[net.religion.jewish] Request to Chedley / a question of allegiance

aouriri@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri) (12/16/85)

> 
> Recently Chedley aroused a great deal of interest while speaking out 
> his concern about allegiance of US Jews. 
> 
> Chedley, please follow up before opening up a new can of worms 
> On behalf of net's Light Reading Club.
> Mike Cherepov

I received several reply mails and follow-ups to my original posting
raising the question of american jews'allegiance to Israel vs USA,
following a spy case a couple weeks ago.

Understandably, I offended some netters; I am sorry , but my
posting was not meant to offend them. The allegiance question
has been actually raised indirectly or obliquely by several
people in the media, including the NY-Times.

Contrary to the cases of several other spies caught spooking
against their country for money or emotional/sexual motivations, 
the troubling issue in the case of this american jew caught spying for
Israel, against the USA, was that he was doing it for IDEOLOGICAL 
motivations.
How do you think we should react if we catch an american spy passing 
classified information to Moscow, and doing it NOT for money
(in this country, dollar motivation is respected) or because he fell in
love with a lovely KGB operative, but because he believes in
the Communist ideology.?.

I think that for political reasons, the fallout and the
implications of this case have been diligently pushed under
the rug by the american and israeli political establishments.

I was surprised by the replies to my posting, who tried either
to duck the issue, or to hide behind anti-anti-semitism/zionism
rhetoric.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
CHEDLEY AOURIRI.