Stone

Happy birthday to I.F. Stone, journalist, who was born today in 1907 and lived for 81 years.

In 1967, Stone wrote:

Stripped of propaganda and sentiment, the Palestine problem is, simply, the struggle of two different peoples for the same strip of land. ... For me the Arab problem is also the No. 1 Jewish problem. How we act toward the Arabs will determine what kind of people we become – either oppressors and racists in our turn like those from whom we have suffered, or a nobler race able to transcend the tribal xenophobias that afflict mankind.1 (I. F. Stone, “Holy War,” New York Review of Books, August 3, 1969)

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