Word: shipler
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...must take issue with Steven Lichtman's article of November 4, entitled "Middle-Eastern Establishments." Lichtman had the obvious intent of churning out Zionist propaganda, which was rather poorly disguised as a "book review" of David K. Shipler's Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in the Promised Land. His commentary not only falsifies many facts in regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but also demonstrates blatant anti-Semitism, in the form of reprehensible prejudice against the Arab people...
Somewhere in the ashes of destruction lies the hope of mutual recognition, Shipler's "looking into each other's eyes." The PLO has offered one such proposal. If the Israelis disapprove, they should present their own ideas. Without someone to negotiate with, the moderates in the Palestinian community will eventually be displaced. Articles such as Mr. Lichtman's which promotes only bigotry and violence, are no help to those interested in real peace. Adam Abdelhamid Sabra...
This letter is in reponse to Steve Lichtman's editorial evaluation of David Shipler's book, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirit in a Promised Land. His analysis of the book is probably fair, but in the process he makes various political assertions of his own which are unqualified, vague and even factually untrue...
...SHIPLER holds the Jews to a much higher standard than the Arabs, and rightly so. Still, if his admittedly vague "solution" to the Arab-Jewish problem appears especially pat and simplistic--they will only find peace, he writes, "by looking into each other's eyes"--it is because over the past 40 years, the Israelis have stood much taller than their Arab foes...
...because Shipler only looked at the Arab-Jewish confrontation in the small area in which Israel is hegemonous and the Arabs are the underdogs, it was perhaps inevitable that he would be so angered with the Israelis and sympathize with the Arabs. His outrage over domestic tensions in Israel, however, would be more justified if it were joined by even greater outrage aimed at the leaders and powerbrokers in the Arab world outside Israel's tiny borders...