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June 1994, Page 3 Letters to the Editor Letters to the editor are selected and edited on the basis of relevance, accuracy, taste and available space. 7he editors do not have facilities to respond to individual letters, or to clear in advance published letters, as edited, with the writers.
Bobby Inman, Strobe TalbottMy initial reaction to your Feb./March article on Bobby Inman's nomination as secretary of defense and his subsequent withdrawal from consideration for that post was that you were reading too much into events. However, after watching the congressional hearings and Senate floor debate on Strobe Talbott's confirmation as deputy secretary of state, one has to wonder. Strobe, as a result of some illuminating comments about the Middle East during his career as a journalist, managed to get a few of his lights knocked out as he ran the pro-Israel gauntlet in Congress. A number of speakers spent an inordinate amount of time attacking Mr. Talbott for the blasphemy of noticing the territorial ambitions of the Likud and Prime Minister Shamir with respect to lands occupied in 1967 and for questioning Israel's value as a strategic asset. In the end Mr. Talbott, even after eating a few words and pledging his full fidelity to our friend and ally in the Middle East, found an unusually high number of senators (3 1) opposed to his nomination. Mr. Talbott's past views on the Soviet Union were factors in the opposition, and no doubt much of the debate was a game meant to appease small constituencies on the right who have steadfastly opposed the peace process. Still, it served as a chilling reminder of the political peril of ever criticizing Israel and illustrated perfectly why it has been next to impossible to get open and honest discussion of Middle East issues by our politicians. Bobby Inman may indeed have been wise to avoid the process. Had he gone through with it, and with his integrity and stubbornness, he might not have played along with attendant consequences to his nomination. Mr. Inman appeared headed for a hassle he didn't deserve for a job he didn't want. A. Douglas Reeves, Alexandria, VA
Strobe Talbott and GalileoPoor Strobe Talbott. He's our Galileo. Nominated by Clinton to be deputy secretary of state, he was called on the carpet by The Lobby in Congress because, 10 years ago, when the Israelis invaded Lebanon and slaughtered tens of thousands of innocents while trying to capture Yasser Arafat, Talbott, outraged, wrote that Israel was "an outright liability to American security interests. " He also warned that American Jews, in their ability to dictate Middle East policy by buying politicians and controlling the media, had power far beyond their numbers. Poor Talbott. Like Galileo before his inquisitors, he was forced to recant in public. If he wanted the job to which he was appointed, he had to "backpedal," according to The New York Times, and downright "renounce," his earlier views. He had to swear fealty to The Lobby: Yassuh, massa! When the Inquisitors forced Galileo to recant his claim that the earth moved around the sun, and not vice versa, as the Church believed, he was heard to mutter under his breath, "It moves!" Wonder what Strobe Talbott muttered under his. Dale Walker, Hoboken, NJ
Senator Warner on IsraelThe enclosed letter was written to me by Senator John Warner in reply to my complaint about excessive amounts of aid we give to Israel. I found the third paragraph particularly stunning since it appears to me that our beneficence is producing exactly the opposite effect from the positive one he describes. Your magazine is wonderful, I look forward to every issue. Lucy S. Smith, Dinwiddie, VA Senator Warner's letter to you is reprinted in this issue's "Other People's Mail" on page 33.
An Arab View on U.S. PolicyI am a longtime supporter of the Washington Report and want to express again my continuous appreciation for your efforts to enlighten the American people regarding the true facts about Israeli Palestinian issues. I read this article by Khaled AlMaeena, former editor of the Arab News, a straight to the point expression of how we in this part of the worlds feel. Perhaps you could reprint it in the Washington Report. I spoke with Mr. AlMaeena yesterday and told him I was forwarding it to youyou may already have had it brought to your attention. Else Fenner Bogary, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Khaled Maeena's column is reprinted in "Other Voices " on page 108.
Waiting For the IRSI am enclosing a response from the Internal Revenue Service to my query about the "Coalition for Jewish Concerns AMCHA, which published a fullpage advertisement in the Nov. 30, 1993 New York Times signed by 1,000 rabbis urging a pardon for convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard. I cannot accept that the public has no right to know anything about tax exempt organizations and I will follow up with them in some manner. Arthur Lowrie, Lutz, FL The letter from the IRS is printed in this issue's "Other People's Mail" on page 35.
