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IN OUR 45TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FT. WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
VOLUME 45, NO. 3
Texas Jewish Post
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17,1991
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Their Finest Hour
As the United States agonizes and prays tor a quick and peaceful solution to
the Persian Gulf crisis one still has to pause with admiration and pride over the
conduct of the Congress during the historic debate which ended last Saturday.
It is always easy to take pot-shots at our legislators. The pundits castigate them
and blame them for everything from mismanagement to perjury, cajolery and
wheeling-dealing. Wasn’t it Will Rogers who coined the phrase, “We’ve got the
best Congress that money can buy?’’
No one ever stops to consider that these chosen men and women are dedicated
individuals who try to represent their constituents with responsibility and com-
passion.
This was again demonstrated last Saturday and the two days prior during the
historic debates in the Senate and the House of Representatives over the
resolution to grant President Bush the authority to use force in the Persian Gulf
against the regime of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
The debate from both sides of the aisle and each side of opinion was intelligent
and emotional. Confreres highlighted reasons with clarity and without rancor.
Indeed, most even voiced the prayer, that regardless how the vote was decided,
when the decision was made we had to all join together for the benefit of our
democracy.
We are indeed living in historic times. Those who have the good lortunc to
watch C-Span are privileged to be a part of history in the making.
Members of the Senate and House are to be congratulated by their constituen-
ts.
Whether they voted or voiced opinions for or against the resolution, this was
indeed their finest hour.
Our earnest hope and prayer is that the crisis will be solved and the cause of evil
will be silenced and that soon all men can join in the Brotherhood of Man under
the Fatherhood of God.
We all pray for the day when swords will be beaten into ploughshares and war
will be eradicated.
But when a madman unleashes a poisonous force and promises to reduce his
neighbors to ashes, someone has to come to the defense of the victims and also
prevent a genocide from exterminating nations and peoples.
The United Stales has chosen this cause.
It is this nation’s finest hour as well.
Jewish Institutions in U.S. Warned
To Take Extra Security Precautions
NEW YORK (JTA)—
Jewish institutions across
the United States have
been warned they should
review security precau-
tions in light of the in-
creased threat of
terrorism on U.S. soil that
a war in the Persian Gulf
is likely to generate.
The National Jewish
Community Relations
Advisory Council late last
week sent out an advisory
to its more than 100
member agencies, recom-
mending that security ar-
rangements for office
buildings, community
centers, synagogues,
cemeteries and other com-
munal facilities be double-
checked.
The advisory urges
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caution when handling
unusual or suspicious
looking parcels, and it
suggests Jewish agencies
consider employing
private security services.
“We wanted all the
organizations and agen-
cies to review their ar-
rangements, specifically
in light of reports of
threats of increased
potential for terrorist ac-
tivity attendant to the
Gulf crisis,” said Jerome
Chanes, NJCRAC’s co-
director of domestic con-
cerns.
The Conference of
Presidents of Major
American Jewish
Organizations is holding a
meeting Thursday to dis-
cuss security at Jewish in-
stitutions.
Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein has repeatedly
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ISRAELI ALERT—Two teams of Israeli Air Force F-16 crews practice cutting
down response time. According to reports, many pilots remain strapped in their
cockpits which also saves an additional vital 90 seconds.
By Hugh Orgel and
David Landau
TEL AVIV (JTA)—
The Israel Defense Force,
reportedly acting on intel-
ligence estimates that war
in the Persian Gulf is now
inevitable, is on the high-
est level of preparedness
short of combat.
Civil defense prepara-
tions and the general at-
mosphere in the major
population centers could
be likened to Britain in
1939-40, in expectation of
the blitz.
Israel’s possible partici-
pation or involvement in a
war with Iraq remains un-
certain. Israel is not part
of the U.S.-led coalition
committed to force Iraq
from Kuwait.
But the Jewish state has
come under repeated
threats from Saddam
Hussein, echoed only last
week by Foreign Minister
Tariq Aziz, that it will be
the first target of Iraqi
missiles if Baghdad is at-
tacked by American for-
ces and their allies.
The IDF says it is ready
for any eventuality. The
air force was put on maxi-
mum alert in preparation
for the expiration of the
U.N. deadline for an Iraqi
pullout from Kuwait,
which was at 7 a.m. Israel
time Wednesday.
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U.S. Jewish Lawmakers Were Divided
Over Whether to Authorize Force
Bv David Friedman
WASHINGTON (JTA)
— Jewish members of
Congress were as divided
as their colleagues in the
votes Saturday in which
both the Senate and
House of Representatives
adopted resolutions
authorizing President
Bush to use the U.S. ar-
med forces to expel Iraq
from Kuwait.
The split was mainly
among Democrats, since
both Jewish Republicans
in the Senate and all six
Jewish Republicans in the
House voted to give the
president the authority to
use force if Iraq did not
leave Kuwait by the Jan.
15 U.N. Security Council
deadline.
Sen. Joseph Lieber-
man (D-Conn.) was the
only Jewish Democrat in
the Senate to vote for the
authorization, which was
adopted by a 52-to-47
vote. The five other
Jewish Senate Democrats
wanted to continue using
sanctions against Iraq be-
yond the Jan. 15 deadline.
But in the House, where
the resolution was adop-
ted by a vote of 250-183,
liberal, pro-Israel
Democrats, both Jewish
and non-Jewish, could be
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