Holding Hands
Given another opportunity to examine the wire photo of PLO’s Yasser Arafat and Israel’s Shimon Peres “holding hands” (via Norine Dresser’s Multicultural Manners article Sept. 16), I was struck with an additional symbolism of this sign of enmity set aside”: Peres firmly grasps the limp, hesitant palm of his new “friend.”
BETTE HENNING, Redondo Beach
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