Correspondence

...He shows us the connections with our own tradition that were easy to lose sight of during those times, and enlightens us as even the most eloquent gurus were unable to do...

...The Palestinian leadership has declined to renounce officially the "strategy of (liberating Palestine in) stages," wherein a West Bank/Gaza state would serve as a launching pad for attacks on the rest of Israel...

...Finally, it was nostalgic to read John Garvey's account ["Those Weren't the Days"] of his draft-counseling years, so similar to my own...

...To the Editors: The article "Rocking the Roe Boat" [June 2] cited what must be the silliest statistic ever given as to the number of illegal abortion deaths in the United States prior to legalization...

...He had this beautiful capacity for moving young people beyond the pious abstractions they had been raised with and into a world of meaningful life and action...

...I remember him from a summer I spent at Friendship House in 1946 and he made an indelible impression...

...Right-wing Israelis repudiate the possibility of territorial compromise, insisting either that all of the land of Israel (including the West Bank) belongs to the Jews by God-given right or that Arab intentions are such that Israel could never relinquish the security of its present borders...

...When asked about their goals in the intifada, Palestinian youth are apt to spout slogans about the liberation of all of Palestine (i.e., the destruction of Israel...

...In many ways it provides precisely what many of us have been missing and searching for...

...In order for the piecemeal approach to peacemaking to be constructive, these are some of the "land mines" which will have to be addressed...

...Despite some promising rhetoric from PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, the PLO has proven that it is factionalized and as yet unable to take the necessary steps to address Israel's security concerns...

...To the Editors: It was a delight to read in the June 16 issue Tim Unsworth's article on Daniel Cantwell ["Fifty Years of Changing Minds & Structures"] and to know that Cantwell is still alive and effective in Chicago...

...CORRESPONDENCE A minority forgotten Phoenix, Ariz...

...barry gill Piecemeal peacemaking New York, N.Y To the Editors: Mitchell Cohen's analysis of the political situation in Israel anc within the Palestinian camp ("A Profusion of Land Mines," May 5) is concise and highly accurate...

...IRA SILVERMAN The American Jewish CommitteeAmerican Jewish Committee...

...JAMES A. MILLER Applauding an issue Napa, Calif...

...According to writer Maurice de G. Ford, a handbill distributed by pro-abortion (not "pro-choice," please) advocates at the Supreme Court claimed that "Before 1973 Back Alley Abortions Claimed as many as 100,000 Women's Lives Each Year...

...While many of us endorse his policy guidelines-the route of cautious diplomacy, encouraging mutual moderation and conciliation-there is more opposition to the basic premise of territory for peace than is clear from the article...

...I don't know if I would want to relive those times either, but they provided a fresh wind I would never wanl to have missed...

...It is a book that deserves a wide readership...

...The recent election proposal initiated by Prime Minister Shamir, however, demonstrates concrete movement toward conciliation...

...The so-called "potential life," which even in the first trimester sucks her thumb, is in reality the oft-forgotten party in the abortion debate...

...Since the number of women of reproductive age (15-44) who died yearly from all causes was some 50,000 prior to 1973- (see the mortality tables of the yearly official Vital Statistics of the United States compiled by the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)-100,000 abortion deaths per year is just a very thick slice of pro-abortion baloney...

...As a teacher in the creation spirituality program at Holy Names College in Oakland, I have been impressed over and over with the transforming power of this embodied spirituality...

...Silly statistic cited Gaithersburg, Md...

...The Palestinians, for their part, are none too convincing about their desire to live in peace with Israel...

...To the Editors: The comparison made in Maurice de G. Ford's "Rocking the Roe Boat" [June 2], of the Supreme Court's abortion case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, with its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision is indeed unfortunate, if the author intended to convey the notion that with time people will come to accept abortion as a fundamental right...

...It was also pleasing in the same issue to read William Thompson's even-handed review of Matthew Fox's The Coming of the Cosmic Christ...

...They have also scorned the idea of amending the PLO Charter to remove calls for Israel's destruction...

...WILLIAM V. DOLAN, M.D...

...Reading of David Toolan's departure recalls his remarkable book, Facing West from California's Shores, the most penetrating study I have ever read of the journey many of us took during the fifties and sixties into and sometimes out of Eastern thought and new age modes of being, but with very little understanding of the larger context we were moving in...

...This unborn minority desperately needs her day in court...