Dear Editor
Dear Editor Settlements In your "Between Issues" column of June 2, you argue that "central to the issue of the settlements" on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip "is the question of their legality."...
...Once it was Benjamin Disraeli, a dandy, Jew, darling of the Queen, and a Tory who saw the danger of Britain's becoming "two nations...
...Isn't it strange, then, that he should have, in the course of a long career, taken stands that have been increasingly progressive and politically risky-on matters ranging from housing and other civil rights-related legislation to Vietnam...
...Today it is this grocer's daughter, terror of her masculine Cabinet, who seeks to revive her nation's manliness...
...Rabbi Meir Kahane and Gush Emunim-the heart and soul of the West Bank settlements-Are spoiling for a fight over this matter...
...The debate is carried on, he says, "between those who believe Israel's policies should be determined by considerations of security and those who believe that its policy should be dictated by history...
...New Rochelle, N. Y. Jerry Rosenblum...
...True, there may be less cocktail-circuit banter about feminist issues, and the London Times-obviously sympathetic to Mrs...
...The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...I draw another lesson: Let us avoid all typecasting...
...It behooves the friends of Israel to frame the central issue correctly-in terms of the security of the Jewish State...
...It was there before and has a lot to do, I think, with the intrusive and centralizing effects of the Labor government, on the one hand, and an economy that barely functions, on the other...
...Perhaps when she's done Robert Lekachman will find his old affection for the place rekindled...
...Why does Lekachman take it as axiomatic that the kind of competitive society Mrs...
...Thatcher's happy phrase, "Man embraces woman"????did proscribe "Ms...
...But "legality" doesn't enter most Israeli discussions of the matter...
...The wonderful thing about Britain, it seems to me, is the way eccentric figures bridge the gap between ideologies and insure a relatively calm (when compared to the Continent) social evolution...
...Obviously the political implications of being born again are various...
...Ezer Weizman, for example, resigned from Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Cabinet not because he doubted that Hebron had been King David's first capital, but because from the viewpoint of Israel's security he believed that Begin had missed a "rare opportunity" in the negotiations with Egypt...
...from its columns...
...By the same token, isn't it strange that Carter, who emerged from a similar if belated rebirth thinking "that everyone was inherently good," should love to harp on the American malaise...
...Thatcher's team took over, I can reassure Lekachman that the "mean-spiritedness" he finds is not her creation...
...Take the issue of feminism, for example...
...Thatcher and her ministers envision will not be in the workers' interest...
...Newport, R. I. Roberta Thorp The Candidates Andrew Mollison, in his cleverly suggestive article, "Reading the Candidates" (NL, June 2), suggests the wrong thing about John Anderson...
...And if you can't take pride in your work, your product, or in making the important decisions in your life yourself, of course you'll become "mean-spirited...
...Your own thoroughly reliable correspondent, Ray Alan, also writes in his "EuroVista" column in the very same issue of The New Leader: "Too many of Begin's decisions are based on dogma rather than common sense (of course Jews have a right to live in Hebron, but the issue is not worth starting a fight or undermining a peace treaty for...
...Moreover, as a visitor there shortly before Mrs...
...Mollison concludes "that what we face this fall is not so much a political choice as a theological one...
...New York City Joseph Clark Anglophilia Robert Lekachman's critique of Britain today ("Death of an Anglophile," NL, June 16) was not entirely fair...
...Shlomo Avineri, former director-general of the Foreign Ministry under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, has examined the two main contending schools of thought about the West Bank in the Jerusalem Post (June 1 -7...
...Indeed, as sociologists have pointed out, ressentimenl grows as relative differences of income and status diminish...
...and the shrill English feminist voice has a history that dates back to the Wife of Bath...
...Oxford and Cambridge granted women degrees before Yale or Princeton deigned to do so...
...The Illinois congressman, he says, emerged from his Evangelical upbringing convinced "that man is inherently evil...
...But, after all, Britain is the first Western democracy to elect a woman leader...
Vol. 63 • July 1980 • No. 13
