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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Rabbi Bergers Zionism Letter By Robert M. Bartell WASHINGTON, D.C. (Liberty Lobby News Service) An American rabbi, Elmer Berger, wrote the Arab Ambassador to the UN recently. As president of Jewish Alternatives to Zionism, Inc., he reprinted hi's letter as a full page ad in the Washington Post and other papers. Because the UN is now being excoriated in the press on its vote that Zionism is racist, the ad did much to explain the difference between Zionism and Judaism. Rabbi Bergers letter begins, As an American Jew, and a long-tim- e anti-Zionis- t, welcome your invitation to attempt to clarify the meaning of Zionism in the context of the recent United Nations debate. It is, in my opinion, unfortunate that the problem was not addressed more precisely in the course of the debate. It should be made clear that there are a number of varieties of Zionism. There is Messianic Zionism, held as a I ' tenet of faith by many tian faiths as well as by Judaism. And then there is Israeli Zionism, state oriented, predicated on Israels Declar-atio- n of Independence in 948, which said, Israel will Chris- 1 be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of Exiles. Berger then goes on, It is clear that the process .of building a state for the Jewish people, identified either by religion or birth by a Jewish mother, continues within the framework of a democracy of privileging Jews in Israel. This affects the struc- turing of the economy, educational opportunities, rights of political organizations. A Stand December public subsidies for activities such as agriculture, provisions of public services such as roads, utilities and housing, among others. Israel is a state, therefore, in which if apartheid is not as blatant or as territorially visible as South Africa, Jews are nevertheless more equal than others. The application of Zionist laws makes discrimination a matter of national politics. This being so, it is an abandonment of democratic principle to accuse those who oppose these public policies of malevolent or obscene motiva- Saturday Night Specials by because they are cheap posedly unsafe guns. Ex- aminer. Referring to the in of America, Levine said, in part, The main cause of in the U.S. is not the Ku Klux Klan or Liberty Lobby or the Minute Men. The main cause is our Jewish causes anti-Semitis- m anti-Semitis- m short-sighte- 20003. 1987 USAs REAL BICENTENNIAL This 1976 Bicentennial is really but the first of Americas three Bicentennials. It was in 1776 that we declared independence, but not until 1783 was a peace agreement reached and independence recognized, and not until 1 787 was a United States established by the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America America. It was on this latter date that became established as a unique nation, where the people gave the government the only powers it had, and carefully limited those powers. Those powers had to do with the external objects such as war, peace and foreign commerce; while all other powers related to internal affairs within each of the states was reserved to them, and included the concerns of lives, liberties and properties of the people and the internal order, commerce, education, and so on. It was the Constitution that determined what the Presidency was, what the houses of Congress were, and what the Supreme Court was. Yes, its the Constitution that determines what the Supreme Court is, not the court that decides what the Constitution is. But the overthrowers of America would have it otherwise, substituting the rule of men for the law which is the Constitution. So in 1976, let us surely look ahead to the 1987 Bicentennial of the United States of America, to insure that we wont have lost by then all that our founding fathers set out 200 years ago to establish. After all, what could it avail us to observe our declaration of independence if we fail to observe the anniversary of the Constitution that made us the United States, the United States of America? Earn $100-20- 0 per wk part-tim- e Earn $200-40- 0 per wk. lull-tim- e Salary or Commission representing Said the Soviet citizen from his Siberian jail cell, All I said was, why dont we check up on the KGBs activities? ht 920-pag- so-call- ed LIVING SCRIPTURES Salt Lake City Ogden - 399-03- 466-45- & 1975 The 1228 S. 8th East 51 )MUSIC COM PANYj Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 5 Phone (80 i) 50 Across from Salt Palace 486-982- WE BUY - SELL AND TRADE TOUCH-A-MATI- C PHONE WILL BUY SILVER i TOP MARKET PRICES Continental Trading 65 South Wtif Temple Stroot Salt Lako City, Utah 84101 8 Phono: 227 West 600 South self-dialin-g. M ic automatically as well as functioning as a normal phone. It is especially useful in banks, real estate firms, travel offices, insurance companies, advertising agencies or any business that constantly deals with the same customer or suppliers. Hill pointed out. The new phone prevents dialing mistakes on frequently called numbers and will dial up to 31 local or long distance numbers by touching a button. Up to 15 digits per number can be stored in each space, allowing local, long distance and International Direct Distance Dialing numbers to be stored. Another button, labeled Last Number Dialed provides access to a Scratch pad memory which automatically records the last number a customer dials manually. Pressing this button automatically the number, useful if the customer gets a busy signal or wants to cali