Bosnian Refugees

Thank you for your editorial (“Now It’s a Refugee Crisis,” March 1) revealing how badly the world community has responded to the horrors inflicted on Bosnian Muslims and the refusal of nations outside the Balkans to rescue these hapless Muslim people.

There were two omissions in your editorial, which would have added a much needed perspective to this deplorable situation. First, you failed to report that none of the obscenely oil-rich, underpopulated Arab nations, such as Saudi Arabia, Libya or the Persian Gulf states, have made any effort to resettle their Muslim Bosnian brothers, at least until the situation in their homeland stabilizes.

Second, you omitted any reference to the fact that Israel, whose meager resources are already stretched to the breaking point by the implacable enmity of its Muslim Arab neighbors, intent on annihilating the Jewish state, combined with the enormous burden of rescuing the settling hundreds of thousands of refugees from the old Soviet Union and Ethiopia, has taken in more refugees from Yugoslavia than has France, and at least as many Muslim refugees as have arrived in our United States.

ALBERT SAFIANOFF

Rancho Palos Verdes