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Institute for Palestine Studies, the conditions of Arabs in Editor's note: The in to This theme recurs in the Zionist writings of LeoPinsker following guest opinion, response ot Israel. columns Marsha Jark and Del Gustafson, was and The odor Herzl, of Ahad Ha'Am and AD. Gordon, by prepared Voices of opposition arc being heard within Israel (see mem the UNL Arab Student Chaim Weizmann and Ben-Gurio- by ben of Organization. Arie Bober, ed. The Other Israel, Doubleday, 1972). Three In "Judaism and Nietzsche," Ahad Ha'Am argued that with Israelis, Hafan Haneghbi, Moshe Machover, and Akiva Orr The two columns on the UN resolution that described the Jews were essentially a superior race. He agreed Left Review, No. 65, January-Februar- y 1971) under- Zionism as a form of racism Nebraskan, Nov. 20 and Nietzsche that "the highest moral aim is not the advance- (New (Daily take a sophisticated analysis of Israeli political in Nov. are and Judaism and Zion- the human race as a whole, but the realization of a economy 2) uninformed misleading. ment of which underline the contrast between the ism are not more human in the chosen few." they colonizing synonymous. perfect type and discriminatory character of the state and official Zion- election Most Orthodox Jews considered Zionism's secular He asserted that the Jews "have regarded their ist mythology. not as anti-Zion-ist approach to Jewish redemption "a heresy disguised in as an end to which everything else was subordinated, Uri Davis, an Israeli CO, is an active in exile. a means to the the rest Essays, anti-Zioni- st sacred vestments." Zionism was a product of Western ideo- happiness of of humanity" The Israeli Socialist Organization is an party 81 ; logy and had little to do with Jewish values or Middle East- Letters, Memoirs, trans. Leon Simon, Oxford, 1946, p. working in Israel. in Zionist ern culture. quoted in Alan Taylor,. "Vision and Intent Jewish opposition to Zionism is not new. Profiles of As the product of Zionist thought, Israel inherited the Thought," Ibrahim Abu-Lugho- d, ed. The Transformation five critics of Israel, one a minister, three Jewish, appeared latter's predispositions: "The existence of a single Jewish of Palestine, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, in The National Observer (October 11, 1975). Some distin- nationality defined in racial terms, the endemic hostility of 1971, p. 15). guished Jewish intellectuals, such as Issac Deutscher, If. Gentiles toward Jews, and the illegitimacy of Arab rights in Recently, Richard P. Stevens scrutinized the relationship Stone, George Steiner, Noam Chomsky and others, have celebrated Palestine' (Alan R. Taylor, "The Isolation of Israel," between Jan Christian Smuts, South African's been articulate against Zionism. Journal of Palestine Studies, prime minister, and Chaim Weizmann, Israel's fust presi- The Israeli anthropologist, Raphael Patai, and Jennifer Pale- Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1974, p. 87) dent, from 1917 to Smut's death in 1950 Journal of Patai Wing provided scientifically researched evidence in stine Studies, Vol. No. 1 , 1973). The The Jewish Race Limited space renders impossible any attempt at review- Ill, Myth of (Scribner's, 1975) refuting Jews are a distinct racial The ing here the extensive and detailed scholarly material on the As for Israel, the exiled Israeli Arab lawyer, Sabri Jiris, the view that entity. legal pro- this issue have been subject. Several specialists have stressed that the early Zion- examines in two scholarly works, The Arabs In Israel and blems related to only recently ist ideology, that Jews are a distinct racial entity. Democratic Freedoms in Israel, both published by the

pack can be purchased for about SI.80 but can't legally be When I put on a helmet, my hearing and seing ability are consumed on campus.) greatly reduced. This increases chances of an accident that Consumption on campus would save many students the can lead to injury, and yet this is the very thing that the problem of driving home from the bar drunk and the risk helmet law is supposed to prevent of a While Intoxicated fine. getting Driving Undoubtedly many people think the helmet law is for Should be on Go Big Red! liquor legalized campus? cyclist's own good and he would be a fool not to wear one. Jcfr Unger My body, my business Many who would criticize me for not wearing a safety de- vice because it is restrictive are guilty of the same thing Dear editor, Dear editor, We are former men to in touch themselves. both college trying keep The government has the right to pass laws that protect with the outside world. We are assistance requesting your the public from acts of individuals, but does it have the Anyone who goes out in the dark or near the water in this matter which is of to us. grave importance right to pass laws protecting an individual from himself? without reflective clothing or life belts is taking an unneces- Since we are first we are both incarcerated for the time, This issue is largely a moral one and I believe the answer risk. The is that there is a certain amount of risk with out there in the free sary point seeking correspondence you is no. Take for example the recently passed motorcycle hel- involved in almost everything we do, but if I want to risk world because