American Jews: A Mideast Catalyst; The Stockholm dialogue with Arafat was a good thing.

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 27, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

I sometimes wonder why "self-hating" Jews bother. Enough hatred seems to come their way from others to save them that trouble.

This insult has not yet been hurled publicly at the five American Jews who went to Stockholm to help coax peaceful noises out of a Mr. Y. Arafat, whose last known address is Baghdad, Iraq. But there is a troubling harshness in the vituperation that is beginning to rain down on them.

"The Jews' Jesse Jackson," George F. Will writes in The Washington Post of group leader Rita Hauser (not a plaudit, I think). "Well meaning," says Ben Halpern in The Los Angeles Times, ...

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