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...this the sort of people," asks Adam Levitin in The Crimson (opinion, March 8), "that any state...would want for a neighbour?" Anyone asking who would want to live next door to Blacks or Jews or Latinos would be denounced for their racism. But we can relax. Levitin was talking about Palestinians, and here normal rules of racism do not apply. Just ask Hollywood...
...Levitin's piece on "Har Homa" was a curious mixture of the ill-informed, the self-contradictory, the vindictive (indeed racist), and--on one issue--the correct...
...citing that 348 out of the 460 acres of land on Har Homa were owned by Jews prior to 1948, Levitin is playing a dangerous game. Does Levitin think that Israel should re-instate the pre-1948 land ownership contracts...
Considering that areas amounting to 80% of Israel proper are lands confiscated from the Palestinians under ad hoc absentia laws (including property owned by the Israeli Parliament in West Jerusalem, and parts of the Ben-Gurion International Airport); would Levitin be also willing to extend his argument to non-Jewish (i.e. Palestinian) lands? or have I missed something here...
...through the recognition that no one side has an exclusive right over the Holy City, that true peace could be achieved. Israel's actions, and Levitin's argument take one step away from any such peace. --Ramy M. Tadros '96, president emeritus, Harvard/Radcliffe Society of Arab Students