Feel Free to ReprintI enclose an opinion piece of mine that was printed in the Milwaukee Journal on March 6. Feel free to reprint it or use it in any way that might be helpful. I wish to repeat what I've said before about the Washington Report. It is a valuable and virtually unique resource for information on Middle East issues. The check I sent you in January also expresses my hope that you will continue in economic good health. Robert B. Ashmore, Mequon, WI Your article is reprinted in "Other Voices " on page 110.
More Iran News, PleaseEndeavor on! Enclosed is my third year's subscription. My only wish is that there be more reporting of news relating to Iran, and not just the odd inflammatory news flash. There have been too many years of enmity between the U.S. and Iran! Where is the basic humanity? I am sure a political rapprochement between Washington and Tehran is remote. If only the citizenry of nations could transcend the walls of distrust governments erect. This is the divide your publication strives to fill. This is where you shine. There are many Iranians in this country. Through providence, I have come to know them, and love them. I am sad to note that I haven't a memory of a time when there was a spirit of friendship between the two nations. This March 21 marked the start of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, the time for hope and renewal. I hope one day that renewal will enter into the minds of politicians here in the U.S. and Iran. Khoda Hafez! John D. Stitch, Slidell, LA We have many Iranian readers and, sometimes, critics. We also have had and still have staff members with Iranian spouses. So, you can be sure, we share your wishes for better times in a relationship that, on the government-to-government level, has been both too close (in the shah's time) and too distant (at present) for comfort, but which, on a person-to-person level, can never be close enough.
Better Iran News, PleaseAs a frequent reader, I have regularly noticed your desire to provide the American public with balanced, accurate information regarding Middle East affairs. Overall, you have been very supportive of Islam and justice in the Middle East. However, when it comes to Iran, I consistently see double standards in how you represent Iran and its Islamic government. My major complaint is regarding the work entitled "A Fourth Muslim Woman Assumes Command" (Feb./March 1994). Was this an article to present the facts or a propaganda advertisement to support the Marxist/Communist movement that has found a limelight in Iran? Don't get me wrong, I fully support the rights of a female Muslim to rule an Islamic state, but a Muslim cannot be a Communist just as a Muslim cannot be a Marxist. What do you think the National Council of Resistance, or the People's Mojahedin is? If you don't know, then maybe you should research what happened for 14 years in Afghanistan in the name of the People's Party and the Flag Party. What makes you think that the Islamic government of Iran "seized" power? Khomeini's regime was put in by popular demand or as we say in America through free and democratic elections. Why are you so intent on supporting Ms. Rajavi and her support of the destruction of the present regime? With Algeria's free, democratic elections an Islamic majority was voted in. Instantly, the Western governments cried foul and claimed the elections were improperly done. Is this what you all are supporting to happen in Iran? You never discussed why Ms. Rajavi was in refugee status. History tells us, though, that it was for her treasonous acts during the Iran-Iraq war. Think about it why would the resistance group's National Liberation Army be based in Iraq? In the U.S. we punish treason during war times with capital punishment. She's lucky to be in refugee status. She wants there to be "a spirit of mutual understanding, forgiveness, and national unity" how hypocritical of her to expect the Muslim people of Iran to forgive her for helping impose a war on Iran from her headquarters in Iraq. Ms. Elizabeth Kunkel, Albuquerque, NM We hold no special brief for any particular opposition group in Iran. If there is another one with significant following, we'd be happy to write about its leaders too. We've concluded, however, that no moderate leaders remain within Iran. They are all in the cemeteries. Outside Iran, the Mojahedin seem to be the only group with even a semblance of organization. As for your contention that the Khomeini regime came to power democratically, or that literally killing all political opponents is Islamic, we'd like to hear more on that from some of our Iranian readers. We have absolutely no editorial axes to grind. We find the present Iranian government reprehensible, and the U. S. policy of not dealing either with it or with opposition groups ridiculous. Why do we care at all? Because it is the fear of an unpredictable Iran, eventually in defacto alliance with an unpredictable Israel, as occurred during the Iraq-Iran war (remember Irangate?) that fuels the arms race that eventually can impoverish and destabilize much of the Middle East.
