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to Tany, with loveWednesday 31 Jul 2002
author: Fred Lapides
Dear Prof. Reinhart: as by now you know, 7 people were blown to death in the Cafeteria at Hebrew University today (7/31). Ironically, Hebrew U had many professors who advocated what can in reductionist terms be call Left of Center positions, the sort of thing I believe you find yourself in.
I know your being at an Israeli University is a pleasant way ato spend some time, away from your slot in Holland (I think it is), where you have been a student of--N. Chomsky.
What has just happened then seems to me is so antithetical to all that professors espouse that I am sure many that were sympathetic to the Arab cause will now reconsider their positions because they have lost some of their very own bright students to the madness of terrorism.
Alas, the Jews in Israel tend to take the high moral road and will not give back that which it receives but were I in charge I would close down Arab colleges in the West Bank for one straight year....an eye for an eye? No. Hardly. The loss of thse young students can not be replaced by a closed building.
Enjoy your stay in the Holy Land, and by all means use the freedoms of a democracy to say wicked things about your host country.