Dear Editor
Dear Editor The Birth of Nations With regard to Mike Bernick's article on "The Bhutto Affair" (NL, April 14), should it not be remembered that on July 4, 1776, Oxford University awarded a Doctor...
...Secretary of State, whose ambiguity led them to expect totally unrealistic results in their drive against Israel...
...We will establish our national entity on all this land after it has been liberated completely from the Zionist presence and agent reactionary King Hussein...
...The fact is, Mihajlovich and his formations never repudiated the concept of free-enterprise government for Yugoslavia...
...instead, Egypt and Syria will each be getting 100,000 tons of wheat on a 20-year loan at 3 per cent...
...Giving in to the Arabs on this would have the same disastrous consequences the Munich Pact had in 1938...
...And this country, given the present choice of political systems in the world, still represents, under the proper leadership, mankind's best hope...
...Christopher Niebuhr Mihajlovich I find it highly regrettable that Hrvaje Lun's derogatory remarks about the late hero General Drazha Mihajlovich were put into print (Dear Editor, NL, March 17...
...He looks good so long as you don't examine his positions too closely...
...Over the coming months Carter is certain to receive a great deal of favorable attention and free publicity from the national press...
...This Country would also have done well to heed the advice of Senator Walter F. Mondale (D.-Minn...
...The oil-consuming nations are not without weapons of their own...
...Apparently, one might say of them, as was said of the Bourbons in the 19th century that they remember everything and learn nothing...
...Actually, although the Arabs created the PLO in 1964 and have continually financed it, their support for its extreme program is due to the false confidence acquired after the Yom Kippur War...
...If a more conciliatory Arab attitude is ever to emerge, American steadfastness, not American supplication will be necessary...
...A policy of appeasement toward the Arab oil moguls and war lords is doomed to failure for the same reason that it failed in the '30s...
...In fact, the U.S...
...Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz opposed this...
...Mary Collins Porter The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Sincere Runs for President," NL, March 17) had an appropriately biting undertone to it...
...Anyone who believes their aim is to establish yet another Arab state (this one for "Palestinians") on parts of the West Bank engages in either wishful thinking or deadly chicanery...
...But to my eye the handsome, Kennedyesque ex-governor of Georgia comes across as a media candidate pure and simple...
...Every spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has reiterated that the establishment of a "Palestinian entity" on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is only an interim objective...
...Their attempt to misguide U.S...
...New York City Ante R. K. Jeric Israel and I.F.Stone The argument that any display of excessive zeal in behalf of Israel-or for that matter Soviet Jewry-might unleash an anti-Semitic backlash, challenged by Walter Goodman ("Jews, Israel and I. F. Stone," NL, March 17), is both cowardly and dangerous...
...It is not an unwarranted assumption that this Arab confidence is derived from commitments made by the U.S...
...The rulers it is being applied to are unappeasable...
...Mihajlo Mihajloy's opinion under duress seems to me to have much more credibility than that of an emigrant imbued with chauvinism...
...Not for nothing did Engels write to Marx on February 12, 1851: "It becomes more and more evident that the emigration is an institution that inevitably makes a fool, an ass and a scoundrel of anyone who does not withdraw entirely from it...
...But the Arabs will yet regret the monstrosity they created in the guise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Henry Kissinger will find that he advanced neither detente nor American interests...
...It is indeed a school for scandal and meanness...
...and the Western world would have been much better off today had the advice given in November 1973 by seven leading American economists (including four Nobel Prize Winners) been accepted: "If united, the [consuming nations] can refuse to supply food and manufactured goods to the nations committing the hostile acts...
...Just as Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland proved not to be Hitler's last territorial demand, so the areas gained by Israel in 1967 are not the Arabs' last demand...
...There is an inexcusable dumbness in recent Western diplomacy...
...Arafat represents, at most, 290,000 people residing in Syria and Lebanon...
...The Kingdom of Jordan occupies 75 per cent of historic Palestine...
...Over 100 Palestinians have served as Cabinet ministers to King Hussein...
...Now, as then, men with fundamentally no policy carry on a patchwork statesmanship and pass for statesmen...
...Farouk Kaddoumi, the chief of the PLO's political arm, attacked Hussein for trying to distinguish between West Bank and East Bank Palestinians: "All these measures, constitutional changes, elections, and other names given the aim of separating the people on the two banks are phony...
...Now, as in the earlier era of shame, aggressive regimes bent on destroying freedom and subverting our way of life are being coddled instead of stopped...
...We warn that letting our policies be determined or even influenced by the threat of injury is as futile as it is ignoble...
