Nicholas D. Kristof’s column “A different way to think about the Middle East: Right vs. right” (Oct. 19, Opinion) sensibly requires recognition of the rights of each Israelis and Palestinians to stay in peace and safety.
I’m struck, although, by the headline. “Between Proper and Proper” is the title of a ebook by A. B. Yehoshua, one among Israel’s most distinguished public intellectuals, and it appeared in English in 1981. It’s a pity that, as Kristof notes, a “Manichaean paradigm of fine versus evil” has now change into so pervasive. So a few years after Yehoshua wrote about proper and proper, would that this idea have been the prevailing and never a “totally different” method to consider the Center East.
Naomi Sokoloff, Seattle
