Dear Editor
Dear Editor Monty Python I was extremely pleased, and read with delight, Marvin Kitman's entertaining piece on Monty Python's Flying Circus ("Flying with Monty Python," NL, June 9). Not only do i...
...This basic intolerance is epitomized in the tradition ascribed to Mohammed himself-al-kufru millatun wahida ("unbelief is one nation...
...NL, May 26...
...Moreover, Coptic churches in Egypt have been attacked and burned regularly, and Copts murdered in the streets...
...And like Pharaoh, Hudson is also probably impervious to rational persuasion...
...The Lebanese Christians seem to be unaware of this...
...To underscore that point, Damascus sent Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam to Beirut to 'mediate' the conflict-and to express his concern that Moslem and Palestinian 'rights' were being violated...
...Houston Emile Ordinsky Israel Lately the reporting on the Middle East situation in this country has been displaying so little thought or perspective that it seems to be coming from Cloudcuckooland...
...Kitman reports that when public television officials initially debated whether to air the program, opposition came from an uptight faction led by Robert Kotlowitz...
...Baltimore Sandy Corman Lebanon Like Biblical Pharaoh before him, Professor Michael C. Hudson's heart has been hardened against Israel ("Dear Editor," NL, June 9...
...For this reason, Eliahu Salpeter's "Israel on the Road to Geneva" (NL, June 23), though it made depressing reading for anyone who worries about the future of Israel, came as a breath of journalistic fresh air...
...Along with other execrable fakes, the feckless Allen deserves to be Simonized or Menckenized, not treated with seriousness in your pages...
...Which simply goes to show that you don't have to be Protestant to be a missionary...
...In fact, one can reasonably predict the eventual exclusion of all Arab Christians from the Arab-Islamic bloc...
...The distinguished Arabist, Professor Bernard Lewis, points out in The Middle East and the West that during moments of passion Moslem mobs feel Arabic-speaking but Christian compatriots are on the other side-and they act accordingly...
...On the subject of Lebanon itself, Hudson writes: "Lebanese of all religious persuasions are coming to realize that it is in this dramatically developing [Arab] bloc that their country's values, interests and security lie...
...I shall address myself to the two main points he raises (leaving aside his anti-Israel tirades), namely, the position of Christians in the emerging Arab world, and the situation in Lebanon...
...Kingman, Ariz...
...Large sections of Beirut have become free-fire zones, and the fighting has escalated into open religious warfare...
...G. Stuart Pierce...
...Surely the opposite is true," he assures us confidently...
...Khaddam had no need to mention that Syrian troops stand a single day's march away from the Lebanese capital...
...Hudson is pained at the notion that many qualified observers believe "that Arabism is giving way to a primarily Islamic identity, thereby freezing out Lebanese Christians...
...I can see little reason for her review of the trash that comes from the marginal talent and flawed intelligence of Woody Allen ("A Cowering Man of Sensibility...
...Well, the opposite is decidedly not true...
...Really...
...Alas, the jejune Mr...
...New York City Albert Ehrman Woody Allen Although I have greatly appreciated Isa Kapp's work in The New Leader over the past years...
...Lewis observes: "Just as Moslems are, in theory, one nation, so too are the unbelievers, and the basic division of the world is into these two groups, the Moslems and the rest...
...South of the capital, Christian and Moslem villages have been rocketing and mortaring each other...
...It is in the same spirit that the Algerians found their response to the French slogan of Algerie francaise-not Algerie arabe, nor Algerie algerienne, but Algerie musulmane, Moslem Algeria...
...But the Lebanese must also contend with the Palestinians' big brother, Syria...
...In another country," the Newsweek correspondent writes, "this display of anarchic violence would long ago have brought a declaration of martial law and a crackdown...
...In the course of the demonstrations Armenian...
...The professor needs to do his homework...
...However, since his letter responding to Stephen Oren's "The Struggle for Lebanon" (NL, May 12) is studded with egregious errors, I feel it would be a sin to allow readers unfamiliar with the issues to be deceived by his nonsense...
...As recently as June 20, 1974, Colonel Qaddafi of Libya called upon his coreligionists to join in a "holy war" to extirpate Christianity from Africa...
...According to the Newsweek of June 9, 1975, the nation is beginning to crack under the rising crescendo of Christian-Moslem sectarian violence...
...How does one explain these phenomena...
...Especially distressing are the comparisons she makes between his asserted capacities and the abilities of Twain, Benchley and Sahl...
...Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches were vandalized...
...As far back as November 2. 1945, Egypt's leaders called for demonstrations on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration...
...Let me offer some evidence...
...Davis, not the blithe Britishers, more accurately reflects the spirit of educational TV in America-one of stolid good works occasionally straining to relax and have fun...
...Not only do i second his judgment that "it is the funniest series on television today," but I also agree completely with his caustic remarks on Crane Davis: Never has any TV "personality" struggled so hard to achieve a level of banality...
Vol. 58 • July 1975 • No. 14
