Editor,
Shlomo Karni's letter in the Sept. 7th issue of the Daily Lobo begins with, "Let us set aside, for the moment, all the polemics and concentrate on facts." He then proceeds to give a "history" long discredited, even by Israeli historians, although some schools in Israel are beginning again to teach nationalistic myth as fact.
Israel's early leaders, including David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin, made it clear that the partition of Palestine was unacceptable and that every scrap of "Eretz Yisrael" must be Jewish - all the way to the Euphrates. When the Palestinians refused to accept the political hegemony of an imported minority - "fiendish," indeed - the Israeli government used that as a pretext to dissolve the partition and occupy even more of Palestine.
As a result, it defies credibility that a consensus could be reached in Israel to return to the borders defined in United Nations Resolution 181, which includes the partitioning of Jerusalem, a point on which no Israeli government has ever budged. Moreover, all settlement activity would not only have to cease, but be thoroughly erased.
I have come to expect this level of misinformation from ordinary American citizens, who are guilty of nothing worse than believing what they see on television. However, it is particularly egregious that a person of Dr. Karni's credentials can feel free to write such pernicious nonsense.
Dan Paravz,
Graduate Student
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