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following arrogant statement
"as a Palestinian, I am offer-
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Actually the "Palestinians"
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that is to serve as an instru-
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State of Israel. When they
have finished serving that
purpose and Israel is
eliminated, they too, the
Palestinian entity, will also
disappear like Lebanon did,
perhaps into a greater Syria.
Even Yassir Arafat said
that Palestine is really part of
"greater Syria."
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Gary Rosenblatt's May 31
Opinion article, "Do We Care
How Israel Spends?" was
right on target . . . except that
Israel is a democracy and
democracies are messy.
Our own government
spends fortunes on needless
special interest groups. It's a
price we have to pay for a
democracy.
Everything Mr. Rosenblatt
wrote about Israel is true
about us as well. Let's not
throw stones at glass walls.
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r Editor Gary Rosenblatt's
opinion piece, "Do We Care
How Israel Spends?" is
replete with flawed
arguments.
He complains of increases
in Israel government support
to religious schools: the per
capita expenditure for
religious education remains
at 65 percent of that spent on
secular students, yet parents
who send their children to
religious schools are taxed at
the same rates as their non-
observant fellow citizens. This
disparity was far greater un-
til 1989.
If religious parties use
politics to rectify
discriminaton they endured
for 40 years under left-wing
governments who had the
votes to get away with it —
that's parliamentary
democracy, not tyranny.
Quoting funding increases
for religious schools in ab-
solute dollar amounts ignores
both Israel's high inflation
rate and the fact that in re-
cent years nearly all Jews
making aliyah from the West
have been observant, and
there have been large in-
creases in the number of
students attending religious
schools.
Mr. Rosenblatt argues that
"housing goes up overnight in
the West Bank," but fails to
mention that municipalities
under left-wing control, like
Haifa, have blocked the erec-
tion of prefab housing, while
the government has no such
problems in the territories —
and he assumes that settling
the territories is a bad idea.
That is still a subject of
debate, last I heard.
His call for rent control is
the worst. It is precisely that
increase in rents which will
encourage investors to build
rental apartments, desperate-
ly needed in Israel for years,
but never economically
feasible.
"We have the right to see
that our investment is well
spent," he piously intones.
Tzedekah is still a command-
ment for Jews, not an invest-
ment, and is "sold" to us with
slogans like, "One People,
One Heart." If American
Jews want to invest in Israel,
encourage the government to
privatize, and engage in other
sensible economic practices,
while doing so, that would be
good, but it is a separate
issue.
Last is the tired demand for
electoral reform in Israel. lb
assume that the system that
works in a country of 260
million with a long tradition
of democracy, will succeed in
an endangred, recently
established country of four
million with a different
population mix, very different
cultural sources, and a com-
pletely different set of
political problems to solve,
that further purports to be a
"Jewish" state, is narcissism
at best .. .
Once again, Labor is using
the heavy club of American
Jewish financial support to
attempt to accomplish that
which they have failed to do ,
at the polls, and that, Mr.
Rosenblatt is the opposite of
democracy, and contains no
love. Indeed it is tyranny.
Sol P. Lachman
Oak Park
'Occupied
Territories'
Israel's "Occupied Ter-
ritories" are no more occupied
than are Texas or Ken-
nebunkport, Maine.
Occupied territories are the
Baltic states, Tibet and Nor-
thern Ireland.
The United Nations and
well-meaning governments
should concentrate their ef-
forts on freeing these coun-
tries that are truly occupied.
Ed Kohl
Farmington Hills
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