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...what way do these two individuals constitute a "monopoly"? If Mr. Lagon really has others in mind, surely any of them would have been a better example than Prof. Hoffmann. Any of the horde who force students to regurgitate knee-jerk radicalism" would do--unless Mr. Lagon is unable to find any. His accusations clearly make a mockery of themselves, or would, were it not for their overcomes. Faced with Mr. Lagon's tactics, how can one not call to mind Sen. Joe McCarthy's "discovery" of massive. Communist infiltration of the Departments of State and the Army...
...only conclude that his real interest is in censorship for its own sake--or, rather, in the expectation that he will be one of the censors. Nor does he hesitate to exercise the office of censor before he has ever been nominated, castigating Prof. Womack for "speaking less than objectively." Is such a remark consistent with a call for the free "interplay of ideas"? It seems not, for in order to pronounce this condemnation Mr. Lagon must believe that his own political views are in some sense "objective." But if he thinks he already knows the objective truth, what interest...
Very gently, Prof. Khalidi rejected Saunders' suggestion for U.S. mediation between the Israelis and the Palestinians. "We and the Israelis are the historical protagonists of the conflict We are the direct bearer of the Palestinian problem Reconciliation between us should be our business only, and not the business of a third party, be his intentions as good as could be. No third parts could bring about the beginning of a reconciliation process...
...Prof. Khalidi declared--to the astonishment and relief of several Israelis in the Forum Room that he had no problem in accepting the formula that was presented by Yossi Sarid, in its precise language...
...this symposium was also very interesting and encouraging, and above all a reminder that there are still in Israel people who hold the right direction and would exercise it when the time comes. The meeting with some of them here at Harvard was for me, to put it in Prof. Khalidi's words, "a breath of fresh air" and a good hope for a better future...