An American Reform rabbi urged American tourists not to permit Arab terrorists to frighten them into cancelling their plans to visit Israel. Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, of Boston, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, said that was one of the prime aims of the terrorist campaign aimed at Israeli and other airlines serving Israel. Rabbi Gittelsohn spoke at a press conference on the eve of the Reform rabbinical organization’s 81st annual convention which opened in Jerusalem today. He said that all Americans who “love democracy and peace, feel morally obliged not to yield to Arab pressure and to continue their plans to visit Israel and support it in every possible way.” The CCAR also called on all governments and airlines to apply sanctions against nations that refuse to curb Arab terrorists. Rabbi Gittelsohn said however, that “It is unnecessary and immoral to apply such sanctions to Israel. Israelis do not blow up planes or attack civilian passengers.”
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