CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Israel Riverdale, N.Y. To the Editors: In your Washington Report on the Middle East [Nov. 10] you strongly emphasize and implicitly criticize commitments and pledges to Israel. You...
...I most appreciate your perceptive equation of true Zionism with the "identification of Jews the world over with Israel as the Land sacred to Jewish history and vital to Jewish safety and survival as a people...
...phillip bloom Word Limit* New York, N.Y...
...This last point was also prom-ised in the 1973 Cease-Fire Agreement but was never adhered to...
...However, I cannot help but wonder if the creation and continued existence of Israel is a protection or • any security for world Jewry-or if it doesn't in fact harm their cause...
...The political' threat against this object of Jewish identification has only been heightened by its semantic expansion into the anti-"Zionist" threat against all Jews as Jews...
...ARNOLD FORSTER Seattle, Wash...
...As far as I can tell, "parameter" has only one meaning, a rather technical one: "A variable or an arbitrary constant appearing in a mathematical expression, each value of which restricts or determines the specific form of the expression...
...Does Zionism's "roots in the Bible" justify the creation of the modern Israeli state- in which mainly white-skinned Europeans moved mainly dark-skinned Palestinians off their land...
...You then speak about "doubts and fears of members of Congress...
...We often hear this equation callously denied by those who have axes to grind or who just don't know...
...Jews are indeed concerned, as you state, that the anti-Zionism ploy at the United Nations may indeed "become a cloak under which one hate will become a code word for the other"-the other being anti-Semitism, that primeval myth of awful consequences which it was hoped the rebirth of the State of Israel- (Continued on page 93)CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 67) and the United Nations-would banish from the world...
...edwin kennebeck...
...ARTHUR GINSBURG New York, N.Y...
...It has been long-standing Israeli policy never to request any armed forces from the U.S...
...I appreciate the integrity of Commonweal, but ask if there are not some gratuitous assumptions behind your position, (rev...
...Why then should Israel giye up strategic defense positions as well as valuable oil fields without getting anything in return...
...This from the American Heritage Dictionary...
...To the Editors: Your editorial [Dec...
...The same man incidentally, who was an open supporter of the Nazis and was jailed by the British because of it...
...Have we so quickly forgotten who started the war in 1973...
...How many other countries can make that statement...
...What I question is-Can Zionism be defended theologically...
...Now Sadat visits the White House and is treated with regal splendor...
...I know a few anti-Semites-and I am reluctant to express my views on Israel to them for fear of encouraging their hatred for Jews...
...5 editorial on "Anti-Zionism/ Anti-Semitism:" It is hard to state a contrary view without being accused of- or encouraging-covert anti-Semitism...
...In return, Egypt made a few vague general promises- such at agreeing to tone down its anti-Israel propaganda and to allow third party ships (but not Israeli ships) to cany goods to Israel via the Suez Canal...
...To the Editors: Concerning your Dec...
...In your October 10 issue, Herbert London writes, ". . . the legal parameters . . . do not exist" as if "parameters" meant boundaries or limits...
...It should be pointed out that in the recent Sinai agreement Israel returned a good portion of Sinai to Egypt including the oil fields that supplied 50 percent of Israel's oil needs...
...5], "Anti-Zionism/Anti-Semitism," was most welcome, especially being given the prominence this overwhelming issue requires...
...To the Editors: It's a pity to see a good word go down the drain...
...I do not want that, and I share many of the concerns you raise...
...This is exactly what one does when one attacks a people's historic hope...
Vol. 103 • January 1976 • No. 3
