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 reside in peace and safety.
I’m struck, although, by the headline. “Between Proper and Proper” is the title of a guide by A. B. Yehoshua, considered one of Israel’s most outstanding public intellectuals, and it appeared in English in 1981. It’s a pity that, as Kristof notes, a “Manichaean paradigm of excellent versus evil” has now grow to be so pervasive. So a few years after Yehoshua wrote about proper and proper, would that this idea have been the prevailing and never a “completely different” approach to consider the Center East.
Naomi Sokoloff, Seattle
