Dear Editor
Dear Editor Mideast Realities I would like you to know how very much I enjoyed Hans J. Morgenthau's article ("Facing Mideast Realities," NL, April 24). Morgenthau is indeed a rare oasis of...
...Morgenthau is indeed a rare oasis of perception and sanity in our time...
...Atlanta IonGladman...
...position with regard to the territory of the state of Israel was spelled out by Secretary of State Rogers in the so-called Rogers Plan...
...The New York Times, explaining the U.S...
...New York City Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz Carter's Mideast policy is more consistent with that of the previous three decades than Hans J. Morgenthau allows...
...The peace process he started is almost irreversible...
...It may move too slowly for some people, but it is moving...
...New York City David R. Zukerman Hans J. Morgenthau has joined the chorus of those seeing a material change in American policy in the Middle East in general and vis-a-vis Israel in particular...
...What it says in essence is that there is no solution to the Mideast problem and that all we can do is push the United States in one direction while the Arabs push our country in another direction...
...Pleasantville, N. Y. Jesse Zel Lurte Dr...
...Nor is the oil issue a particularly new one...
...I only wish Brurnberg's sarcasm had rubbed off on Peter Grose, who in the same issue reviewed Anwar el-Sadat's "memoirs" ("Unfinished Story...
...It was a revolutionary act...
...Sadat's visit to Jerusalem did make a difference...
...The U.S...
...Morgenthau's article reeks with pessimism...
...In 1948, officials in the Truman Administration, who were encouraging the Arabs to refuse peace with Israel, helped get adopted UN Security Council Resolution 56, which treated the Arab aggressor and the Israeli victim even-handedly...
...New York City Ga Carl Alfoy Department of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY Professor Morgenthau is wrong...
...And why shouldn't they have, if western governments would reward their intansigence...
...At that time nobody had heard of opec, and the idea of the fantastic increase in oil prices and the oil embargo was furthest from our minds...
...The Arabs broke off peace talks with Israel following the passage of that resolution...
...New York City Waiter A. Sheldon Great Men My congratulations to Abraham Brumberg for his review of Leonid Brezhnev's autobiography ("For Brezhnev's a Jolly Good Fellow," NL, May 22...
...We may dislike and disagree with America's Mideast policy but it is wrong 10 see a change where none has occurred...
...Actually, the basic American policy dates back to the Eisenhower-Dulles period when Israel, after the Suez war, was forced to return to its borders...
...No book as self-serving as that of the Egyptian leader deserves to be discussed with a straight face...
...But I cannot discern any great difference since the creation of the State of Israel...
...abandon ment of support for the Palestine partition plan ii March 19, 1948, wrote: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington contended that United States parti cipation in an implementing of partition would alienate the Arab countries and jeopardize the supply of oil to Britain and the United States from Iraq and Saudi Arabia...
...What Morgenthau holds out for us is a future of increasing stresses and strains with no possibility for peace and with every possibility for renewed warfare...
Vol. 61 • June 1978 • No. 12
