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Errol Louis' explanation of the vehemently anti-Israel views of Amilcar cabral ("Too Close For Comfort", 12/2/83) is curious indeed. In 1965, according to Louis, Cabral lauded "all that the sons of Palestine" were doing to "liberate their country." Mr. Louis calls this "authentic disgust at Israeli policies towards Palestinians in the occupied territories...
This interpretation of Cabral's views is Judicrous for one very simple reason in 1965, there were no "occupied territories"! Israel gained control of the West Bank in 1967. It is clear, then, that Mr. Cabral was not expressing his disgust with Israeli policy but rather his hopes for the liquidation of the Jewish State...
...vehemence with which some African nations attack Israel in the U.N., then, is not simply a product purchased with Arab petrodollars. Perhaps a good deal of it is authentic disgust at Israeli policies toward Palestinians in the occupied territories, and at the South Africa connection...
...supported the P.L.O. as their only effective representative and Arafat as their symbolic leader. But as the fighting between Arafat's followers and their Syrian-backed opponents grew worse, the mood in the occupied territories began to change, as Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij put it, "from despondency to disgust...
...reveal his own particular inner turmoil: Houghton's Brick, who is Big Daddy's son and Maggie's husband, drowns himself in alcohol and gradually becomes alive as he is forced to explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character's inability to accept his guilt about his feelings of love for his dead friend Skipper. Cox's Maggie exploits Brick's passivity and seeming impotence as she desperately tries to reawaken...