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This year the Israel Festival has chosen a \"festive\" conclusion. At the insistence of maestro Daniel Barenboim, the festival wishes to debase us with a public performance, at one of the most prestigious venues in Israel's capital, of the first act of an opera by [Richard Wagner]. Prof. Robert Wistrich, an eminent authority on antisemitism, states in his book Antisemitism that \"Wagner's essentially racist vision of Jewry would have a profound influence on German and Austrian antisemites and above all on [Adolf Hitler] himself\" (Thames Mandarin, Page 56). There is little doubt that there were other antisemitic composers besides Wagner. Yet nobody could have the faintest objection to money being spent from public coffers for the performance of any of their works. The profound difference between these composers and Wagner was that their antisemitism was merely one of the many aspects of their lives and had no effect whatsoever on their surroundings or on future political developments. Wagner's antisemitism, on the other hand, shaped his whole life and profoundly affected 20th century history.

Sir, - Shimon Peres listened to Yasser Arafat's vicious lies at Davos.

Sir, - The prime minister's message of condolence to the people of Syria was sycophantic...

Sir, - It is, of course, abundantly clear that censorship with regard to the Tkuma television series has already taken place.

Sir, - Amongst the contrasting voices debating the question of the Golan - those of security, peace, water, biblical claims and return of captured territory - there is one that is jarringly absent. That voice is the voice of Meretz and other so-called liberals.

Sir, - The fumbling inadequacies of the government in dealing with the problem of Orient House, the composition and nature of the elected body, and the demands made of the PLO with regard to Hamas, have their roots in an earlier failure: that in the negotiation and drafting of an agreement with such fateful consequences.

At the beginning of this year and in connection with an international legal book I was editing for a foreign publisher, I asked the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv to recommend a lawyer in Egypt.