Still No Room for the Jew

(The following appeared as an editorial in the Jewish Press in 1991 when George Bush Sr was pressuring Israel. Its time seems to have unfortunately come around again.)

Still No Room for the Jew

Two thousand years ago the Roman Emperor Titus decided that there was no room in his empire for an independent Jewish authority. So he destroyed the Holy Temple, and carried off its captives to Rome.

Thereafter, in state after state in Europe, the Jew was forbidden to own land. In time Jews were herded into separate areas called Ghettos. Until fairly recent times, even in our own great democracy, the Jew was forbidden to dwell in "Aryan" pure areas.

Now -- yes now in 1991 -- the leader of the greatest democracy on earth is telling the Jew where he may or may not dwell in his own country! The poor "little "lonely guy" in the White House, Texas oil millionaire, patronizing patrician, is making threats against the Stubborn Prime Minister of Israel, that unless the latter stops building housing in certain sections for Russian immigrants escaping Russia, he will be punished.

Still no room for the Jew even after 2,000 years!