Activism in New MexicoThe New Mexico Chapter 63 of Veterans for Peace purchased space in a principal local daily, the Albuquerque Journal, for an ad reproducing the AET bumper sticker pictured above to appear before the April 15 income tax deadline to catch taxpayers while they are most concerned. I'm reporting separately on the substantial support received from both local and national offices of Veterans for Peace. In addition, the local chapter recently purchased space to reprint twice in the Daily Lobo, the UNM campus daily, Ella Bancroft's article on U.S. aid to Israel (p. 33, January Washington Report). The enclosed cartoon by John Trever, a nationally syndicated cartoonist for the Albuquerque Journal, appeared in the Journal's March 3 edition. You may be interested in the enclosed material concerning a March 5 memorial observance for Palestinian victims of the Hebron massacre organized by the New Mexico chapter of the ADC. Attendance equaled that at an observance held separately by the Albuquerque Jewish community several days earlier. George E. Luecker, Albuquerque, NM Congratulations to all who had roles in the New Mexico activities you describe. The Trever cartoon, along with your letter to the Albuquerque Journal, are printed in "Other People's Mail " on page 34 of this issue. Readers will be interested to know that the cartoonist spent some of his youth in the Middle East when his father, a noted scholar, was working with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
A Reader Since 1987I subscribed to your esteemed journal in 1987 through the advice of a friend. Since then, I have been a constant subscriber, reading your journal from cover to cover, waiting impatiently for the arrival of the next issue. I cannot find better words to describe your achievements in telling the American public the truth about the Middle East than those in your own Nov. 15, 1993 letters to subscribers. "For two years everyone waited for disaster to befall an informed publication that defied U. S. media taboos by audaciously debunking what Dr. Alfred Lilienthal has called Middle East `mythinformation."' Hence my congratulations to you and all of the staff of the Washington Report for your extraordinary accomplishments. Meanwhile, I shall appreciate receiving a copy of the book A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute if available, together with your bill. Also please put my name on your mailing list as a prospective recipient of your first edition of "Seeing the Light. " The attached check is sent to cover the cost of subscriptions to the magazine to the attached list of recipients. The remainder of the check is to be considered as a donation to your journal. M.F. AlHusseini, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia We deeply appreciate your donation, which would cover many more subscriptions than those you requested.
Letter From an AngelHow great minds run along the same path! Just as I was about to write you this note, your "Report to Our Stockholders" arrived. I strongly feel that we need to continue our mission, and your three principal goals for 1994 set the tone and give us the direction to do so. Enclosed is a list of names and addresses for opinion molders together with my donation to join your Choir of Angels. Also enclosed is an article from the Boston Globe, dated Nov. 23, 1993, regarding the recently found diaries of a Jewish militia commander in 1948, which is extremely informative. Judith Howard, Alexandria, VA You sent us a list of 14 media recipients, but your generous donation will cover 40 opinion molder subscriptions. Every year we send a circular to 22,000 public and school libraries in the U. S. asking them to indicate which books from our library donation packages they would put into circulation and whether they would like a donated subscription to the Washington Report. We will use your gift to pay for 26 subscriptions for some of the libraries that have asked for them.
A Cry in the WildernessI would like to donate a gift subscription to the library listed on the enclosed donation form. The balance of my check is to be used in any way you see fit. My intent and purpose is to support and promote your organization and publication. When I was a boy I read the newspaper accounts of events taking place in Palestine and was angry and frustrated for I could only tell others about it. They, it seemed, were not interested. I felt like a voice crying in the wilderness. Now, thanks to you, I no longer feel alone. People are waking up to the terrible human rights abuses inflicted on a brave but gentle people by a powerful, arrogant, militaristic Israeli government. There are now many publications that tell the true story of Palestine and more are coming out. In his recent book on the Middle East, British investigative author David Yallop describes on pages 268308 his visit to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and the deplorable conditions he found there. This book is Tracking the Jackal. Now I am optimistic about the future. Meanwhile I will continue to work for The Cause. Robert E. Bigger staff, East Alton, IL Thanks for your generosity. Tracking the Jackal is available to Washington Report readers through the AET Book Club.
