Perhaps Mr. Afani, who wrote "Action is required in Israel as was during Apartheid" (July 23), could explain why the Arab countries don't need "intellectual" intervention as well, given the history of sanctioned racist and hate-filled education in those nations of the Middle East.

When your neighbors keep insisting you don't have a right to live as a human being, much less as a sovereign nation, then building walls can become a perceived solution, even if it may be a poor one.

Coincidentally, there was a new article about this in the Slate recently: "Changing the world one schoolbook at a time," by Anne Applebaum. I suggest that boycotting Saudi Arabia might be a more moral solution.

But, of course, they have oil, don't they?

Leonard Cimet

East Setauket, N.Y.