Middle East conflict

Press, 11 January 1986, Page 16

Middle East conflict

Sir,—Graeme Yardley could have reminded us that in the 1940 s the United States provided arms, money and moral support for Jewish terrorists engaged in ambushing buses, bombing buildings and killing Arab civilians as well as British troops, in Palestine. The popularity of films like “Rambo” shows the American collective psyche as essentially fascist. All of America’s troubles in the Middle East are a direct' consequence of the mindless pro-Zionist sympathies of successive administrations. Americans, not noted for their political acumen, cannot grasp that Israel is, to the Arabs, merely an armed United States enclave in an alien part of the world — a kind of Middle Eastern Rhode Island. It is now finally dawning on the American public that terrorism is a two-edged sword. So far United States taxpayers have only had to prop up Zionism with billions of dollars. Sooner or later, American parents will be sending their “boys” to the Middle East to die in another unwinnable, war.—Yours, etc., lAN HOOD. • Blenheim, January 9, 1986. !