November 22, 1951 (vol. 62, iss. 51) • Page Image 4
… forthcoming Win- ter issue ending with either futility, disas- ter or frustration, must lie with the student contributor. Yet Generation has not been without a lighter tone. An occasional bit of fine satire has…
… very top of the mountain is what remains of an Arab village, now a mere rubble and jumble of yellow stones, piled higgledy-piggledy on top of each other. Just below these ruins are the sleeping quarters…
… monastic living, so utterly outside the ex- perience of most Americans. Yet to the American newly-arrived here, there is something grimly moving, too, about the mouldering ruins of the Arab village. For…
…, to the village and the Arabs who lived in it? The Arabs, he says, ran away during the Arab-Israeli War. As for the village, it was dynamited after the Arabs ran away. This was the policy of the…
… government, he says wryly-to "dissuade" the Arabs from re- turning. What does he think of this matter of the taking over of Arab land? Does it ever worry him and the other members of the Kibbutz? THIS…
… from all over the world, to sacrifice everything in or- der to build a new life and a new nation on this inhospitable soil. Yet there is weakness too. It lies in the simple fact that almost 900,000 Arabs…
… that the Arabs started the war, and that they would have driven every last Jew into the sea if they had been able to. It is true that most of the Arabs ran away. The terrible need of the Jews for a land…
… all sorts of reasons, it is in the plain American interest that the extraordinary experiment here should not fail. Even so, the passionate Arab reaction to the establishment of this state should be…
… accepted for what it is-one of the central political factors in this whole threatened, vital area. And the Arab reaction is as un- derstandable in its way as the desperate need and the terrible memories…
… as the entire student body if you in- sist on continuing your present "intentional humor" policy. I shall be watching, and waiting for evi- dence of your decision on this mat- ter. -Stan Challis EDITOR…










