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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. CLASSIFIED GET RESULTS! Call The Jewish News 354-5959 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 •