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...Rustin Silverstein's "Scandalous Wishes" (Opinion, Feb. 13) is both extremely biased and grossly overstated. Silverstein justifies President Clinton's alleged affair by nothing that the "Comeback Kid" has public opinion behind him. To justify an affair by turning to public opinion polls is inexcusable. How would you feel if your wife had an affair? I guess it would be OK if she had good poll scores. JEFFERY B. GOLDBERG Tucson, Ariz...
Rustin C. Silverstein '99 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. His column will appear on alternate Fridays...
Rustin C. Silverstein '99 is The Crimson's political columnist...
...Sept. 22 letter, Rustin Silverstein '99 and David Honig '99 criticize the printing of a Reuters photograph of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy being beaten by an Israeli soldier, saying that this coverage was "surprising and sad." Surprising, perhaps, since the U.S. media is generally so skewed towards the Zionist perspective, but not sad, for by no means is every critical exposure of Israeli biased or wrong. This photograph represented a move towards more balanced coverage, while their letter was simply a return to the revisionist writing about Israel and Palestinians that is normalized in mainstream U.S. discourse...
...Silverstein and Honig argue that using the name "Arab East Jersualem" inaccurately describes the eastern part of Jerusalem because there is currently a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. However, they neglect to mention that this majority was only achieved through a systematic pumping in of Jewish settlers and concurrent expulsion of native Palestinians by means of physical and legal violence. To uphold the policy of keeping Palestinians off of their land, denoted by such incidents as the notorious 1947 Deir Yassin massacre in a village in the Jerusalem district, Israeli law refuses building permits to native Palestinians in Jerusalem, legally...