Correspondence
Correspondence KRAUTHAMMER'S WAR CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER is to be commended for his detailed account of the truth about the Middle East conflict ("Arafat's War," Sept. 3). Unfortunately, most of the...
...They desire, and seek, the destruction of Israel...
...It's just a sign that savvy businessmen run Viacom, whose MTV unit delivers roughly $1 billion in annual revenues...
...Any approach to the Palestinian-Israeli problems must include discussing this infamous meeting, as it set the agenda for Zionism...
...It is as if the Palestinians have no legitimate claims of oppression or violence being inflicted upon them...
...PETE MUNSEY Baltimore, MD THE SCRAPBOOK SEEMS PUZZLED that MTV balked at running a video that promotes drug use...
...Israel, in its never-ending search for peace, has taken risks by entering peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan...
...Safer to keep selling sex to kids rather than risk additional scrutiny...
...Krauthammer is wrong in his analysis of the situation and of Arafat...
...Separation will not be a solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, even after Arafat and his collaborators are chased out...
...Rammalla, Jericho, Beit-Lehem, and Beit-Jalla surround the Jerusalem metropolitan area...
...Time will be the crucial element here, and President Bush will need to understand beforehand the depth of the solution underway in order to summon the strength to allow the action to conclude...
...While she would no doubt prefer Heather Has Two Mommies, One Hundred Years ofSolitude: The Picture Edition, or I'm A Happy Sandinista, our family will stick with our cupcake-chewing friend...
...The American public has been given short shrift by the press and news media and by all political parties...
...It did the same when it agreed to the return of Arafat and his clique to the region and offered undreamed-of concessions to the Palestinians...
...MARVIN WOLFERT Foxboro, MA I WAS PLEASED TO READ Charles Krauthammer's article regarding the moral right Israel has to defend itself and the pragmatic and ultimately moral way it is attempting this self-defense...
...This is a country that should be respected and admired, not defamed...
...ED LASKY Northbrook, IL THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER PEARL of an article by Charles Krauthammer, who manages to articulate so much common sense so effortlessly...
...Thus, the probability of succeeding while operating from these areas is much greater than from Gaza, which is relatively isolated by vast agricultural regions...
...Because they would rather live in the democratic state of Israel than under the dictatorial and corrupt Palestinian Authority...
...This was somewhat surprising coming from Krauthammer, and is almost certainly a move that would dele-gitimize the Jewish people's religious, historical, national, and moral claim to the entire land of Israel...
...only the good and peace-loving Jews have any legitimacy...
...one day the Palestinians will hopefully get competent and non-corrupt leadership...
...But the action Krauthammer sketches will test Bush's wisdom and strength, and so it is most important that he be prepared in advance to stand against the hurricane when it hits...
...The rights of an indigenous people must be restored...
...3), and hurrah for President Bush for sticking by this superb children's book in the face of mean-spirited criticism...
...One wonders why the state Department is having such a tough time catching on...
...MICHAEL BALCH Iowa City, IA IN HIS PASSIONATE STYLE, Charles Krauthammer makes the case that Israel has no choice but to go on an all-out offensive against Arafat...
...The current violence in Israel is solvable...
...What is underneath is called anti-Semitism...
...They have been proven correct...
...As Krauthammer says, and as must be repeated again and again, "the mask is off...
...These middle-aged executives are making a mint peddling sexual promiscuity to teens...
...Shchem (Nablus) and Kalkilia are near Hadera, Natanya, Herzelia, and the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area...
...As Krauthammer clearly explains, by now a generation of Palestinians has been brought up on hatred of Israel, Zionism, and Jews...
...MICHAEL C. BYRNE Asheville, NC HIGH MINDED C'MON, GUYS, LIGHTEN UP...
...Instead of discussion, we have had 50 years of Zionist propaganda...
...Recriminations do nothing...
...Israel is America's only true ally in the region, and the region's only democracy...
...Since the founding of Israel, the Palestinians have been bludgeoned over the head continuously in all sorts of ways...
...President Bush seems to me inclined favorably toward Israel's plight and cause, and has given clear evidence that he resists imposing a peace on Israel...
...The only solution is a total war that will clear the area from Arafat, his collaborators, and his soldiers...
...I'm surprised to find THE WEEKLY STANDARD in league with MTV in its fit of selective priggishness...
...Finally, why should Arafat bother waging guerrilla warfare from Gaza, which is relatively distant from the main Israeli cities, when he can wage that war from Judea and Samaria, within a short distance from all Israeli population centers...
...But they know that if they added a pro-drug message to the mix, people might finally take notice of MTV's young viewership...
...The relative quiet on the Gaza front should not be taken as permanent for a number of reasons: First, the differences in the geography of the flat Gaza strip compared with mountainous Judea and Samaria...
...No wall will protect Israel from suicide bombers and other forms of guerrilla warfare...
...As the father of a 16-month-old, I've received a crash course in children's books...