now we know how and just lonely depressing met law. I don't think a person should be compelled to injury to myself by not wearing a helmet it's my business. life is. prison wear a helmet against his will. A helmet can be as much of a After all, it is It would be if would run my body. greatly appreciated you please hazard as it can be a help. Steve Pucppka this letter. All letters we receive will be answered. Below you will find a short profile of each of us. Thank you for your time and effort. Tony Lauriceila, No.136-67-1, age 29, height 57", amd mr uouw VAGOrm MIEtPtpES NO, mrACOQPlfCfW black blue weight 170 lb., hair, eyes. LIKE FOR m mr swa tLl'BS kffltifi W THl 139-93- W m, m? Jim McManues, No. 5, age 35, 5'7", 200 lb., MHO'. HO! MMlVS ? ALASkA IMt black hair, hazel eyes. CMRisrm mutit P.O. Box 69 Linum smiciAusi J smm mtttrmt London, Ohio J I C6UL6 AmtlZ SX&'K 43140 CrZK XfTA Special thanks s fiUi!) J Dear editor, I wrote and asked that you put a letter in the paper I received 14 and well for pen pals. Well, about letters I'm i-- Mil pleased. I would like to will this in the m know, you place poem paper? This is for all those who have written and do write. mm will be well , This appreciated. A special thanks to you for printing the letter. Me, Myself, and I Time and Space is all I occupy. hard For the next two years, I will be long climb Confined in this place of misery. My home is called E Six West, Language isn 't A four six and not the best. just grammar by My yard is surrounded four Marsha Jark By gray walls, By A lack of is a And trust by administrators toward students in each corner "Do know What's the French fiddle-de-dee- you languages? for ?' general rule and schools, which are for the stu- Are little guard stalls. supposedly dents, end up else as test scores are brought "Fiddle-de-de- e 's being anything not English," Alice replied gravely out to educators. m walk that all "Who ever said was?" impress parents, business people and yard day long, it said the Red Queen. would had a In that I hear a Alice They do better by seeing that each student hopes may song, thought she saw a way out of the built-i- n difficulty this crap detector with the to a phony poli- And then I'll dream of things to come; time. "If tell me what 'fiddle-de-de- ability spot youll language e is I'll tician or a lie a mile off able to For soon this two will be done. tell the French for it!" she without necessarily being years you exclaimed triumphantly spell it. But the Red Queen drew herself up rather and For the two I must do stiffly ' years that said, "Queens never make bargains." The best way of learning is the method, but its Have become much because of discovery lighter you. the Looking Gloss results are hardest to measure. Just as the man who is For all the letters that have sent, lfColl'ThShteachers you Apparently English never make bargains either taught to fish will be able to feed himself, so the student Well make this time much easier which spent. would explain the "back to basics" movement in who discovers how to what his own stan- education. recognize truth, dards of morality are and how to communicate in writing Thank been so kind, To some you all, you've people, progress is synonymous with a Riant has learned more than a few trite to apply t I 111 all in mind. backward. principles promise keep you step According to some educators, students are language. I'll return a letter so not word very fast, learning proper usage, spelling and sentence con- A mistake is made when we discern between good In that this will last Therefore hopei friendship always structions. they should be drilled in traditional English from understandable There is a difference William A. Graham until their heads turn into English. grammar turnips between , "Leave the bird be, Chester," and "I hope y P.O. Box 81248 . Numerous studies have shown that don t mind proficiency in cam-m- ar the heat, such as it isn't" One is English, Lincoln, Neb. 68501 does not correspond to no-n- o proficiency in wri tine The although some would criticize the word usage, whue correlation is to mathematical people Campus only ability. the other is there sentence nonsense; is a flaw in the bgic. Dear editor, Apparently diagrams make more sense One are consumed on at could train better If we teach how to us the so that they Alcoholic beverages being campus, conceivably writers by making students people language in thanks the NU Board Re- he on floor don t twist it to be or confuse then in parties and private, but to of the and meditate than by teaching them or say nonsense, to appreciation of gents it's still nono." flinch every time they recognize a preposition of language study and the many facets 8 schools allow and four of It is ironic that a child linguistics be Five other Big consumption of four, who has mastered the might gained. sale some of alcohol on in a that is still We might archetypal those five allow the of type campus. anguage way not fully understood, should finally dispense with images of the a It's hard on a bank later be to learn schoolmarm, Miss the errant Neither has caused problem. person's compelled about it in the stilted stvle of Fiddttch, who stands behind a the six- - witil of the account to pay up to 80 cents for beer at bar (a traditional grammarians. l,J?n birch rod and a dog-ear- ed copy McGuffey reader.