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...Connecticut-based organization Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., a nationwide affiliation of 1,000 clergymen and laymen, decided in September to give their 1974 Gandhi Peace Award to Viet Nam War Protester Father Daniel Berrigan, 52. (Previous winners: the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.) But after the controversial Jesuit sounded off on the Middle East war recently, attacking both Israeli and Arab leadership (TIME, Dec. 31), some of P.E.P.'s 45 board members objected. The organization's head, the Rev. Roy Pfaff, polled the full board to find out whether...
...sure, Berrigan was harsh with Arab leadership as well ("Their capacity for deception, remarkable even for our world ... their contempt for their own poor"). He also tried to soften his criticism by asserting that as "a priest in resistance against Rome" and as "an American in resistance against Nixon," he was "very like a Jew." Berrigan's remarks, his choice of audience, and his pose as an archetypal Jew infuriated Jewish leaders. Historian Arthur Hertzberg, noting that the Jesuit has never been to Israel, ticked off a number of factual errors made by Berrigan in an angry reply...
Acerbic Views. Berrigan's speech was still causing trouble last week. The American Jewish Congress protested plans to give Berrigan the Gandhi Peace Prize next month. And the Rev. Donald Harrington of the Community Church of New York withdrew from the presentation. Berrigan "has ceased to be a witness for peace," Harrington said. "His speech was not a prophetic utterance, only an inflammatory...
Most U.S. Christians do not share Berrigan's acerbic views on Israel. During the Yom Kippur War a nun arrived at the Syrian consulate in Manhattan to offer herself in exchange for an Israeli P.O.W. The First Baptist Church of Dallas took a half-page newspaper ad asking Texans to "support Israel." And hundreds of other church leaders and groups, according to a report by Rabbi...
...American Jewish Committee, "Israel would have been denied arms at the very moment the Soviet Union was pouring them in on the other side." Suggesting that Israel's presence was a permanent irritant to Middle East tranquillity, one top-ranking Protestant was far more brutal than Berrigan. "It is quite conceivable," he said, "that Israel may have to die for world peace...