back someone he or she has just dialed manually. Additional information about the new telephone is available from Bell. 364-6S1- Salt Lake City. Utah 84101 Phone (801)531-645- 7 According to Kenneth O. Hill, Utah Public Relations Manager, the new Touch-a-Mattelephone has the ability to remember up to 31 phone numbers and dials them Mountain PIANOS Bars and Medallions Mountain Bell has introduced a new telephone for businesses that is John Birch Society Features AMERICAN FLYER TRAINS Buy Sell-Tr- ade Repair Contact BILL KING Utah's Largest and 57 Fastest-Growin- Oakland Avenue g i Independent older than 2 months 12 for SI. 00 Subscriptions: USA $10.00 per year Foreign $15.00 per year . Utah 84115 25C each I 12 for $2.75 25 for $5.00 50 for $9.00 100 for $17.50 The UTAH INDEPENDENT 1 i Subscription Weekly Salt Lake City Assorted copies re-di- als The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. -- John Quincy Adams Safety Not The Real Concern In 1971, the U.S. Treasury Department financed a test of fifty-eigdifferent models of small handguns. Each weapon was fired as often as 5,900 times under very severe conditions in order to test it for safety and endurance. e Treasurys eventual report showed revolver was just as that (1) a $25 American reliable as a $225 import; and (2) an inexpensive import ($14.95) failed at about the same point as a more expensive ($57.50) American-mad- e weapon. The report gave no evidence to prove that a Saturday Night Special presents any greater safety hazard than does a more expensive weapon. Someone once remarked that the campaign against Saturday Night Specials was a campaign to keep poor people from owning a gun. It is certainly that, and more. It is a big step in the direction of banning everyones right to keep and bear arms. Noses In Tents Who is there who has not heard the story about the camel who succeeded in sticking his nose into the tent? He soon entered the tent and eventually drove everyone else outside. For years, government at every level has been sticking its nose into all kinds of tents. Experience Full Time Part Time d, Readers comments are welcome. Please pass along any points of view to Liberty Lobby, 300 Independence Dept. 12-5- , Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C sup- tyranny. leaders and many Jewish people, who are becoming more and more dogmatic, inflexible and arrogant. In this country the Jewish people are treated better than any other country in the world, including Israel. Tltis mood may soon disappear unless sensible reason prevails. We couldnt have said it better ourselves. and therefore A Differing View If a person approached a licensed gun dealer and asked for a Saturday Night Special, he would betray his ignorance. For, amazing as it may seem to some, there is no such item available. Because a gun dealer knows what is meant by the term, he might lead his potential customer to a display of inexpensive handguns. And if the customer satisfactorily complied with the many existing legal requirements for gun ownership, there might eventually be a sale. All of which leads us to a significant point: Whatever else the term Saturday Night Special may mean to some, it always means a gun. And therefore, the drive to ban private ownership of Saturday Night Specials is a drive to ban private ownership of guns. This is a clear invasion of the Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms enunciated in the Second Amendment. It is also an invitation to nic derivation, then the Zionist character of much basic Israeli law qualifies. Recently a Jew named Alvin Levine wrote an article for the Jewish periodical an has shown us, especially in the case of the federal government, that a little government involvement usually leads to total control. For instance, the federal nose in the public school tent was the lunch program. Out of that initial step came the justification for more involvement, leading to federally mandated forced busing and the practical federal control of our schools. And Medicare was the federal nose in the tent for socialized medicines promoters. After Medicare for the aged came Medicaid for the poor, and now Professional Standards Review Organizations (P.S.R.O.s) are total bringing us closer to the obvious goal control of medicine. The campaign against Saturday Night Specials is nothing more than the federal government sticking its nose in where it doesnt belong in the expectation of gaining additional powers later. If the federal government is allowed to ban private ownership of one type of gun, then it will soon ban private ownership of all guns. Whoever coined the phrase Saturday Night Special must now be insufferable. Virtually every man, woman, and child in the United States is using the term. But what is a Saturday Night Special? According to most Americans, it is a cheap, unsafe, and easily available weapon that is widely used in the commission of crime. The emphasis invariably falls on the cheap and unsafe character of these weapons, because the drive to rid the nation of Specials is proceeding not so much because they are guns, but cially legislated upon the basis of creed, color or eth- Week-Americ- John F. McManus Belmont, Massachusetts tions. Rabbi Berger adds, 1 am unsure of what racism may mean to all of those who participated in the UN debate or have been witness to it or some of its side shows. But if racism is a form of government or a structure of society in which national rights and responsibilities are offi- Jewish The Utah Independent Page 5 18, 1975 i l |