Letters to the Editor

August 29, 1998

Letters to the Editor
Campus Chronicle
Alcorn State University

Anyone who reads The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle on a regular basis will know that certain segments of the Jewish community look upon Monica Lewinsky, who is Jewish, as another Esther, the Biblical heroine who allegedly saved the Jewish people living in the Persian Empire from destruction.

The comparison was made because Monica succeeded in making the President of the United States - William Jefferson Clinton -absolutely ineffectual in implementing U.S. foreign policy with respect to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Palestinians have accepted the U.S. peace proposal designed to bring a measure of justice to the Palestinian people in the peace process. The Likud gang of Zionists running Israel under Netanyahu have no interest in dealing any justice to the Palestinians. They have successfully thumbed their noses at the American peace plan.

The Netanyahu gang has succeeded in defying the Clinton administration because the President has been immobilized quite effectively courtesy of Monica Lewinsky's availability for sexual liaisons with him. The nearly $4 billion to Israel-a First World country -continue to flow from the U.S. treasury without any diminution.

President Clinton, behaving as a thoughtless, indiscrete self-indulgent high school adolescent, has made it impossible for him to make ANY policy initiative that would carry any moral authority behind it-the retaliatory strikes against Osama bin Laden to the contrary notwithstanding.

Thus Monica Lewinsky, with the aid of Ken Starr, and Clinton'sown stupidity have made it imperative for Democrats, and other Americans who care about their country, to insist upon President Clinton's immediate resignation.

The U.S. does not need a "wounded" and "bleeding" president which can only bring joy to Republicans and other reactionaries.

Robert E. Nordlander
Menasha, WI.

We are pleased to see the football results on the ASU Website and the state and regional newspapers. We are very concerned that the results of the Cross Country and Volleyball scores are not listed on the ASU Website ( this data can be input directly from the university staff) or the state and regional newspapers. We have quality athletes working hard to represent our proud university. The results were not listed on the national college black web network. We strongly request that your office correct this injustice and treat all athletic sports program fairly inorder that these young people will feel that their work has not gone unoticed. Please let me know what course of action you plan to correct this problem. Thank you for your cooperation.

Wilbert Jones

September 8, 1998

Editor
Letters to the Editor
Campus Chronicle
Alcorn State University

While lip-service to the desire for peace on the part of the people of British-occupied Ireland was made by Prime Minister Blair and President Clinton, it should not be forgotten that peace prevailed in the northern six counties in 1968, a peace that lacked one important element - justice.

There was no IRA in 1968. Then Catholics decided to fight for an end to discrimination in housing, employment and voting. They were met with official violence culminating in the Bloody Sunday massacre of January 30, 1972 in which a British parachute regiment murdered fourteen peaceful demonstrators in Derry. While this was going on the approximately 4,000 Orange trium- phalist parades were proceeding as scheduled to inform Catholics of their "inferiority."

How sad that we heard nothing about the need to put an end to the climate of bigotry and hatred that fuels Unionist discrimination. The kind of injustice made possible by the British presence in Ireland that has been the real cause of the violence that has persisted for the last thirty years.

Recent draconian measures to fight terrorism are doomed to failure. As President Clinton said, "Difficult, sometimes wrenching decisions lie ahead but they must be made."

One of those decisions must be the eventual withdrawal of British sovereignty from the northern six counties of Ireland. Then, and only then will peace have a chance, for then there will be peace with justice.

William Gartland
Rio, WI.

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