Bravo to Charley ReeseA lot of news is probably coming at you from all sides, so what I am sending today will be just "another item" for you to use or not, as you see fit. Charley Reese of the Orlando Sentinel (syndicated in various papers) wrote an editorial I found compelling. I send it to you together with the letter to the editor which I sent in the following day; and which, needless to say, was not published. At least someone must have read it to reject it! Dr. Edna Homa Hunt, Winter Park, FL It's great to produce a magazine whose readers do much of the writing, collect the reference material, and even send us other people's letters as potential subscribers and for our possible use. Thanks to you and the many other readers who have been doing this so faithfully for so long. As for Charley Reese's marvelously informed column on the U.S. and the Israel-Palestine problem, we can't reprint them anymore because his syndicate just doubled the price. We bet we know why.
You Made My DayI received a wonderful and unexpected surprise not too long ago while reading the Jan. '94 issue of your magazine. Reading page by page, article by article, I started the one on page 57. The lead sentence spoke sentiments very much like my own. Surprise! It was my contribution to "Seeing the Light. " Well, it made my day and quite a few in addition. In September 1992 I attended the first conference on U.S.-Arab relations at V.M.I. in Lexington, VA. Your circulation department sent me 25 copies of a recent issue of the Washington Report, which I distributed to the participants. I also sent a summary of the event which you included in your letters from readers. Enclosed is a descriptive flyer for this year's conference and a contribution to your work. William Lord, Pittsburgh, PA Your letter, like several above, shows how this magazine really is the product of its readers, who also provide most of the advertising, and many of the new subscriptions by circulating sample copies, as you did, to people who are concerned about the Middle East, or should be.
Korean and Israeli NukesYour Feb./March issue is great! It brings so much truth that the great majority of the U. S. electronic and print media are too cowardly to publish. I am attaching a copy of a letter I sent to the Austin American Statesman comparing current U. S. concerns with China and North Korea with what should be similar concerns with Israel. The letter was published, but with some editing that made it a little confusing and reduced its impact. I have bracketed the omitted parts. Incidentally, I also wrote President Clinton (and Ms. Reno) regarding the Pollard case. I received the same form letter signed by the president that reader Robert Cassinelli received. Ms. Reno did not reply. William V. Kelly, Austin, TX Your letter is reprinted in "Other People's Mail " on page 36.
A Pennsylvania VoterWhile reading your "Special Report Senate Voting Record for 1993, " I was impressed at the high percentage of each senator for "percent pro-AIPAC, " with the exception of Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Being from Pennsylvania, I see that both Wofford and Specter are 83 percent pro-AIPAC. Other than writing letters to let them know I will not vote for them, what else can I do to stop my money from going to AIPAC? I would be interested in seeing you write more about this in upcoming issues of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Pamela C. Bierce, RN, Philadelphia, PA Since you wrote your letter, author Don Neff covered in our April/May 1994 issue Senator Byrd's unprecedented April 1992 speech on the Senate floor discussing the vast amount of U. S. taxpayer resources poured into Israel by Congress without any discernible effect except to make Israel ever more dependent upon the United States. One way to help the cause of candor in Congress about Israel is to contribute to and vote for challengers to congressional incumbents who have accepted money from pro-Israel PACs, as listed on pages 3739 of the April/May issue of the Washington Report.
