Needed a new " Port Huron Statement "

Reflecting on headlines of the past three months,  I wonder about

    the state of youth today. What are the best and the brightest thinking

    as they see tired old men like Arafat and Sharon  continue to wage tired

    old wars - indeed the Middle East seems more and more hopeless. Hate  is

    the " gift " that keeps giving. Must the Jews annihilate the Palestinians ?

    Or the Palestinians the Jews ?  HOW can the nightmare end ?

             I  re-read with some bitterness the famous Port Huron Statement

    that founded the  SDS  ( Students for a Democratic Society ) in its

    primal innocence : "  We are the people of this generation, bred in at

    least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably

    to the world we inherit ".

                Bitterness mixed with nostalgia for an idealism that now

    seems impossible.  Still the torch must be passed to the youth.

              It is about time they got a little rebellious. They might

    have fresh ideas. They might have sanity.