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...former Congressional candidate James Roosevelt '68 said yesterday, "Question Five is a one-sided, purely anti-Israel, pro-PLO piece of propaganda that tries to cut off our only ally in the Middle East." Roosevelt, now a Boston lawyer, also wrote an article criticizing the referendum in last week's edition of the Cambridge Chronicle...
...billion in annual aid and therefore cannot cut it back. The Palestinians are not occupying another people's territory, and therefore cannot be encouraged to withdraw. Unfortunately, America has so firmly entrenched itself in the Israeli camp, that it has forfeited any political leverage with the Palestinians. The PLO is willing to negotiate with U.S. and Israeli representatives...
...Israel who refuse to negotiate with the PLO. Question 5 urges a more balanced approach to the entire conflict, an approach which stresses that both Palestinians and Israelis have equal rights to statehood and there must come a day when our government treats both peoples equally. Until that day, however, any claim that Question 5 is "one-sided" or "biased" against Israel, ignores the fact that America's Mideast policy is itself "one-sided" and "biased" in favor of Israel. Question 5 seeks to balance the scales...
...degree to which some have gone in attacking Question 5 is fascinating. There are those who object because there is no explicit security guarantee for Israel. There is none for Palestine either. There are those who object because the referendum does not condemn PLO atrocities. But the U.S. already condemns various actions of Palestinians; the referendum does not challenge this policy. It only seeks to hold Israel to the same human rights standards applied to South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Central America. The most frustrating excuse that opposition to Question 5 has invented is that the situation...
...fact, they would appear to impede the process. They call for unilateral concessions by Israel, when we should be calling for negotiations by both sides. In addition to criticizing Israeli violations of Palestinian rights, we should denounce the use of violence by the Palestinians and terrorism by the PLO, including the renunciation of the section of the PLO charter that calls for the destruction of Israel. A cessation of aid to Israel, without any comparable censure of the Palestinians, forces Israel to the bargaining table in an untenably weak position. Instead of blindly legislating the creation of a Palestinian state...