LETTERS
Editor: As a new reader of DISSENT I am interested in the inclusion of Walter Laqueur's article (December 1971), "Zionism, the Marxist Critique, and the Left" in a journal "devoted to...
...Since the only salt water in Czechoslovakia comes in bottles from Slovak mineral springs, I use dreadnought as a synonym for the modem battleship rather than in the correct sense of a class of heavily gunned, lightly armored, fast vessels like HMS Dreadnought...
...What of those of us who would want more for Israel...
...Laqueur hope that Zionism would allow Israel to be more than simply another small nation playing the usual political games...
...want Israel to explore new models of socialism, be a leader in democratic techniques and a true leader in setting up new forms of political behavior...
...q PAULA RAYMAN Dreadnought: Post-Engels...
...what is decisive in democratic politics (because in conformity with the equalitarian principle) is its quantity...
...Mudd is as right as I am wrong: I shall place one wilted dandelion on Adm...
...Laqueur repeatedly supports the Zionists' position toward maintaining the status quo, especially nonradical on the subject of nationalism...
...If I read Mr...
...Engels knew better: he spoke of modem naval technology which makes the engineer who controls the machine more important than the captain...
...Since, in fact, the eponym—HMS Dreadnought —was launched in 1906, 11 years after the death of Engels, one wonders if Mr...
...Editor: As a new reader of DISSENT I am interested in the inclusion of Walter Laqueur's article (December 1971), "Zionism, the Marxist Critique, and the Left" in a journal "devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy...
...that this declaration was made in the 1870s...
...DONALD E. MUDD ERAziM KoHAK replies: Mr...
...Laqueur correctly I must accept the fact that Israel is a delayed Jewish reaction to history, to old concepts of nationalism...
...I am a young Jewish woman who knows the difficulty of being an optimist in a world where many liberal intellectuals such as Mr...
...Didn't he feel, as I do, that Israel had the potential not to be "Like All the Nations" (a book title by Magnes...
...Those nonJews outside the quota are denied citizenship which the United Nations has called the right of all human beings...
...Kohak's attribution might be supported by a particular citation...
...Jackie Fischer's grave as apology...
...This policy places a synagogue-state union above a democratic priority...
...I thus am free from the generalizations against these groups pervading Mr...
...Before he became worn with compromises did Mr...
...Kohak stated [in "Russia: The Fire Next Time...
...He rejects any radical demand: "as unreasonable [the demand] that the Jews should subordinate their national aspirations to the higher interest of the future ideal world state...
...The passage I had in mind is in Anti-Duhring, p. 230 if in the Moscow Foreign Languages Publishing House edition of 1954...
...Mr...
...Israel is a democracy for only part of its inhabitants: its Jews and an established minority quota of non-Jews...
...Today Zionism is clearly not a radical, socialistic, or democratic force...
...Editor: In your October 1971 issue Erazin Kohak attributed to Engels a declaration on military technology in which the development of the dreadnought was mentioned...
...To insure a socialist, democratic Israeli experience concerned people must help Israel free itself from Zionist rhetoric which has so far permitted a program of non-justice for many Israeli residents, non-peace for all its people...
...Laqueur embrace the comfort of "reasonableness" because alternatives to established ways are not "very promising...
...Israel is chiefly financed by the money and influence of American and other Diaspora Jewish capitalists, and according to recent studies (i.e., Erik Cohen's, "A Comparative Study of the Political Institutions of the Collective Settlements," Dan Katz's, "The Kibbutz— An Open System") even its most purely socialistic sector, the kibbutz, is moving toward increased materialism...
...Zionist Israel has been implicitly or explicitly legally denying the majority of its non-Jewish residents political power, particularly those people within its "occupied territories...
...David Spitz, in the same issue states...
...I make these remarks as one not associated with either a Marxist or New Left camp...
...When realizing the strength of the people of Israel, who have overcome memories of concentration camps, language barriers, malariamarshes to build a home, one within reason could hope that this unique energy could produce a unique nation...
Vol. 19 • April 1972 • No. 2
