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Letters to the Editor

David Goshen, Pesach Rogoway, Israel Pickholtz, Milton H. Polin, Shabtai Shatsky, Gilbert Simons, Paul Luskin, Miriam L. Gavarin, I. Kemp, Prof. Charles W. Arnade, Elisha Svetitsky, S. Spiegler, Susan Taragin

2003

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Sir, - The French foreign minister asked Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom whether Israel would be prepared to take in a symbolic number of, say, 40,000 Palestinian refugees (\"De Villepin lauds cabinet decision,\" May 26). Will he also ask Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas whether the road map's Palestinian state would be prepared to allow a symbolic number of, say, 40,000 Jewish settlers to remain within its boundaries? Sir, - In the road map to peace, there must be provision for the Jews of the world to come to the Temple Mount for prayer and reflection, regardless of Islamic aspirations. As the single most important symbol of the Jewish homeland and notwithstanding the minor (by comparison) historical or cultural sites, the Temple Mount stands out as the central place of Jewish pilgrimage and worship. Sir, - Greer Fay Cashman's empathy with those who would change the \"Hatikva\" to accommodate Israel's Arab minority is simply brilliant (Grapevine, May 14). How can the Jewish people expect Arabs to sympathize with the \"hope of 2,000 years?\" We should also have two Remembrance Days for fallen soldiers - one day for Jews, who will mourn soldiers killed by Arabs, and one day for Arabs to mourn their relatives who died fighting the Jews.

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