...If a viable Palestinian state of reasonable dimensions were really the goal, instead of the destruction of Israel, there would be no problem...
...The Palestinians are today's Sudeten Germans, and the "occupied territories" are Israel's Sudetenland...
...who called for at least the threat of a wheat embargo to teach the oil producers that extortion can be a double-edged sword...
...Even the PLO sees Jordan as Palestinian...
...If widely accepted, it could produce a change in American policy that would not merely be to the immediate detriment of Israel but to the long-range detriment of the United States...
...Unfortunately for the citizens of Yugoslavia, the Teheran Conference of December 1, 1943, gave full Allied support to Tito, who in turn made Yugoslavia his own "business," in fact a One-Man-Ownership-of-Life-Property-and-Mind, a kind of modern slavery...
...But, in truth, bold action is required in the Middle East...
...public opinion must be countered, so that the fundamental convergence of- American and Israeli interests is not obscured...
...Those of us who have been comparing the current posture of the Western world to the abysmal performance of democratic states when confronted by the dictators of the 1930s are offered fresh analogies with ever greater frequency...
...journalist C. Kenneth Gracz was publicly told by the General: "The most I wish is that my country adopts the American Constitution and American democracy...
...For six years, the Arab states insisted on the return of the "occupied territories" (i.e., those gained by Israel in a defensive war...
...Thus the Bhutto affair might have more consequences in the birth of Bangladesh...
...Half of the recently retired Jordanian Parliament is Palestinian, along with 60 per cent of its civil service bureaucracy...
...If to maintain this [oil] flow we accede to a course of action we do not otherwise desire, then it will follow as the night the day that we will be blackmailed again and again...
...The U.S...
...It would be more productive to confer on such countermeasures than to outdo each other in subservience...
...Yasir Arafat, the so-called moderate among the terrorist leaders, himself stated from his UN podium that unless he gets all of Palestine as a "secular state" (with Jews as a tolerated element in the population), he will drop his olive branch and resort to his gun...
...As late as June 1974 three-fifths of Jordan's government ministers were Palestinians...
...Failing to halt moves which can only result in Israel's destruction assumes, in effect, that all will be well once the Jewish State is gone...
...For we are smack in the middle of a new era of appeasement...
...Whatever the reason for their lack of perception, their credentials as commentators on any issue ought now to be questioned...
...During the ceremonial phase of the Geneva Conference, seven of the 11-man Jordanian delegation were Palestinians...
...Such fantasies cannot be laid to rest unless a solution to the Palestinian problem is found consistent with the de facto population exchange that occurred when Israel absorbed over one million Jews who left Arab countries and had to abandon their property...
...Hutchinson had been dismissed after some incriminating letters he wrote were released by Deputy Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin...
...Schenectady, N.Y...
...Albany, N.Y...
...Now, taking this for as good as granted, they have initiated the next stage in their timetable for Israel's destruction by demanding the restoration of "the national rights of the Palestinians...
...The PLO is being turned into a tool of the Soviet Union, which is preparing for one of two contingencies: to become the chief source of support for a "revolutionary" Palestinian state, should that come about, or to give unlimited backing to the PLO as a "national liberation movement...
...Lun appears to be propounding the kind of misinformation brought to America by many immigrants from Yugoslavia, especially from the Croatian parts...
...As a result of Hutchinson's having to leave Boston for exile, Franklin, then in England, returned to America, where he became a hero of a nation in the process of being born...
...Hoping against hope, they come to trust their own blurred vision...
...Most Jordanians are Palestinians...
...People of liberal principles should know their history better than they seem to...
...What is more, they trust words of cynical dictators who are their adversaries...
...New York City Elias Cooper Editor, "The American Zionist' Carter Kathy Starbuck's piece on Jimmy Carter's bid for the White House ("Mr...
...Now, as then, the aggressors are being strengthened by governments and corporations anxious to do business with them...
...Unfortunately, the United States is currently being poorly served by some benighted columnists who have made the easy assumption that Israeli "intransigence" is causing all of America's trouble in the Middle East...
...In either case the area will be subject to increased pressure and Moscow will have gained...
...The growing speculation on the use of force against Arab oil blackmail may in itself already have had a salutary effect...
...Dear Editor The Birth of Nations With regard to Mike Bernick's article on "The Bhutto Affair" (NL, April 14), should it not be remembered that on July 4, 1776, Oxford University awarded a Doctor of Civil Law degree to Thomas Hutchinson, an American-born ex-governor of Massachusetts...
...Now, as then, power ploys are being excused as a just redress of grievances...
Vol. 58 • April 1975 • No. 9
