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Dear Ms. Rudoren:
I am a retired 77 year old political science professor, still active in
writing for both professional journals and the general reading public.
My father was one of the generation of Russian Jews who escaped the
pogroms and grew up in the lower East Side of NYC in the early 20th
century. Growing up in New York in the 1940s-1950s I experienced
plenty of anti-Semitism and was a passionate Zionist. In 1970, after
serving three years as an anti-submarine warfare officer on a U.S.
destroyer, I volunteered my services to the Israeli Navy in the event of
war with Egypt (which had recently acquired four Soviet subs). In 1989
I was a Fulbright lecturer at Haifa University, and I have visited and
lectured in Israel on many other occasions.
I trust these facts establish my Zionist credentials. However, for the
last forty years I have specialized, both in my writing and teaching, in
the Arab-Israeli conflict, and as a consequence I now regard Israel as a
moral disaster--a betrayer of what we have long believed to be Jewish
rationalism, enlightenment, and commitment to the highest values of
civilization. It is a disgraceful state, and an increasingly ignorant
and in many ways disgraceful society, a pariah state that fully deserves
its pariah status. Aside from its moral evil, it is also insanely
self-destructive, and it will be something of a miracle if it survives.
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