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being attacked and massacred by Jordanians, Lebanese Christians
and Shiites, or Syrians.
If anti-Zionism is one of the great hatreds of our time , that is no
doubt because it is the child of anti-Semitism, one of the great
hatreds of history. Nevertheless, it is neither logical nor practical ,
and it survives because it is not questioned.
If
there were freedom of
expression in Marxist societies, China could admit to its citizens that
it has bought arms from Israel. And if Islamic fundamentalism were
weaker, Arabs could dare to wish to live in peace with Israel. Fun–
damentalism, whether political or religious, places restrictions on
thought.
It
is therefore a denial of the essence of humanity .
Coming in
Partisan Review
• William Phillips on Kafka's Text
• Fiction by Doris Lessing
• Amos Oz on Nazi Power and Jewish Resistance
• Edith Kurzweil on the Holocaust and Primo Levi
• Vassily Aksyonov on
Glasnost
• Steven Marcus on Ernest Hemingway
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
• Raymond Aron:
A Memoir
• Stanislaw Baranczak:
On Polish History
• Elisabeth Frank:
Art Chronicle
• Ralf Dahrendorf:
Totalitarianism Revisited
• Elizabeth Young-Bruehl on Anna Freud
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