abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles) (03/30/84)
For those who are interested in exactly what Jesse Jackson has said which
is likely to offend Jewish people, I am posting the following:
"WHEN IT CAME TO THE DIVISION OF POWER WE DID NOT GET FROM THE JEWS
THE SLICE OF CAKE WE DESERVED... THE JEWS DO NOT SHARE WITH US CONTROL
OF WEALTH, BROADCASTING STATIONS, AND OTHER CENTERS OF POWER."
--Jesse Jackson on CBS's *Sixty Minutes*, Sept. 16, 1979
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When Jackson visited the Middle East a couple of years ago, he said,
"ONE WHO DOES NOT THINK (Yasir) ARAFAT IS A TRUE HERO DOES NOT READ
THE SITUATION CORRECTLY."
about the leader of the PLO which has introduced terrorism to the world
and viciously murdered people with no regard either for the lives of
their victims or the lives of their own people.
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According to New York State Assemblyman Dov Hilkind (D.--Brooklyn):
"Although it might be unpopular at this point in time in view of the release
of Lieut. Robert Goodman from Syria to disparage Jesse Jackson's image, I
feel nevertheless that American Jews should be informed of the threat to
Israel that Jackson would impose would he ever be elected to the Presidency.
The man is no less than an Anti-Semite."
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Finally, there is some question of whether Jackson really represents
the quality of the establishment black leadership which radiated outward
and forward in time from the civil rights movement and the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. I believe that Coretta King has not endorsed Jackson
to date. Jackson appears to be an opportunistic upstart who does not
possess the noble qualities of King or the good intentions of a Benjamin
Hooks and of the NAACP. He is a member of the "me" generation which
attempts to make personal gains at all costs without regard for others.
I believe he has transferred this "me" thinking over to the group comprising
his followers, but he does not have the ability to see all sides of the
issues that is traditional among American leadership.