Radical Arabs threaten Israel
Pat Payne is correct in pointing out the relationship between Nazis and Arab extremists, but he does not go far enough back in history (“End home grown terrorism,” ODE, 11/06). In fact, a number of Arab leaders, most notably the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, were notorious Nazi sympathizers during World War II.
The Grand Mufti did everything within his power to make it impossible for the Jews and Arabs of Palestine to live in peace, agitating Arab attacks on the Jewish inhabitants who lived in the region or immigrated there upon their release from the Nazi concentration camps. These attacks were a major cause of the United Nations’ partition of Palestine that resulted in the creation of the state of Israel.
This legacy of anti-Jewish racism has persisted among the radical Arabs to the present day and is one major reason why Israel cannot put its own security at risk. They are living among a sea of people who will not be satisfied until Israel is obliterated.
Geoff Cooper
law student
Right against rights
In response to Attorney General John Ashcroft’s order to take action against Oregon doctors who prescribe lethal drugs for terminally ill patients: I just love how Republicans support states’ rights, except when they don’t like what the states are doing.
Chuck Slothower
freshman
pre-journalism
Stein for governor
Only one candidate for governor has taken a stand against the crippling rate increases approved by the state Public Utility Commission. It was Beverly Stein. She demanded that the commission demonstrate some leadership by rolling back rate hikes.
It’s not the first time that Bev Stein has stood up to the PUC. In the late 1970s, she sued the PUC on behalf of senior citizens and was successful in postponing a rate increase.
Stein is one candidate demonstrating leadership in this time of economic crisis. We’re already in a recession, and increases in the cost of living and natural gas when we’re already in a recession will absolutely cripple some manufacturing companies.
I wonder where the other candidates are on this issue. That’s only one of the many reasons I’m supporting Stein for governor.
Arnold H. Ismach
emeritus professor of journalism
University of Oregon
