College Memories
I greatly appreciated Marvin Schick’s nostalgic and insightful recollections of his student days at Brooklyn College in the 1950s (“Going to College,” front-page essay, March 13).
Although my own college days unfolded a decade later and in a different state, I daresay the atmosphere on American campuses was basically unchanged from what it had been in Brooklyn ten years earlier. (This was the early 1960s, before student demonstrations and riots and a radicalized professoriate completely upended higher education in the United States.)
I look forward to reading more of Dr. Schick’s memories of an age long gone but in many ways far superior to our own.
Burt Greenberg
(Via E-Mail)
Unwelcome Appointment
News of the appointment of Robert Malley as special assistant to the president and White House coordinator for Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Region, is most unwelcome (front page news story, March 13).
Malley has a long, troubling history as an anti-Israel activist and pro-Palestinian apologist. As your article noted, he was forced to resign as an adviser to the Obama 2008 presidential campaign because of his views. Most disturbing, after the breakdown of the 2000 Camp David talks, he notoriously was alone among the participants in denying Yasir Arafat’s culpability for their collapse.
To top that all off, the White House only last year assured Jewish leaders that he would have no part in dealing with Israel or the Palestinians. Just another broken promise from this administration.
Richard D. Wilkins
Syracuse, NY
Obama’s Character
After six years of the Obama presidency, we should realize that our chief executive is petty, vindictive, and arrogant, with an intense hatred for the present government of Israel.
His failure to support the 2009 uprising against the mullahs of Iran by democratically motivated Iranians showed his true character. That, coupled with his secret negotiations with the Iranians, has brought Israel to the realization that if the Iranian nuclear program is to be stopped, it will be up to Israel to do so.
Nelson Marans
Silver Spring, MD
Trust Iran? (I)
With Yukiyah Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, disputing the testimony by John Kerry that “Iran has been living up to its Joint Plan of Action commitments” and referring to Iran’s “undisclosed nuclear-related activities that include the development of a payload for a missile,” why would any world leaders continue to be so credulous as to believe Iran can be trusted to faithfully implement any agreement?
Fay Dicker
Lakewood, NJ
Trust Iran? (II)
In dealing with Iran, should we not consider the fact that it is the world’s leading supporter of terrorism? Should we not consider the fact that Iran is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American military personnel as a result of Iran’s aid to Iraqi insurgents? In addition, their IEDs (improvised explosive devices) permanently injured and disabled hundreds more.
How can we rely on the integrity of Iranian leaders?
Arthur Horn
East Windsor, NJ
Nazis, Then And Now
Re “Freedom Under Attack” by Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the UN (op-ed, March 6):
World War II was a “religious” war. The religious ideology was extreme German nationalism (fascism/Aryanism/Nazism). The “prophet” was Adolph Hitler. The Nazis were the terrorists of that day.
The allies belatedly fought and succeeded in stopping this plague but only after 60 million innocent souls were lost.
However, even though that battle was won, the war continues. The primary exporter of the plague today is the fascist theocracy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
I hope that the free world has learned from the horror of the early 20th century and will put a stop this regime before it’s too late. Unlike the German Nazis, these Nazis will have access to nuclear weapons if President Obama’s negotiated settlement prevails.