Controversy Over Cutting Aid to Israel

I would always switch channels whenever Pat Buchanan showed up on the tube--not any more, not after reading his column (“Bob Dole’s Proposal Is Half a Right Idea,” Opinion, Jan. 21). It has been long overdue for anyone of Buchanan’s stature to speak up against “the mighty American-Israel Political Action Committee,” but, of course, Buchanan is not running for political office. Note Sen. Pete Wilson’s column (“Arafat’s Roadblocks to Peace”) on the same page. He is one of those who has permitted himself to be cowed into shameful silence, as Buchanan stated, and hopes to be our next governor.

Wilson writes the same old tired rhetoric--we should “support America’s strategic ally, Israel.” No doubt AIPAC will be sending him a nice check to help his campaign.

JOHN M. CONCILIO

Garden Grove