It's Genocide, Stupid!Re: Euphemism Trivializes Armenians' Tragic Past. Your January 1994 response to the letter to the editor titled "Don't Question the Genocide" missed the writer's point. The 1948 U.N. Convention defines genocide as any one of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such: (a) Killing members of the group. (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. What Michael Dunn calls "Deportations" would have qualified as genocide even if only one of the above five conditions had been met. Yet the events, as documented by hundreds of reliable and impartial eyewitness accounts, meet all five. That is why all serious scholarship on the subject of genocide refers to the Armenian case along with the Holocaust as a classical case of genocide. The fact that "Turks speak so passionately of Turkish victims" is beside the point. Equating the number of Turkish combatants killed in battle (in a war launched by their own leadership) with the unarmed Armenian population slaughtered by the agents of the very government duty bound to protect them subverts the meaning of the word genocide. As to your suggestion that "those who don't forget the past are doomed to repeat it, " kindly note that, three generations after the tragic events in question, the process of healing has yet to begin for the Armenians. For it to begin, the culprit statelike post Nazi Germany in the case of the Holocaust has to come to terms with its ugly past and political commentators have to stop trivializing a people's tragic past with euphemisms like "deportation." For the sake of historical truth and journalistic integrity, let's call a spade a spade. Vartkes S. Dolabjian, Quebec, Canada
A Good Word for IsraelI am tired of having to defend my religious homeland's existence to a bunch of spoiled, naive American Arabists who wouldn't know what's going on in the Middle East if it sat on top of their trendy kefflyah. I have been to the region. Although I don't proclaim to know everything about the Middle East I do know it's a dangerous place with dangerous people who play with a very different set of rules. I know it's your policy to indoctrinate unknowledgeable Americans about the Palestinian situation (like it's the only thing going on in the Middle East) but maybe you can possibly one day show a positive Israeli article. I know this might be asking a lot but try it. We are not all oppressors and we have just as much right to be there as the Palestinians. Shalom. Eretz Yisroyl Chai!!!! The Lion of Zion So if you're a lion, why did your lengthy and frequently obscene letter, of which the above is only the expurgated final paragraph, come in an envelope postmarked Northern Virginia but unsigned?
Another Unsigned LetterI would love to speak out on Middle East issues but cannot because of my employment with a Fortune 200 corporation. I cannot express opinions at work; nor can I sign letters to editors. But I do enjoy reading your publication which brings some balance into all of that pro-Israel reporting in the so-called mainstream press. I would like to write the editor of my local newspaper whose publisher is so pro-Israel and ask what if the killing of Arab worshippers at Hebron had been a reverse situation? What if an Arab extremist had killed 29 Jews at the Wailing Wall? The U. S. media would have gone crazy. There would have been latenight Ted Koppel and the other two networks with specials on "the tragedy" or "Holocaust." There would have been lots of TV pictures of burial ceremonies, and the grief of the Israeli people would have been widely shared for American viewers. No doubt Vice President Gore would have been dispatched to Israel to represent the American people in this time of great mourning. There would have been denunciations by members of the House and Senate and some would have worn black armbands. It would have been page one news for many days with follow-up stories. Some graduate student in journalism needs to do a master's thesis on the evolution of this story. When the news broke that Israeli soldiers might have been involved in the massacre, one of the major daily newspapers in Ohio ran that on page 20A. It would be interesting to see the treatment of the story on a national basis. Best of all, someone needs to note how soon the story disappeared and became a "nonstory" or not relevant any longer. Prediction: The massacre at Hebron will end up like the sinking of the USS Liberty as far as the media are concerned: It never happened! A Subscriber, Ohio
Help NeededI am writing to request the help of your readers in a pressing humanitarian matter. In March 1991, immediately after Iraqi troops withdrew from Kuwait, a Kuwaiti man entered the home of Ismail Farhat, a Lebanese civil servant resident in Kuwait for almost 30 years, and committed a horrible crime. Ismail Farhat and his youngest son, Ossama, were shot and killed. His daughter Naimat was raped, shot in the head, and left for dead. Miraculously, Naimat survived and came to the United States, where she has been cared for by her brother Naim in Santa Cruz, California. After this brutal assault on his family, Naim Farhat set out on a personal quest for justice. For the past three years, he has campaigned and struggled, see those responsible for this attack convicted and punished. Thanks largely to Naim's extraordinary personal commitment, in December 1993 a former Kuwaiti police officer was convicted of murder and attempted murder of members of the Farhat family. This to date is the only conviction brought against a Kuwaiti national for the many crimes and human rights abuses suffered by nonKuwaiti Arabs in Kuwait in the months after the Iraqi withdrawal. However, the case is far from over. The defense has lodged an appeal against the conviction. Meanwhile, Naim. is pursuing his belief, backed