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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Call for a Moratorium on ENVY & RESENTMENT (Was: Re: Say it ain't so)
- Summary: Rep. Rangel warns New York Jews against criticizing the Mayor.
- Keywords: Zion on Earth
- Message-ID: <19492@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:33:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec3.015949.22567@bony1.bony.com> <1992Dec4.222026.3727@Princeton.EDU> <1992Dec18.003559.28805@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- In article <1992Dec18.003559.28805@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com
- (Jake Livni) writes:
-
- >Mayor Dinkin's record in recent weeks have earned him wide criticism
- >for misunderstanding Jews and rushing to support Black causes while
- >showing characteristic restraint when Koreans/Jews/Whites are unfairly
- >treated, especially when these people are attacked by other Blacks.
- >If Dinkins isn't anti-Semitic (and he strenuously denies it), then he
- >is at the very least biased. A lot of people have come to this
- >unfortunate conclusion recently. [Jake Livni]
-
- Criticize, criticize, criticize. That's what New York's Jews have
- been doing to Mayor Dinkins lately. Doesn't anyone remember that
- when David Dinkins ran against then-Mayor Ed Koch in the Democratic
- primary election, 30% of the Jewish vote went to Mr. Dinkins?
-
- No less of a public figure than United States Representative Charles
- Rangel (D. - N.Y.) has about had it with all this New York Jewish
- criticism of Mayor Dinkins. According to the _Jewish Press_ issue
- of Friday, December 18, page 1, "Mr. Rangel, who is a member of
- Congress recently made a comment to the effect that if the Hasidic
- Jews did not stop criticizing his dear friend, the mayor, and if
- they played a role in the mayor's re-election defeat, *there will be
- a major problem in New York City*."
-
- Is Mr. Jake Livni listening? Does he want a "major problem" (whatever
- that means) in New York City?
-
- >>>"Never again" means something, you know. A. M. Rosenthal hasn't
- >>>apologized for calling the riots in Crown Heights a pogrom and neither
- >>>will I. I notice that you haven't even touched on the abandonment of
- >>>the Jews of Brooklyn to rioting mobs but instead propose that my
- >>>criticism and fears are inappropriate and unwarranted. Good grief!
- >>>[Jake Livni, in an earlier article]
-
- More criticism! According to the _Press_ article, "Mr. Rangel also
- commented, 'New Yorkers aren't kind to people who talk differently,
- look differently and who don't act like New Yorkers.'" Mr. Livni
- and the other New York Jews have been warned, and by a Congressman,
- no less. How much longer is he going to continue posting articles
- to USENET critical of Mayor Dinkins?
-
- >How many Jews have to actually be killed in New York City before you
- >decide that "pogrom" is an appropriate term? [Jake Livni]
-
- Yes, and how many deaths will it take till we learn
- that too many people have died? There's gotta be peace.
- The late Congressman, Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Junior,
- in his great sermon, "One Day," called for a time when "the
- blood of my brother will no longer run in the dark alleyways
- of our cities, victims of brutality." He called for a time
- when all of us could "enjoy the sweetness of freedom, here;
- there's a Zion on Earth, if we stand together, walk together."
-
- My proposal for peace is an immediate moratorium on
- ENVY and RESENTMENT among all groups involved. We don't
- need anyone trying to divide us into "nice people" versus
- "slum people." Former Mayor Koch himself, in a column
- reprinted on Page 14 of the December 18 _Jewish Press_,
- writes that "Mayor Dinkins has been falsely denounced
- as a 'racist,' 'Jew hater,' or 'anti-Semite.' He is
- none of these."
-
- The Good Book says, "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you,
- do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who persecute you."
- So let's have that moratorium on ENVY and RESENTMENT, starting this
- very next Friday, December 25, which is both _Hanukkah_ and _Rosh
- Chodesh Teveth_. And while the moratorium is going on, I invite
- Congressman Rangel, as well as the Reverends Sharpton, Daughtry
- and Mitchell and (l'havdil!) Rabbis Avi Weiss and Sholom Klass
- (publisher of the _Jewish Press_), to participate in an earnest
- discussion (no flames, please) right here on misc.legal on how
- New Yorkers can return to the days when individuals and groups
- lived together in peace, each under its own vine and fig tree.
- Let's start planning how we can have Rev. Powell's "Zion on Earth"
- within the Five Boroughs of New York City.
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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