![]() ![]() The most important area in which I agreed with Mr. I sent more than fifty letters to my acquaintances in Israel protesting this error, which has done the state much harm in world opinion. Stone in regretting the fact that Israel chose as her spokesman following the war General Moshe Dayan it was bad enough to have a military man posturing before the world as the philosophical leader of Judaism, but it grew worse when he spoke vengefully and as an uncomplicated nationalist. I also supported the supreme court judge who charged that Israel’s laws concerning the parentage of Jews were similar to the Nuremburg laws of Hitler in the press the judge was abused and in the Knesset threatened with impeachment. For example, I was if anything more opposed than he to the theocracy which held Israel in its grip, for I had witnessed the agony an American Jew encounters when he tries to get married in Israel I understood why so many young Israelis were atheists. Stone’s essay on Israeli-Arab relations, for I knew the author to have impeccable qualifications: continuing concern regarding the problem, distinguished publication on it, and repeated trips to Israel, starting in 1945 and embracing the entire period of statehood.įurthermore, on many important aspects of Israel I knew that Mr. None of your readers could have looked forward with more eagerness than I to Mr. ![]()
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