Islamic Jewry
To the Editor:
This is just a brief “fan letter” on Bernard Lewis’s fine article, “The Decline and Fall of Islamic Jewry” [June]. It serves a most instructive purpose: to remind everyone that past relationships between Arabs and Jews have scarcely been a bed of roses; hence that current PLO-style propaganda about binational statism (in Israel, of course) is as mythic as it is nefarious. In any event, Mr. Lewis’s article is not simply of historical importance but, no less, of policy relevance.
Irving Louis Horowitz
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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