESPONDFurthermore . . . Milwaukee Wise. To the Editors: Thank you for including the letter of Pastor Richard Miles in the Oct. 28 issue of Commonweal. I share his . . . "dismay by the...
...Even granting the low esteem in which the UN is held these days, such a verdict of world public opinion cannot be ignored...
...I t is refreshing and consoling, to say the least, that amid all the criticism pro and con for just about everything that fills the printed pages today, someone is brave enough to remind us that courtesy, gentleness, kindness, and brotherly love still have a place in the publishing world of today...
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...American Jews feel increasingly that the Carter policy is in fact inimical to Israel, and there is therefore a strong tendency among American Jewish spokesmen to close ranks and avoid any internal dissent on issues involving Israel...
...This policy in turn led to a resolution in the General Assembly of the United Nations censuring Israel and calling the actions illegal and an obstruction to peace efforts...
...Witness the money presently flowing to Northern Ireland from Americans of Irish descent...
...They could have chosen the words religious education, but that implies classroom teaching...
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...The way things have been shaping up for Carter, he might be excused for thinking he will be associated with the Sadat initiative only if it turns out disastrously...
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...I am sure that there are many who share his sentiments, but have left them unexpressed...
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...CARTER Walter Cronkite won plaudits for his role i n the Sadat-Begin meeting...
...There is no reason American Jews should not have similar feelings about Israel, and without any charges of dual loyalty being raised, especially if Israel's survival seems to be at stake...
...And a study published in Commentary indicates that a confrontation on Mid East policy would draw strong political opposition to Mr...
...If that venture produces a breakthrough in the Mid East, we will be in a whole new ball game...
...Nevertheless, spokesmen for the American Jewish community have not criticized the Begin policy on this matter, and this is no doubt because of their conviction that the Mid East policies of the Carter administration constitute a threat to Israel's security and well-being...
...In recent months there has been a growing alarm in the American Jewish community about U.S...
...The Carter people have tried to present their case to American Jews...
...I share his . . . "dismay by the apparent disregard for the person of a brother in Christ" (re: Mr...
...Carter's policies...
...But if the Sadat trip does not produce striking results, the relationship of Mr...
...American Jews are increasingly upset at what they see as consistent pressure by the United States on Israel to make concessions to t h e Arabs, particularly to the Palestinians, and they were especially alarmed at the joint U.S.-Soviet statement which seemed to signal the reentry of the U.S.S.R...
...indeed, he suggested that too fervent support of some Israeli positions might harm Israel by hamstringing negotiations...
...should "pay more attention to the demands of the Arabs even if it means antagonizing Israel...
...Bishop Lucker, of New Ulm, Minnesota, was among the more than 200 bishops, cardinals, patriarchs and religious superiors called to Rome to discuss "all those 9 December 1977:774...
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...only Israel voted against the resolution which was approved by 131 votes...
...The word in English--catechismwbrings to people's mind the idea of a book...
...Only 27 percent of those interviewed in the New York Times-CBS Poll took the opposite view--that the U.S...
...To the Editors: I have read with interest, as I always do, your editorial for October 28 entitled "Economic Woes...
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...For President Carter the political consequences of such a falling-out would be severe, and administration officials are laboring mightily to avert it...
...The United States abstained...
...On the West Bank, for instance, the Begin government seems intent on increasing the number of Jewish settlements on the land won from Jordanian control in 1967, apparently on the Begin thesis that such land is not occupied but liberated...
...In the face of continued price inflation, largely brought about by monopolistic pricing, it is now proposed that increasing government deficits be incurred in order to stimulate a sluggish economy...
...The words religious studies give the idea of an objective approach rather than a commitment to religious life...
...In the course of that speech Mr...
...Italian Americans, German Americans, Polish Americans, Ukranian Americans--all have strong feelings for their people's original homeland...
...And President Carter made his own effort, pleading with Jewish leaders that "intemperance or partisanship" should not be allowed to thwart what might be "the best opportunity for a permanent Middle East peace settlement in our lifetime...
...This is a touchy issue, but whatever credit or blame accrues as a result of the Sadat trip, non-Jewish Americans should not allow it to become a divisive factor in our national life...
...There matters stood until the Sadat trip...
...The question of P.L.O...
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...Indeed those woes are deep and chronic...
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...Wherever the blame should lie, the fact is that so far the administration has failed completely to sell its case to the American Jewish community...
...When that is the case, no one feels free to criticize Israeli policy...
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...should give its "strongest support to Israel, even if it means risking an Arab oil boycott...
...A poll taken before the Sadat trip indicates that more than half of all Americans who follow Mid Eastern affairs support Mr...
...participation at Geneva and a possible Palestinian state is extremely vexing to supporters of Israel in this country, and a head-to-head confrontation with the Carter administration on the whole question of current Mid East policy is very possible...
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...I hope and pray that God blesses in a special way the work of Pastor Miles...
...Certainly American Jews by and large tend to have intense sympathy for Israel and why not...
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...At the heart of this potential confrontation is the suspicion in American Jewish circles that the administration is so anxious to appease the Arab oil nations that it would sacrifice Israel's vital interests in the process...
...Carter from a significant cross section of American society, with those "fervently dedicated" to the survival of Israel--Jews and non-Jews--making up about 27 percent of the American electorate...
...Mid East policy and a growing suspicion that the Carter administration is not Israel's true friend...
...This year's theme, chosen by the Pope after a series of consultations with the Episcopal Conferences, was: Catechesis of Our Day with Sepcial Reference to Children and Youth...
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...Carter and American Jews is likely to remain strained...
...So too did the recently departed Henry Kissinger, presumably for having initiated shuttle diplomacy in the Mid East...
...Carter made it clear that he would not bend under pro-Israel pressure...
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...This would make them numerous enough to constitute a veto group in national politics, and such opposition would have a "devastating effect" on Carter's chances for reelection...
...If we are ever to meet human needs adequately, or to develop clean sources of energy, it will have to be done through the effective competition of publicly and cooperatively owned enterprises, capable of curbing the power of existing monopolies...
...Prior to the Sadat trip, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance explained administration policy to a closed meeting of American Jewish leaders, and before the American Jewish Congress Andrew Young defended President Carter's role as an "honest broker" in the Mid East, insisting that administration policies would in fact bolster Israel's security...
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...But this is precisely the rub...
...Theology is only one part of the question...
...The root cause of those deficits is that the consumers of the nation cannot sustain an adequate market for monopoly-rigged prices...
...Catechesis, on the other hand, is a Greek word that conveys the idea that we are concerned with all of those things that go into making a modern Christian," he explained...
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...But did President Jimmy Carter get any credit, particularly among American Jews, where he badly needs it...
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