...The bloodshed can continue ad infinitum, or the Israeli government can opt to "throw the bum out," as was done by past Arab leaders who demonstrated less patience than Israel has for the murder and chaos that follow in Arafat's wake...
...Krauthammer is not only right about Arafat's intentions and what Israel must do to deal with the eight increasingly destructive years of the oslo deception...
...His solution to violence is violence against the Palestinian people...
...ROBERT J. TILLMAN Richmond Hill, NY I AGREE WITH Charles Krauthammer's analysis, but not his conclusions...
...No agreement between Arafat and Israel will succeed because of a signed piece of paper and a handshake...
...There has been absolutely no balance in the information given to the public and no direct criticism of the Zionist conspiracy to disenfranchise the Palestinian people...
...JEANETTE GOLDSMITH Brooklyn, NY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER'S SOLUTION to the violence in the Middle East put him exactly in the Meir Kahane camp...
...As a political conservative and former pothead, I'm willing to bet most of your writers are about my age and am doubtful they spent their formative 20s wagging their finger at the cannabis...
...MICHAEL PARANZINO Rockville, MD...
...They deserve better leaders...
...Indeed, as has become evident to all who have eyes to see, Arafat is a liability to peace...
...Third, infiltrators do manage to get through the Gaza "wall," as did the murderers of the three soldiers in the Margaliot outpost in late August...
...This law has created an apartheid state...
...The most galling has been the enactment of the Nationality Law and the 1972 Israeli Supreme Court ruling on it...
...She will recognize its profound truth and, as President Bush's chief foreign policy adviser, be in a position to prepare him for the inevitable...
...All these, under the umbrella of Israeli security control...
...This war should be followed by annexation of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza to Israel, imposing Israeli sovereignty over the area and establishing an autonomy for the civilian self-rule of the Palestinians...
...In contradistinction to this claim, the mythical "Pales-tinians"—undistinguishable until 53 years ago from Jordanians, syrians, Lebanese, or other citizens of the ottoman Empire—have none...
...Yet, in return, the Palestinian Authority has consistently violated its agreements under the oslo accord by engaging in anti-semitic propaganda, brainwashing its children to hate, enlarging its armed forces beyond what was agreed to, and engaging in massive violence...
...Not only the Palestinians, but the Arab world, is interested in more, much more, than "land for peace...
...The Palestinian leadership has constantly failed its own people and brought tragedy to the entire region...
...The silly little ditty "Because I Got High" is just that: a silly little ditty (The Scrap-book, Sept...
...He is right in his estimate that Israel will have at most three or four days before pressure on Bush to stop a massive Israeli action against the enemy will become overwhelming...
...Unfortunately, most of the media, whether deliberately or ignorantly, get it wrong...
...Jenin is close to Afula, the Haifa metropolitan area, and Hadera...
...Open discussions are the answer...
...Why have the Muslims living within Israel proper barely protested...
...The beginning of the current crisis was in New York City in the Hotel Bilt-more, where 600 Zionists met during World War II and decided the fate of the Palestinian people...
...The Very Hungry Caterpillar is among the best of them: My son loves it and I can read it to him repeatedly without mind-numbing boredom—surely the test of a children's book that works...
...The only disputable element of Krauthammer's strategy is the part that calls for evacuating some settlements after the inevitable, and long overdue, Israeli attack on Arafat himself...
...The result for its own people has been loss of jobs, chaos, etc...
...Leave it to a spoilsport like the New York Times's Gail Collins to draft this friendly and harmless (and decidedly non-political) proto-insect into her anti-Bush drivel...
...Unlike the Palestinian terrorists who target innocent civilians, Israelis risk their own lives to stop those directly responsible for violence...
...Let them unequivocally, in word and deed, and over a sustained period, repudiate that position, and they would see Israel modify its position accordingly...
...To their credit, some Jews protested that this conference would produce only trouble and by its nature not succeed...
...It has attempted to overthrow the Jordanian government, wrecked Lebanon, supported saddam Hussein in his invasion of Kuwait (which led to the expulsion of Palestinian laborers from the Gulf states), and attacked American and Western (as well as Israeli) people...
...It denies rights to the Palestinians that would be naturally assumed by any person familiar with democracy...
...JUSTIN C. DANILEWITZ Villanova, PA THE WEEKLY STANDARD MUST ensure that Condoleezza Rice reads Charles Krauthammer's penetrating analysis, "Arafat's War...
...Second, in many areas, the fence in Gaza is torn down in a matter of days after it is erected...
...All the land belongs to the Jews, and the Palestinians have no claim whatsoever...
...ISRAEL D. NEBENZAHL Graduate School of Business Administration Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel LITERARY GREATNESS HURRAH FOR Andrew Ferguson's stirring defense of The Very Hungry Caterpillar ("The President's Very Favorite Book," Sept...
Vol. 7 • September 2001 • No. 1
