Mortimer Zuckerman, past chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is quoted in the Jerusalem Post as saying in his introduction of Ariel Sharon at a meeting at Baruch College in New York on May 22 that, "I can assure the prime minister...the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community in America supports his overwhelming efforts to be a peacemaker".
Well, that's just...er...overwhelming. Or is he just gushing with enthusaism?
Be it as it may, it should be pointed out to Zuckerman and other outstanding and very rich American Jewish leaders (ever notice that not one Jewish "leader" is poor? you can't be a leader without money? intelliegence and wisdom is dependent on money?) that the very same words were uttered when Yitzhak Rabin and, later, Shimon Peres came to New York with the Oslo plan, one which proved a dismal and bloody failure.
Far be it from me to cast doubt as to the wisdom of American Jewish leaders.
All I ask is that they act and speak more circumspectly when faced with Israeli leaders claiming their plan for peace is the best and only one.
They have been wrong previously, and can be, and are most probably, wrong today.
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