European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes . Rosenthal Jackson has Opportunity in . To be healer 1 his enthusiasm for people like fide Cas Jesse Jackson s Campaign in new York gives him an Opportunity beyond politics and of grat value to himself and his country. Whether he wins or loses the primary the achieve ment will live if he seizes the Chance held out Elohim. Jarkon has it in his Power in new York to dispel once and for All the fear among 10 Many american jews thai by what he has said or not said he has shown anti semitism or at least distaste fur jews. This would be a Healing Balm for All american society there is no use and a lot of harm in dancing around inc Mcalily that unease exists i irritates Jackson. He considers in unfair Bui it i Isle. The Job of a National Leader which Jackson has become is to confront an unpleasant reality Grap ple with in and change it. Jackson can face the Issue in new York neither As penitent sinner nor mis understood victim but is u major Politi Cal figure who has the obligation to Liy ceaselessly to convince every minority that he can speak for them and under stands their problems and tremors. Even if he does he will not sweep the jewish vote. His foreign defense and economic policies May Sull be too vague or Iii left for Many jews As they Are for other voters Bui that is precisely How americans should have the thancy to vote on the candidate s total political stance unclouded by doubts about what he really thinks about them their Community or their religion. It is time to put aside the Hymie town remark. The on a americans who have inc right to keep bringing it up since Jackson has said he regrets it Are those who have never made any racial or religious cracks them solves. Assembled they would barely crowd a compact car nor should  single out Jackson for condemnation fur support ing a palestinian stale since that is what some american jews and israelis Are advocating themselves. Then Why the fear if a Man arouses suspicion among so Many members of one group he should ask himself Why. Something prevents him from under standing the implications of his refusal to renounce the Black racist Louis Farrakhan and his followers. It implies he just a minute gov. Lukakis Thlik the  rate if Massachusetts l a Quarter about for budget proposals vote i took a Rosmom that ir4 u6kt of today s1 Penelopi eds a a00dt you wife1 puts his Friendship with this Man of evil ranting above his relations with jews above his obligations to protect Ameri can society by stripping All bigots of respectability. Granted his right to support n pales Tinian slate most american jews cannot accept in inner peace his embrace of a Man and an Organ ipalion sworn by Cove Nant to destroy Israel Yasser Arafat and the Plo. And there is unease among jews about his enthusiasm e Lik Tro. Jews know dictators usually i have one thing in common Strong addiction to anti semitism. Jackson says he has tried to Calm jewish furs and he has so far unsuccessfully. He often conveys a Grump Oneis about the whole thing and 9 continuing insensitivity. Just the other Day he picked up inc Nasty code word being used again sen. Albert Gore pandering. That it the accusation against Core because he emphasizes support for Israel before jewish audiences in new York. Gore supported Israel Long before he became a candidate. To accuse him of pandering is bitterly unfair. To under stand what in really Means just fill in the phrase pandering to the  ugly Are candidates pandering to Blacki when they talk civil rights to Auto work ers when they make speeches Aboul for eign Competition to Farmers when they pose happily at hog pens Why does traditional campaigning for votes become pandering when jews Are being wooed not Long Ato at All. Jews and Blacks were political allies in this country brought together by the civil rights movement and a shared vision of Politi Cal Freedom. Doh groups have additional concerns now and sometimes their visions of the world Wilt conflict. But the suspicions and the Mutual bailing Are dangerous enough. Jews can help end them by trying a lot harder than they do now to understand Black perceptions of social Justice. And nobody can criticize Jackson for insensitivity without saying some thing about de Koch s remark that jews and other supporters of Israel would be crazy to Vole for Jackson. From the top official of a City with so Many Blacks and jews Loo Sharp and wounding. Like him or fight him what count about Jesse Jackson is that he is More inspiring to american Blacks than any candidate in history. It lies Wiitung his Power in new York to be not Only a politician but a healer thus inspiring to All americans including those who do. And particularly those who do not. Vote for him. Jim Fain Reagan has plenty of reasons of fire Meesey _. Cd r h  Hoh Miller a since the Harding administration. The two close an Odd new Champion of civil rights Percsi Den i Reagan is on solid if unaccustomed ground. It truly would be unfair to follow Craven Washington custom and fire de Mccase because of unproven charges against him. There Are. However a number of other reasons Why Mccase should be fired and never should have been hired. Such As incompetence insensitivity moral obtuseness and All round dumbness. A desc is a Small bore Guy whose transgressions arc As Petty As his character. The lip off was his allowing the army to reactivate him As a reservist and promote him to colonel when he came to the White House. They had t suddenly discovered any Well Cimon feb evil Warrior qualities they wanted a mend at court. A Csc just thought he d look better with a bit More a Tat a iwo bit transaction and a marvelous Rev Lati in of character. A Csc s no offs seem 10 have been uniformly Penny Ante which May be what has saved him from indict Cal. Bui if he does t play in the big leagues of influence peddling he has friends who do. E. Robert Wall a ii rats big and profiled commensurately from we tech and the iraqi pipeline project. A Franklyn r Chinn and Bruce Rappaport also arc High rollers. A desc s qualifications for office consist of a shallow right Wing ideology he shares with Reagan and a Talent for Reading and anticipating the Boss. He a a notorious administrative disaster spared embarrassment at the while House by appointment of the efficient Jim Baker. His credential As attorney general is similar. A devout right Winger he politicized the office and moved the judiciary to the right. Fortunately for the country his bungling sometimes negated his Zeal As in the poorly researched Ginsburg supreme court Nomi nation. There s no reason to suspect he fouled up the Iran Centra investigation As a White House defense. Such Fumble i Stedney is his nature. Instead of blaming him we ought to look to his protector and Loog time Friend Ronald Reagan but we Don t like to do that. We Lei Reagan gel away with misfeasance for which we would have Sung Carter or Ford for two Basic reasons he s a likeable old codger personally and after All those failed presidencies we re determined to pretend his one us Okay. That s the Teflon Coal. Reagan brought to town the Shab Biest Crew of aides sinc the. Closest to him Meuse and Mike a Caver. Are to Lbook example of ethical illiteracy. Their joint inability either to perform in the Public interest or comprehend in provides a telling commen tary on Reagan s own character. He was formed in a Hollywood ethical Snake pit. His insistence that neither Deaver Meese John Pom Deiler nor Ollie North Ever did anything wrong says volumes Aboul i sense of principle. Reagan does t need Money. He made Baump Bucks shilling right Wing ideology for general electric has Rich friends and though a professed hater of gov. Ernie no is protected for life by stale and Federal pen Sion to say nothing of the expensive Peris we Shower on espre Sideli. He never needed to Cut personal Cor ners. Deaver and Meese were relatively poor. Deaver thought big Mee Small. But they Are Bird or a Feather. Whether we like to admin it or not they re creatures of a president who  Leet brought them to the White House and still views them As Eagle scouts