Typical U.S.
As the Israeli philharmonic
entertained audiences in I.os
Angeles late in July, that coun
try's military rained terror on
one-half million south Lebanese
civilians, turning them into
refugees.
Ironically, on July 15. the U.S.
House of Representatives cut U.S.
funds for emergency refugee
relief from $49 million to $19
million, recommending that most
of the difference be used to help
Israel settle Jewish immigrants
from the former Soviet Union.
This pro-Israeli shift of money,
typical of the U.S. Congress,
comes at a time when the num
ber of Soviet emigres to Israel has
dramatically declined. The allo
cation of funds to Israel has come
at a time when the country has
acknowledged that it may not
need the $10 billion in loan guar
antees it lobbied for two years.
It should bo noted that every
day American taxpayers send $14
million to the Jewish state.
American friends of Israel are
not only in the U.S. Congress, but
in the administration of President
Bill Clinton. The president's chief
Middle East strategist is Martin
Indyk. formerly a lobbyist for
Israel.
While Israeli representation in
American culture is all-encom
passing. the Islamic Middle East
is ignored even at schools such
as the University. No department,
not even the University's inter
national studies program, offers
courses on the Middle East.
Consequently, students may
conclude their baccalaureate
studies without ever knowing
anything about one of the most
significant regions of our world.
The biased policies of the U.S.
government toward Israel since
its creation in 1948 has only
brought instability for that coun
try and disdain for the United
States’ practices in the Middle
East.
M. Reza Behnam
Eugene
S.O.S.
Our poverty and my despera
tion to leave this leper s island
some dav led me to write to you
and lx*g you to please publish this
letter because I’m longing to find
a kind someone from among your
subscribers who may pity me and
help me.
I come from a poor family of
five children. My parents are both
children of lepers who were
raised up on this miserable place.
They were not ahle to attain for
mal education. My father has no
stable job to support us. and my
mother launders for other people
to help my father earn for a liv
ing. We are so poor that my par
ents could not even afford to pro
vide us with enough food to eat
The only consolation that I
have to be born here is the free
education that I enjoy from ele
mentary up to high school that is
provided by our government for
the indigent children of this
colony. My two elder sisters have
quit schooling because they. too.
need to work to help with our
family income. But I value edu
cation so much that I choose to
continue my studies despite the
hardships that 1 encounter, like
going to school with an empty
stomach and with no decent
school clothes to wear.
I am in my final year in high
school and will be graduating in
march next year, and 1 desper
ately wish to be able to contin
ue from college. 1 wish so muc h
to pursue a four-year course in
architecture in one of the uni
versities in Manila, and I need a
sponsor to help me fulfill my
dream
I beg you with all of my heart,
please print this tetter in your
newspaper so that 1 will have a
chancxi to find someone who may
be so kind and generous to edu
cate me. I will forever be so grate
ful to him or her, I promise.
Ctrl Jennllyn Morales
Culion Leper Colony
c/o P.0. Box 2203
10M Manila
Philippines
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