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23 NOvember 197

Editor, Los Angeles Times
Times Mirror Square
Los Angeles, California 908053

Dear Sir;

Time has prevented my getting to it sooner, but I cannot let

your editorial “The General's Appalling Performance" of 1) November pass
without comment,

I have no sympathy for General Brown who, whether right or wrong,
should know when to keep his mouth shut. However, your comment and the
cartoon facing it could well merit a "Q.E.D." stamp from the General since
you handle history loosely to support ea pro-Israel viewpoint.

United Stetes support for Isreel traces back to Roosevelt days
and pro-Zionist sentiments expressed for their impact on New York politics.
Until recent years domestic politics contimued to be the main governing
factor behin@ s shortesgighted national policy which assumed that the Arab
community would never get organized and constitute a threat to our security,
Only in the last very few years have we begun to try to get back to an
"even-handed" policy, for which I have noted no vigoreus support from
any pert of the “split™ American Jewish community. Domestic political

geals are still the mein motivation behind such ectivities as the current
push for U.5.5.R. exit permits for jews.

If indeed our Jewish community is "split", if is only.twer the
degree of suppert, not over whether or not we should support Isreel. Israel
owes its birth to Heganah(?) end other Jewish terrorist organizations
as violent es any PLO fection is today, It started the six dey war and
apperently hes no intention of ever returning most of the territory
seized from the Arebs et that time, It has made it quite clear thet property
seized from individual Palistinéeans will not be returned. I can recall

no statements deploring any of these coming from any part of the “split*®
Americen Jewish community,

i have a great deal of admiration for the people of Israel; for
what they have accomplished in nation building; for their highly effective
ermed forces; for their very realistic approach to foreign relations, But
I do not see how it can be stated that it is "morally imperative" that
the United States support Israel. Having gotten ourselves into a foreign
policy hole in the Middle East, we have no choice but to support Israel
until we can mend our fences unless we are willing to surrender this vital
stretegic area to the U.S.S.R., nothing more, strictly pregmatic,

Se pray that our efforts can establish true peece, and if that
seems not possible, then get ready to editorialize for or against sending
United States forces to fight in the Middle East for the population of

israel is too small to run a war against overwhelming numbers and run ea
nation at the same time,

And whet's this about anti-Semitism? Have you forgotten thet
Arabs are Semites too?

Joseph Lynn