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Letters to the Editor & A Correction
Wednesday 02 April @ 12:01:43 |
 1. Re: Review of Korczak’s Children 3-26-03
2. Re: Winona LaDuke 3-19-03
3. Correction
Re: Review of Korczak’s Children 3-26-03
Ed Felien used his review of “Korczak's Children” (3-26-03 Pulse) to grind his propagandistic axe regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The story of the Warsaw Ghetto that I cherish is the story of the heroic resistance of the Jews who refused to be passive victims and fought back against their oppressors,” he wrote.
So much for Felien's “heroic” Jews. By the end of the review, Felien has decided that the Children's Theater Company's brave, affecting tale of moral courage—personified by Dr. Janusz Korczak, who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and chose to accompany the children in his care to the death camp—points up the “horrible irony” that the children of Holocaust survivors (“Ariel Sharon and his generation”) have become just like the Nazis.
This facile, tasteless argument ignores some basic facts of history: The Jews felt that it was imperative to create their own nation after the mass murder of the Nazi era—a genocide that the world ignored—and the Arab nations have tried repeatedly to wipe Israel off the map.
The creation of Israel is bound up with the dispossession of the Palestinians. There should be a negotiated agreement that allows Palestinians to live in their own state. But how does this happen?
Over the last 30 months, since Yasser Arafat launched his war, hundreds of Israelis have been murdered and injured in vicious suicide bombings on buses, in cafes and at social and religious gatherings. In Felien's eyes, Israel is a Nazi regime (“the enemy we fought in World War II”), because it has acted to safeguard civilians from outrages comparable to what New Yorkers experienced on September 11.
“Korczak's Children” is a great play, but Felien should be ashamed of his cheap effort to distort its meaning in pursuit of his benighted political agenda.
Mordecai Specktor
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Re: Winona LaDuke 3-19-03
According to the corporate media, the U.S. government is engaged in a humanitarian action in Iraq to save the population from a fate that is worse than the death the U.S. military is raining down on them—thus such headlines as “Iraqi wounded treated with compassion, caution”; “Delay in humanitarian aid deliveries concerns U.S.”; and “Bush administration unveils blueprint for rebuilding Iraq.”
What a releif to read in the recent Pulse Winona La Duke’s factual analysis of the illegality of this war. My heartfelt thanks to Pulse, Winona and Roger Lootine, whose wonderful cartoon “The Real Axis of Evil,” tells it like it is when it comes to the only people who will gain from this war—the multinational corporations connected with it and their investors.
Polly Mann
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— Correction —
Tamara Sadlo took the fine photographs of the Fine Line in the 3-19-03 issue and we did not give her credit.
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