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Unsolicited manuscripts cannot bernreturned unless accompanied by a self-addressedrnstamped envelope.rnChroniclesrnVol.21, N a l January 1997rnPrinted in the 1,’iiited States of AmtncarnPOLEMICS & EXCHANGESrnOn Self-HatredrnI have generally found mvself agreeingrnwith Jacob Neusner in his articles forrnChronicles. I must, however, questionrnhis interpretation (“Haters and Self-rnHaters,” October 1996) of the “Anti-rnJewists” excoriated by Edward Alexanderrnin The Jewish Wars: Reflections by One ofrnthe Belligerents. The phenomenon of arnpeople “so emotionally and mentallyrntwisted” as to despise their own brethrenrnand hold their defenders to a higherrnstandard of behavior than their enemiesrnis commonplace in the West. The historyrnof conflicts between Westerners andrnthe Third World since 1945 providesrnmany examples of this pathology. If anything,rnIsrael has suffered less than havernother Western states. Jewish self-hatredrnis only a minor variant of the phenomenonrnof white self-hatred.rnLet us merely compare the horror expressedrnby Western and Israeli liberalsrnover the Lod Airport massacre and thernvarious hijackings with the absence ofrnany response (save joy) over the downingrnof two Rhodesian Viscount airliners byrnNkomo’s guerrillas. The threat by Arafatrnand others to “drive the Jews into thernsea” has been rightly denounced even byrn”self-haters” such as Michael Lerner,rnHowever, the 1.3 million Europeanrncolonists in Algeria, people who actuallyrnsuffered the fate threatened for the Jews,rnhave received little pity, e’cn from thernright, in France or anywhere else. Asrnlonesco wrote: “They never show us howrnthe Algerians put out the eyes of Frenchrnchildren, that’s not done”; rather Frenchrnplaywrights invited their countrymen torncondemn the sins of the White Man.rnThe examples arc endless: one Somalirnis killed and the entire Canadian AirbornernRegiment is disbanded. Evenrnagainst white enemies Western armiesrnare held to a ridiculously unwarlike standard.rnOn “Bloody Sunday,” 12 IrishrnCatholics (all adult males) were killed byrnBritish paras; the British government wasrnthrown into panic and the army was excoriatedrnby the media. The Israeli establishmentrnwas rather more thick-skinnedrnin its response to civilian casualties in thernIntifada.rnRecently, Mr. David Geffen, the personificationrnof both the Jewish left andrnthe American media elite, hosted a dinnerrnin honor of General Ariel Sharon.rnCan one imagine a similar fete for GeneralrnWestmoreland (let alone GeneralsrnChalle or Salan) from such a source? Indeed,rnto see the comparatively benignrnview of Israel held by the Western intelligentsiarnwe need only recall the responsernof the mainstream media to the invasionrnof Israel in 1973 and their rather lessrnmelodramatic treatment of the invasionrnof South Vietnam in 1975.rnIt may be in particularly poor taste torncompare Jews with the Nazis. However,rnone iTiight wish that American, British,rnFrench, Rhodesian, and South Africanrnsoldiers who actually fought the Nazisrnwould be spared the comparison as well.rnOf course, this has not been the case.rnProfessor Neusner is mistaking anrnepiphenomenon of Western self-hatredrnfor a unique Jewish malady. If Jewishrncommunities suffered from a selfloathingrncomparable to that of France inrnthe 1960’s or white America today, therernwould be no Jewish state. Both ProfessorrnNeusner and Professor Alexander shouldrncontemplate this before attacking PatrnBuchanan. Mr. Buchanan has Americanrnwars to fight before he can concern himselfrnwith Jewish ones. However, a goodrnfirst step for Zionists seeking the sympathyrnof American paleoconservativesrnwould be to recognize a commonality ofrninterests. A white American living in thernSouthwest today is as much under siegernas a Jewish settler on the West Bank. IfrnAmerican supporters of Israel acknowledgedrnthis fact, I’m sure they would findrnthe attitude of Mr. Buchanan and hisrnsupporters greatly changed in their favor.rn—Steven SchwamenfeldrnDundee, NYrnOn Gay Teen SuicidernPhilip Jenkins writes in his October articlern(“One in Ten: A Gay Mythology”):rn”The construction of the ‘epidemic’ is arndamning indictment of the use of socialrnscience in political debate, and the uncriticalrnway in which tendentious statisticsrnare accepted as fact. Briefly, gay teenrnsuicide is an outright myth.” A few sentencesrnlater, Mr. Jenkins speaks of “arn4/CHRONlCLESrnrnrn