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Show ~ose (1/25/RJ) page 50 Mr. K Mr. R and it's more than that. It's a history, and it's more than that. It has a cement or a glue in and of itself that's more than being ·, ~ S: ~\\\ Jewish. So, ¢it~/a composite of all of these things, and it's even a nationality; it's part of a race. And it's more than any one of all of th6Se things. It's a composite entity, that's all ~t is. But, for what ever the entity is that's what we are. That's what we are is what that total entity is .••. you with being part Jewish, now don't misunderstand me, I'm not denigrating you indiv1dually I'm talking about the guy that doesn't go to show, the guy that only remembers that he's a Jew when you give him lox and bagel, we're all part of that one entity, that composite of God knows what. Even the Jew who's always in front when there's a big Jew-ish thing and you don't get a buck from him for the support or maintenance of anything Jewish. Even he is a part of our entity, part of our composite. That is for me, for me personally, what comes in conflict when you say to me "what comes first, America or a Jew? 1.1/hich am I first?" There are two different kinds of areas where these could come into conflict; one, for example, if the United States went to war with Israel. I wouldn't enlist, but I wouldn't resist the draft if I was drafted. And if I got in combat and I found an Israeli so~ldier in my sights, I'd squeeze that trigger with the best shot I got. You really would? Yes, I'm sure that's what I would do. I would pray to God that circumstance would never arrive. I would hope that the United States would have the same sensitivity that it had when 1t did send Italians to the front in Italy. And I would hope that they |
