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br> -- Steven Bleiberg /p>

I literally gasped when I found John Corry advising his readers to refrain from holding the "liberalism" of the Israeli daily Ha'aretz against it, and citing its Op-Ed content as a reliable reference whose credibility, he would have the reader suppose, is buttressed by the fact that Arab terror bombs went off outside its offices.

Great Scot! I am a fluent speaker, reader and writer of Hebrew. I was a subscriber, for a while, of Ha'aretz (native Hebrew version!) during the years I lived in Tel Aviv and elsewhere in Israel.

To characterize Ha'aretz as "liberal" is, shall we say, a stunning, breathtaking, heart-stopping, blood-curdling understatement. "Flaming, off-the-charts, psychopath- delusional" is more like it. Mr. Corry might as well refer his readers to the Village Voice, or perhaps Pravda. The bias, the awful Leftist world-view built in to everything the paper prints would make even Brent Bozell gasp, and make Peter Jennings feel this small.

It could be that, like Mr. Arafat, Ha'aretz speaks in one voice to its vehemently left-wing Israeli audience, in Hebrew, and in another to its international, English-speaking audience. I wouldn't know -- I don't read the English edition.

p>If so, Mr. Corry (a man I have recognized for years as a solid, br> perceptive conservative) has, simply, been had. br> -- Paul Kotik br> Plantation, FL /p>

So the way the world is, per John Corry, that absent the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a political solution to the war in the Middle East could be reached. Even in light of the following:

1. 90% of the land which comprised the original Palestinian Mandate is what is now Jordan, which slaughtered thousands of Palestinians.

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