up by the research of numerous independent human rights organizations, that others were involved in the attack and should also be brought to justice. Naim is also seeking compensation from the Kuwaiti authorities for the injuries suffered by his family in Kuwait, so far without success. The attention which Naim Farhat has generated for his family's case has helped to keep alive the issue of gross violations of human rights suffered by hundreds of non-Kuwaiti Arabs in the months after Iraqi withdrawal. The small victory he has won in the Kuwaiti courts gives hope to hundreds of others who are seeking justice for the abuses they and their families suffered. In pursuing justice for his family, Nairn Farhat has spent tens of thousands of dollars of his own money. Although numerous medical professionals donated their time to treat Naimat for her horrific injuries, he has accumulated medical bills. On April 8, 1994 he received a final demand for payment of $18,249.95 to Mills Peninsula Hospitals Corporation. If he does not pay, he risks losing his house. Without funds, he cannot continue his campaign for justice. Naim, Farhat has made a unique contribution to the cause of human rights for some of the forgotten victims of the Gulf war. He has stood courageously for the principle that those who commit egregious human rights violations must be held accountable for their crimes. I am asking your readers to come to the assistance of Naim, Farhat and his family, Any and all contributions will be put to good use by Nairn as he continues his campaign for justice for his sister, his family and victims of the Gulf war. Neil Hicks, Coordinator, Middle East and North Africa Program, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 330 Seventh Ave., 10th floor, New York, NY 10001 Washington Report readers know Naim Farhat well as a result of his campaign for justice (seep. 94, Sept./Oct. 1993 issue). The courage he and his permanently disabled sister exhibited in returning to Kuwait and, supported by then U. S. Ambassador to Kuwait Edward (Skip) Gnehm, identifying her Kuwaiti policeman attacker in open court, has advanced the cause of justice for all of the victims. Mr. Farhat and his American-born wife and daughter now are paying a personal price for their compassion and courage. They are in danger of losing their home as they wait for indemnities which may never come from the government of Kuwait for the medical expenses incurred in the U. S. for Naimat Farhat's treatment. Readers are invited to send contributions to Naim Farhat, c/o the Lawyer's Committee address above, or send them directly to Naim Farhat, 214 Mountain View Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062 or telephone him at (408) 423 0209.
Bias and MoralityWilliam Safire's unabashed prejudice against the Palestinians and Arabs has become part of his image. However, I could hardly believe my eyes when I read his oped essay in The New York Times on Thursday, April 7, 1994. This was an attack on the government of Singapore for violating Webster's definition of torture as "the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure. " He considered the six lashes against an American teenager, pursuant to a court sentence, an act of savagery and a violation of the U. N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which declares that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment. " I loved Mr. Safire's conclusion that "If anything in life is morally wrong, torture is morally wrong. " My only question to Mr. Safire is why has he withheld such condemnation in connection with the documented torture by Israel of thousands of Palestinians including young men and women? Such torture (sometimes resulting in death) was not even part of a court punishment, but was inflicted in gruesome investigations by the police, by the Shin Bet and the Mossad to extract confessions. Early in the intifada didn't Rabin himself order the breaking of bones of demonstrating young men? Where has Mr. Safire left his credibility on the question of torture? Shukri Salameh, Jacksonville, FL The same place he left his credibility on anything to do with Israel, or those whom he perceives to be critics of Israel, like George Bush. During the 1992 election year "Republican " Safire attacked the Bush administration over the issue of "Iraqgate " with 20 separate columns based upon rumor and innuendo, none of which turned out to be true, according to an article by Kenneth Juster in the Spring 1994 issue of Foreign Policy. Safire is so allconsumed by his apologetics for Israel that he apparently never recognized how hypocritical his denunciations of state-sponsored torture in Singapore sounded to regular readers of his columns on Israel, where torture (euphemistically described as "mild physical coercion ") is sanctioned by law and is used in all arrests of Palestinians in the occupied territories. They are beaten when they are arrested, routinely and severely beaten while being transported to the police station, and then systematically tortured to elicit false confessions which then serve as the excuse for their incarceration.
How Can I Help Bosnia?I should have written you months ago asking for information about how I can get involved and somehow contribute something to ending the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But I am writing now because I can no longer stand by and do nothing. If there is some contribution that I can make—whether writing, witnessing, licking envelopes—that will help end this war, I would like to know. Thanks for your help. C. MaudeGembler, Syracuse, NY We have received a number of questions like yours. Below are some of the groups which have contacted us in recent months. Your best bet is to contact them directly.
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