Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to Professor Martin Kilson's letter (March 8, 1975) which pleads for "serious public discussion in The Crimson," I would like to offer the following comments...
Professor Kilson decries the "ethnocentric and chauvinistic exclusionism which informs the Israeli state today." He expresses confidence that Arabs really want to turn Israel into an egalitarian binational state, regardless of what they have said or done. In light of this claim it is only fair to bring to view some of the statements and acts of the Arab leadership...
...that in time and with the right kind of U.S. military and economic presence in the Middle East (a presence quite different from the tendentious design Prof. Walzer has in mind) the Palestinian leadership will more readily recognize the equity of a binationalist solution than the Israeli leadership. Martin Kilson...
...Professor Kilson is certainly right to say that my argument, as reported in The Crimson, "leaves too many crucial questions unanswered." But he might have assumed that in the talk itself I tried to deal with those questions, that I made arguments, offered reasons--went on at some length, indeed, like any other professor. I should think he would want to know my arguments and reasons before rushing into print...
...surprised to find Professor Kilson now formally enlisted among the supporters of bionationalism. He should know that that is a solution acceptable to none of the Palestinian organizations and to no significant group in Israel. It would have to be imposed by force on both sides, and probably maintained by force also: what sort of military presence would that require? Michael Walzer Professor of Government