Flat Earth "} 6d:{"position":18,"content":"Sir, – Martin Sherman’s increasingly bombastic and arrogant level of rhetoric (“Square circles, aerodynamic pigs and two states,” Into the Fray, March 30) seems like the panic of a member of the Flat Earth Society who cannot escape the logic that points inexorably to a round planet. Moreover, he announces that he will squander future columns on more of the same."} 6e:{"position":19,"content":"Sherman’s peculiar Flat Earth Society is his tantrum-driven denial that there can possibly be a coherent end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a two-state solution that preserves a Jewish and democratic State of Israel. But there simply can be no other morally admissible or logically possible way, any more than there can be a flat Earth – so he continues to scream and blame and lash out and scapegoat and fulminate and apparently foredoom us to still more enraged, conceited, senseless and, above all, futile columns of denial."} 6f:{"position":20,"content":"JAMES ADLER Cambridge, Massachusetts"} 70:{"position":21,"content":"Stop groveling "} 71:{"position":22,"content":"Sir, – Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau, with the ostrich-like mentality that abounds in this land, believes that exporting gas to our neighbors will be an important step in building trust and peace in the region (“Landau: Israel’s first natural gas exports will go to Palestinians, Jordanians,” March 29)."} 72:{"position":23,"content":"Forget that our neighbors are attacking us daily. Forget that they deny us our rights to this land."} 73:{"position":24,"content":"Forget that they incite daily toward our destruction. (Actually, we give them no reason to do otherwise.) My advice to this government would be to get off its collective knees, stop crawling and groveling, and behave like proud Jews in their sovereign state whose first and, in fact, only obligation is ou

April 3: Not quite an error

The word, of course, should have been “sacred.” We regret the error, whether typographical or subconscious in nature.