📧 from CFOIC

Dear Logan,

I had a very bad feeling from our meeting together. I felt that you came full of information and ideas that you had received from Palestinians and had already "bought into" their version of the story. You were clearly uninformed of the most basic facts regarding the creation of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement etc., which surprised me, considering you had already formed an opinion. I would have expected that you had at least researched the subject. But most upsetting to me was your lack of moral clarity. You blamed Israel for refusing to let Palestinians in to work and therefore justified their bombing of our cities. When I questioned you as to why they were not bombing the Egyptians, who also were not letting them in, you had no answer, but clearly continued to justify Palestinian actions. You went so far as to indicate that if the Palestinians were bombing Israel , Israel must be to blame. When I connected the issue to anti-Semitism, you did not back down, intimating that anti-Semitism had its root in Jewish blame as well. But far worse than that was your answer to my question if you would have been willing to kill Hitler to save 6,000,000 of my people –you said no. In that case, I have nothing to say to you. If you are willing to stand by and let evil takes it course, I really have nothing more to say to you.

In any case, I don't think I could trust you to present my opinions fairly and accurately. However, if your audiences are interested in hearing from me directly, they are welcome to contact me.

Shalom,

Sondra Oster Baras

Director, Israel Office

Christian Friends of Israeli Communities www.cfoic.com