'I wonder to what lengths the Israelis have to go before they raise one squeak of criticism from their apologists'
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Jim, you know that I have more than squeaked, but have risked alienating myself from my nearest & dearest by my criticisms of the iniquities of that dreadful regime, which in no way resembles what I spent so much of my youth trying to establish. You know also that we have been before over your injudicious use of terms like 'holocaust', which you persisted in despite its being pointed out to you how offensive this was, not just to Israel, but to the entire worldwide Jewish demographic; which was the occasion of some accusations on my part, which you much resented at the time & which you know I now regret. You recently expressed a wish for a rapprochement between us, to which I wholeheartedly agreed.

So I am most saddened to find you still concurring in the employment of these preternaturally offensive terms. It is not your points I question, but the ill-judgment of the vocabulary in which you and others are couching them here.

Please let us not revert to our regrettable hostile mode of address to one another. A little restraint in the terms in which you put your points would, I think, be desirable.

Best regards

~Michael~