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Nonetheless, Studs’s assertion that he is among the “voices in the Jewish community” who love the Tribune’s coverage of Israel left me gasping. To my recollection (and I am something of a codger too), Studs has not publicly endorsed any concern of the Jewish community since the demise of Hitler. This is, of course, his unfettered right, but one may ask Studs: Where were you, sir, when Israel was besieged in 1967 or when Soviet Jewry sought freedom or today, when anti-Semitism is rampant in Europe and on many American college campuses?
Sadly, this is proven by Studs’s venerative reference to Bertie Russell, the looney Brit don who advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament in the 1950s. If you were willing to leave the West defenseless against Joe Stalin, it follows in leftthink that Arafat is a peacemaker!
N. Michigan
