The Post, April 6).
I caution Post readers to view the submissions of Mr. Art Gish with a high degree of skepticism, (Letter unfairly frames Middle East conflict The Post, April 6). Mr. Gish calls for a U.S. foreign policy which has a more balanced approach when dealing with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Balance sounds wonderful, but it can be used disingenuously as a substitute for honesty, and to support injustice. An illustration of Mr. Gish's balance can be seen in his acknowledgment, Non-Jews do not have the same rights as Jews in Israel
just as non-Muslims do not have equal rights in Saudi Arabia. It would have been more honest if he hadn't stopped there, ...just as non-Muslims do not have equal rights in Saudi Arabia. Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, Syria...,adding the other more than fifty member-nations of The Islamic Conference. And, he could have added that there are even more Christian nations in which non-Christians have lessened rights.
Mr. Gish's balance ignores that Israel is the world's only Jewish nation, and that its elimination as a Jewish nation, as Mr. Gish advocates, would be the substitution of bigotry and injustice for admittedly imperfect Israeli justice. Rhetorically, I ask Mr. Gish: Haven't the world's Jews suffered enough, already?
Post readers, please do not listen to Mr. Gish; though he doesn't seem to care, his biased and counterproductive approach leads only to injustice and death.
Eliot Kalman is a Jewish graduate of Ohio University and former president of the Appalachian chapter of the ACLU of Ohio. He resides in Athens.
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