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Article: American Jews: A Mideast Catalyst; The Stockholm dialogue with Arafat was a good thing.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 27, 1988
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I sometimes wonder why "self-hating" Jews bother. Enough hatred
seems to come their way from others to save them that trouble.
This insult has not yet been hurled publicly at the five
American Jews who went to Stockholm to help coax peaceful noises out
of a Mr. Y. Arafat, whose last known address is Baghdad, Iraq. But
there is a troubling harshness in the vituperation that is beginning
to rain down on them.
"The Jews' Jesse Jackson," George F. Will writes in The
Washington Post of group leader Rita Hauser (not a plaudit, I think).
"Well meaning," says Ben Halpern in The Los Angeles Times, a run-up
phrase you use only for people you are about to knee-cap.
The group was "used as a cat's ...