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News Editor for This Issue: Jonathan M. Moses '88 Night editors: Matthew H. Joseph '88 Steven L. Lichtman '88 Susan B. Glasser '90 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Shari Rudavsky '88 Seth A. Gittell '91 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Benjamin R. Miller '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Michael D. Nolan '88...
Shari Rudavsky '88 Night Editors Andrew J. Bates '90 Noam S. Cohen '89 Melissa R. Hart '91 Jonathan M. Moses '88 City/State Editor Martha A. Bridegam '89 Sport Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Michael J. Lartigue '89 Photo Editor: D. Jean Guth '88 Business Editor: Willa Berghuis '88
Misguided, because Moses bases his argument upon a bizarre view of the origins and role of the State of Israel. Europeans with guilty consciences did not "colonize Jews on a strip of desert," nor were Jews colonized in any way, shape, or form. Zionist immigration was a protracted, eclectic, and...
Even more disturbing is Moses's intimation that Israel's sole importance is to give American Jews "a sense of identity and courage"--that it's nice to have around because it proves that Jews aren't wimps and it might come in handy in the event of another Holocaust...
This is not to say that American Jews should not criticize Israel. On the contrary, a proper perspective lends all the more urgency to the quandary which Moses correctly described. All lovers of the State of Israel must deplore the deaths and violence of the past few weeks, and the...