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Tamarack Camps were amazing. On
the first day in camp, Executive
Director Jonah Gelle, said, "We have
the best job in the world; we work
with kids and we get paid." We have
the best job not only because we work
with kids, but also we work with
ple from other cultures and countries.
The program gave me not only
experience with kids, but also experi-
ence with youth of different ages from
all over the world. It gave me the
chance to see and understand
American culture, the chance to see
Judaism from another side (the better
side I think) and the chance to test
myself in the independence of life.
On my days off and out of camp, I
had a great time, too. I cannot speak
about this summer without telling
about Ken Korotkin of Bloomfield
Hills, who is a great man — nice and
the best host I ever saw.
Still, in all of this independence,
there is one big boss who keeps every-
thing in order and helped me with
every important question; that was
Jonah Geller. I want to thank Jonah
for all he does, for being honest and
funny. Second, I want to tell him that
Camp Maas is really the place where a
child's and a man's dreams come true.

Immanuel Miller
Beitlechem Haglilit, Israel

Editor's Note: Immanuel, 17, was a
Tamarack camper in 2002 and a junior
counselor in 2005.

No Moral Benefit

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It has become apparent that Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and
those who approve of his disengage-
ment policy have come to believe that
by giving up some acres of actual
earth Israel has gained a moral high
_ground with the international com-
munity. Nothing could be further
from reality ("Looking Ahead," Aug.
25, page 66).
Apart from the obvious drawbacks
of seeming to reward terror (which it
does) and dangerously widening a
fault line of divisiveness within Israel's
own society, the removal of Jewish
settlers from Gaza will impress no one
but the Israelis who backed the disen-
gagement. And there is an important
reason why this terrible disruption of
Israel's civic peace will only aggravate
the world's already skeptical attitude

toward the ethical propriety of Israel's
policies.
From 1967 on, Israel has always
promoted, upheld and fought for the
idea that there should be no exchange
of territories without negotiation. The
unilateral disengagement from the
Gaza area has undermined this basic
principle and the effect of it will be,
has already been, that Jews have never
had the right to be there or anywhere
beyond the boundaries set in 1949.
All these years, Israel has main-
tained that the territories within the
U.N.-brokered peace agreements are
in dispute and that Israel has as much
moral claim on them as the
Palestinians. In one stroke, the idea of
"disputed territories" has, for all
intents and purposes, been nullified.
Instead of demonstrating an assur-
ance that the "right" thing has been
done, the retreat from Gaza is a pow-
erful signal to the.world that Israel
has very little faith in its territorial
mandate. And if Israel has such a
shallow belief in Jewish claims on
Gaza, "Why," says the world, "should
we believe in any of Israel's asserted
rights, including the right to exist?"

Mitzi Alvin
Franklin

No Comparison

I am in agreement with Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and the Israeli
government, but do not want to com-
pare the Israeli police, forced to
remove the Gaza settlers, to the
Jewish police in the Lemberg ghetto
in 1942, who rounded up the Jews for
"resettlement," which meant death.

William Weiss
West Bloomfield

Removal Went Well

We should be thankful that the
painful task of removing the settlers
from the Gaza area was completed
without bloodshed of Jew against Jew.
The task of protecting the settlers
with 1.5 million Palestinian Arabs
surrounding them would only result
in continued loss of life to settlers and
to the young Israeli soldiers trying to
protect them.

Irving Handelman
Oak Park