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Knowing as I do that it is difficult for The Crimson to be objective concerning Jews, and having written before to the editors, I am reluctant to write regarding the polemic outrage perpetrated by E. Hanauer ("Justice for the Palestinians," May 8). This diatribe was published on the 25th anniversary of Israel--a date on which other journals tried to impartially assess Israel's successes and failures...
Little concern is shown by Hanauer for the historical facts and actual behavior in the Mideast. Twenty-five years ago, two nations were created, one Jewish and one Arabic -- created with the expressed approval of the Arab leadership. Israel, then two small patches of land connected by an eight mile wide corridor, was immediately attacked by Arabs (armed by the retreating British). It is this attack which created the refugee problem; it is the irrational intransigence of the Arab leaders which held and still holds these refugees as political pawns. Israel, a nation barely one year old, offered then...
...final point: do Mr. Hanauer and those like him raise their voices when eleven Jews are rounded up in Baghdad and hung, when Syrian Jews live at the mercy and whim of the state, or in concentration camps in Iraq? In the face of such tremendous external pressure, no nation has been as even-handed or as liberal in its treatment of ethnic minorities as Israel. Let us pressure those who deserve to be pressured -- the governments in Amman, Cairo, Baghdad and so on. Laurence Cohen
Edmund R. Hanauer is executive director of the Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine of Waverley, Mass...
...agrees with Chisholm, the public-including supporters of Israel and those who seek a candidate free of the Israel lobby-has been illserved by the media which have failed to inform Americans as to the substantive positions held by Presidential candidates on vital issues. Edmund R. Hanauer...