Correspondence
QUINN, BILL & ZIV-EL, SIMMY & POLICANO, JOSEPH D. & GRAHAM, SISTER ELIZABETH & Byrne, Katharine
CORRESPONDENCE Abetting Israel Miami, Fla. To the Editors: The article ["Occupying Each Other," April 22] is an excellent portrayal of the Israel/Palestinian conflict, but author Mitchell Cohen...
...We punish Haitians for their elections by cutting aid, we punish the Nicaraguans for their government, and we punish the Panamanians for theirs...
...Opposing the first question is the second: how can we supply Israel in her aggression on other peoples...
...Since 1967 and through the present uprising, Labor has continuously expressed its commitment to the notion of "land for peace...
...Most of them,' the officer said, 'don't regard the Arabs as humans.'" Is Israel really threatened by the Arabs...
...Everything Cohen says is true: Arabs are shrill and inflammatory in their rhetoric...
...To the Editors: In the concluding paragraph of "Occupying Each Other" [April 22], Mitchell Cohen writes: "A sober analysis of the present situation...
...The Israel Labor Party, led by Shimon Peres, has both a commitment and a political program which together open the door to a peace process...
...But only they...
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...In recent interviews and speeches in New York, Abba Eban, hardly an Arab apologist, scoffed at the notions that it is or that Israel's circle-the-wagons posture is justified...
...Nevertheless, the U.S...
...Moreover, some clearly articulated support for the "land for peace" formula by Palestinian leaders would surely help the Israeli electorate believe that it is worth supporting leaders, in the upcoming Israeli elections, who are open to the kind of compromises necessary to bring peace to the Middle East...
...Serials Data program No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...p. 365, Jean Chariot...
...With our continuing aid Israel is able to continue indefinitely her deliberate killing of the Palestinians...
...They do...
...I daresay most of our citizens agonize over the fate of Israel...
...356 & 358, Emil Antonucci...
...When our money is being used to destroy human life, we have no recourse but to notify the offending governments that our aid will expire within a specified time frame...
...is a sign for cautious optimism...
...Is its very existence at stake...
...SIMMY ZIV-EL Executive Director Friends of Labor Israel Bogeymen of the past Laurelton, N.Y...
...The fact that Shimon Peres continues to lead Yitzak Shamir in Israeli opinion polls-when people are asked "who is best suited to be Prime Minister of Israel...
...Illustrations: Cover and pp...
...Iraq and Iran are otherwise engaged and Syria is tied down in Lebanon...
...Our government does not hesitate to use aid as a weapon with other countries...
...reveals little place for optimism...
...I concur with him when one views the situation as a snapshot frozen in time...
...I nevertheless choose to differ with his pessimistic conclusion as regards the potential path which could be chosen as a way out of the present quagmire...
...They are no more important than the Haitians, the Salvadorans, or any other people who are in torment...
...So they do "occupy each other," as Cohen says...
...Israel is known to have nuclear capability...
...Even Cohen has to go back twenty or forty years to justify Israel's self-defense claim...
...BILL QUINN Land-for-peace policy New York, N.Y...
...p. 373, Bas - Tachydromos...
...362 & 368, Paul Valerry...
...It has the unswerving support of the U.S...
...To the Editors: Mitchell Cohen's cool analysis ["Occupying Each Other," April 22] is an exquisite example of the selective reasoning process that is taking place in American media, leaving unengaged readers with a "pox on both your houses" attitude...
...To the Editors: The article ["Occupying Each Other," April 22] is an excellent portrayal of the Israel/Palestinian conflict, but author Mitchell Cohen does not mention the third party, the citizens of the United States...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...media and government, whose own client states include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait...
...Do public opinion polls find Arabs militantly opposed to Israel...
...Is Israel of such special interest to us...
...taxpayer sees Prime Minister Shamir snarl at our peace plans but leave the country with his yearly $3 billion...
...Just as polls show that Israelis support the beatings and killings used by the Israeli army...
...Israel is a superpower in the Middle East...
...But there is another explanation to the current conflict and that can be found buried in the twenty-sixth paragraph of a New York Times story on March 13, 1988...
...Sharon and Kahane (both Israeli government officials) match anything the PLO officials say...
...p. 360, Punch...
...To us the Israelites are another of the many races of people in the world...
...Bogeymen of (Continued on page 379) Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...Perhaps they are of less importance since they do possess the basic necessities of life...
...John Kifner wrote: "There is little conflict among the rank and file (of the Israeli army) over the beatings of Palestinians,' said one Western military officer whose frequent contact with the Israeli army has left him with a critical but not unsympathetic attitude...
...Our dilemma is: how can we lobby for reduction of aid to Israel when Israel must receive the aid to exist...
...In the meantime, Palestinians continue to suffer under Israel's "kick and kill" policy and the status quo continues in Gaza and the West Bank...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...How is Israel endangered...
Vol. 115 • June 1988 • No. 12
