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Letters from page 6

Reject Wadie Said At WSU
I am writing to voice concerns about
the IN coverage of Wadie Said's con-
sideration for a faculty position at the
Wayne State University Law School in
Detroit. I believe that the most trou-
bling aspects of Mr. Said were not suffi-
ciently relayed to the public in the arti-
cle ("WSU Staff Candidate's Suitability
Questioned," Nov. 16, page 16).
Most troubling were the statements
he made at the student interview ses-
sion at the law school. Mr. Said stated to
me: that in regards to Palestinian "resis-
tance,""certain types of actions, armed
actions, are not murder and they're not
terrorism"; that he supports the call
for divestiture from Israel; and that the
Israeli army's position is to beat the
Palestinian people into submission.
Another problematic aspect that is
most relevant to his potential hiring at
the law school is his extremely biased
and often misleading scholarship. The
letter that StandWithUs-Michigan
sent to [WSU] President Irvin Reid,
the law school dean and the WSU
board analyzed and documented the
glaring problems with his so-called
scholarship. Besides his advocacy for a
"one-state solution" (which too many
are code words for genocide), Mr. Said
ignores relevant scholarship and histor-
ical facts. He presents a distorted pic-
ture of the conflict between Israelis and
Palestinians in his various writings.
Mr. Said expressly stated that he
aspires (and believes he is qualified) to
teach classes on law in the Middle East,
immigration law and what he labeled
the "so-called war on terrorism:'While
people are lulled into acceptance by the
fact that Mr. Said is being considered
for a position as a criminal law profes-
sor, the truth is that once he is hired, he
will have great leeway and opportunity
to teach the classes he truly desires
— classes that will give him a platform
to preach his extremist Israel-hating
ideology and revisionist history.
I pray that a more suitable candidate
is selected.

200 clergy and congregants from the
Dearborn minstrel: youth, families,
seniors, Christian and Muslim.We
continued with 60 clergy and congre-
gants joined us on Nov. 12, as Sherri led
them through a tour of the Holocaust
Memorial Center in Farmington Hills
and a meeting with a Holocaust survivor.
We need your help. We need more
people to join us in the difficult, but
necessary, process of interaction with
our Christian and Muslim neighbors.
If civilization is to survive, we must
work together to heal our communities
and create a safer world.

Brenda Rosenberg

Bloomfield Hills

Bush's Support
Was it a mistake for the United States to
invade Iraq, to remove Saddam Hussein
from power and to install a "democratic
government"? (Editor's Letter, "Tehran's
Tyranny," Nov. 16, page 5). It was not
if the following is assumed: Either in
our lifetime or our children's lifetime,
a Middle East country like Iran will
become a nuclear power and initiate a
nuclear war.
If such an assumption is reasonable,
then, arguably, the best hope to prevent
a nuclear conflict is for democracy to
take root in Iraq and spread to places
like Iran. In part, President Bush's lega-
cy depends on such an outcome.
Sadly, at present, this expectation
seems remote. Any possibility that it
can be achieved may, in turn, depend
on who the next president is. Will it be
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who basical-
ly supports Bush's Middle East policy?
As discussed in the Editor's Letter,
McCain understands the existential
threat to Israel posed by nuclear-armed
Iran. Left unsaid, a similar threat exists
for Saudi Arabia.
For Sen. McCain to receive the
Republican nomination for president
in 2008, and should he choose to run,
President Bush's support could be cru-
cial. And, in turn, that support could
ultimately benefit his legacy.

Jonathan Howard Schwartz

Irving Warshawsky

West Bloomfield

West Bloomfield

More Good Will
Just wanted to share another step of
breaking down barriers and creating
understanding in our community:
On Aug. 28, the night of an anti-Israel
rally in Dearborn, Sherri Schiff and I
meet with the Dearborn Ministerial at
St. Paul's Lutheran Church to finalize
our plans of bringing Reuniting the
Children -of Abraham to Dearborn on
Nov. 5. at Sacred Heart Church.
We had dinner, watched the docu-
mentary and engaged in dialogue with

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Corrections
• It should have been noted that Marc
Shulman, then-chairman of Michigan's
House Appropriations Committee in
Lansing, was instrumental in getting
the Detroit Jewish community added
to the state's multicultural budget with
$250,000 in 2003 ("Increasing The
Line," Nov. 9, page 18).
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Nov. 23 should have stated that all cook-
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