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...realize that we have to fix our own world first, that we actually do have some control of our destiny and that the West is not our enemy. All proud Arabs must see harsh dictators and radical manipulators for what they are and not as heroes. AMIN K. KAWAR Amman...
...Leila C. Kawar '98, a Crimson editor, is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House...
...Leila Kawar's statement that "there is not a single democratic state in the Middle East" ("Choosing Sides, Making Friends," Feb. 11) and her characterization of Israel as a theocracy, not a democracy, is ill-informed and false. As proof of the undemocratic nature of Israel, Kawar offers the example of the Law of Return, Israel's policy of guaranteeing citizenship to any Jew wishing to immigrate. How this leads her to conclude that Israel is a theocracy, defined as a government by officials regarded as divinely inspired, is puzzling...
Still, the Law of Return reflects the problematic question of what it means to be a "Jewish State" to many Israelis, both Jews and non-Jews, and Kawar is correct in nothing that Israel has complications in defining its national identity. But to characterize Israel as a theocracy represents a simplification of the myriad elements of identity at play: Jewish religious identity, Jewish ethnic identity and Israeli Statist identity. The fact that academia, the press, the public and the parliament (where both Arab and Jew are represented) can debate issues like the Law of Return reveals that Israel...
...Leila C. Kawar, a junior living in Winthrop House, is a Crimson editor...