DEAR EDITOR
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Swinging Away I have generally thought that Daniel Schorr was in...
...I am certain that Schorr does not believe in guilt by association...
...Following international precedent, the immediate solution is to complete the population exchange the Arabs started, and transfer the Arabs back to Arab states...
...People still overestimate the power of economic improvements to quench Islamic enmity...
...Israeli Arabs' hostility still is being overlooked, this time within the Green Line...
...President Bush is not responsible for his son Neil's negligence, unethical behavior, lapses, or conflicts of interest...
...Appeasement doesn't work with fanatics...
...But one would have thought that being a detached observer, Daniel Schorr might view this matter within the context of Russian and Soviet history as well as autocracy and authoritarianism...
...They pose the same kind of demographic threat as their relatives in the territories...
...Palestinian Jews are no more colonists than the imported Arabs...
...4. "Stealing the Headlines...
...Judging by his explanations of recent events in his "WashingtonNotebook" column of July 9-23, however, I now think that he needs practice in political swatting...
...With such a batting average, is Dan Schorr still a reliable hitter...
...Furthermore, since as VicePresident he was not a policy architect in the Reagan Administration, Bush should not be linked, inferentially, to the alleged greed that Ronald Reagan sparked—even if Americans rightly idealize Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel for their acts of conscience...
...Why should the U.S...
...Why, then, Schorr's sardonic tone and pessimism...
...Its apostle, Shlomo Avineri, whom Mirsky calls "one of Israel's prominent intellectuals," now advocates a PLO state (Horizons, summer 1990...
...New York City Richard H. Shulman...
...power has diminished than that U.S...
...Moreover, po novomy (in the new way), Soviet-German relations and JapanesePeople's Republic of China undertakings, respectively, signal less that U.S...
...Given the political history of the past 50 years, there have been many worse meetings of the mind...
...So why the focus at all...
...It is understandable (despite Schorr's adopting the viewpoint also) that many delegates to the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR were dissatisfied and frustrated after 54 months of perestroïka...
...Zionism, as the Jewish national liberation movement, seeks to right the historic injustice whereby the Arabs expelled most of the Jews from their homeland...
...control has been relinquished...
...obliquely prop up Fidel Castro's authoritarian regime...
...The real issue is that the Arab world, including local Arabs, want the entire country for themselves...
...will withhold material assistance to Moscow...
...The territorial Arabs hardly are different from their kin in the rest of Palestine (Jordan and Israel), or in the other Arab states from whence they came...
...New YorkCity Elliott A. Cohen Playing Territory The intifada surprised Israel, writes Yehudah Mirsky ("Fighting History," NL, May 14-28...
...Swinging Away I have generally thought that Daniel Schorr was in the Big Leagues of journalism...
...Although the Arabs already have 77 per cent of Palestine, they have forced a life-or-death ultimatum upon the Jews in the rest of the country...
...The Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are made out to be the indigenous population, but most are of immigrant stock...
...True, but strange, considering past Arab uprisings in the 1920s, '30s, '40s, and '70s even within the Green Line...
...3. "Gorbachev's Sinking Ship...
...The quid of a reunified Germany in NATO for the pro quo of assistance to the Soviet Union—or strategic equity in exchange for a manageable credit risk—is by no means a bad deal...
...Mirsky shows that such a state would exist to attack Israel...
...2. "Bush Without a Wallet...
...It is neither "silly" nor "a gesture to the Right" in America for President Bush to determine that while the Soviet government aids Cuba, the U.S...
...Palestine was partitioned twice before, leading to war instead of peace...
...The real issue is missed when people fabricate a " Palestinian" nationality to fit only Arabs living in the disputed territories that are one-tenth of Palestine...
...Nor can anyone expect new kinds of confederation among enemies to last longer than the unnaturally internationalized cities of Tangier, Trieste and Danzig...
...Let me run down his topics seriatim: 1. "Kohl's Leveraged Buyout...
Vol. 73 • September 1990 • No. 11
