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News Editor for This Issue: Ross G. Forman '90 Night Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Tara A. Nayak '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Features Editor: Susan B. Glasser '90 Sports Editor: Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: Krissy Guleserian '90 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos '92 Copy Editors: Kolette L. Brown '92 Bridget K. McCabe...
...John L. Larew '91 is a former intern at The Washington Monthly. Any similarities between the author's agenda and the political philosophy espoused by that magazine are purely coincidental...
When John Larew characterizes Americans who support Israel "because it is a Jewish state" as "Zealots," I am reminded of Golda Meir's sharp reply to a critic who asked her if Israel suffered from a "Masada complex" of last-stand heroism. (Masada was the last stand of Palestinian Jews against the Romans in A.D. 73.) "Yes, we do have a Masada complex," she replied. "We have a Masada complex, we have a Chmielnicki [where 100,000 Jews were murdered by Cossacks] complex, we have a Dachau complex...
...point in mentioning these things is not to claim that supporters of Palestinian nationalism are anti-Semitic, nor is it, as Larew suggests, to show how much "more morally palatable Israel is than the neighboring Arab states." I agree with him that this fact is irrelevant...
Criticism is necessary to a healthy democracy, but many of us who also defend Israel have agonized over and considered the issues at stake at least as deeply as Larew. His psycholanalysis of our opinions is false and offensive...