Secretary Baker’s Mideast Visit
I am chagrined at our State Department’s constant refrain that Jewish settlements in the West Bank or so-called “occupied territories” are “an obstacle to peace.”
Why cannot the State Department understand and have the courage to state that the real “obstacle to peace” is the total absence of democracy in the Arab lands? The real obstacle to peace is the fact that all the Arab states (with the exception of Egypt) are in a declared state of war against Israel. The real obstacles to peace are the Arab countries’ continual boycott of Israel and their refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist in the Middle East.
How long will this crucifixion of Israel last?
RABBI SIDNEY S. GUTHMAN, Long Beach
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