In his March 18 letter, “Vision of hope on the horizon,” Alvin Fischer claims that Iran is anxious because of Israel’s “nationalistic ambitions.” Israel has not displayed nationalist ambitions toward Iran because, for one thing, it wouldn’t make sense. Iran is so far away, located on the opposite side of the Middle East from Israel.
But Iran has shown genocidal ambition toward Israel and recently tested rockets emblazoned with slogans calling for Israel’s destruction. So who should be anxious in this situation?
In the next paragraph, Fischer refers to “our former enemies, Russia and the Slavic people.” Does he think that all the Polish Americans in Chicago were working to undermine the U.S. during the Cold War? They are, after all, Slavic people. The truth is that the Soviet Union was made up of Russia and many satellite states, some Slavic and some not. Some of the Slavic nations were allied with the United States against her, just as many non-Slavic states were allied with the Soviet Union against the U.S.
