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Letters to the Editor

Marcia Katz, Editor's note, Pesach Rogoway, Carl Sesar, William Dilworth, Shivta Wenkart, David S. Addleman, Ruth Levy, Doug Downing

2003

Overview

Sir, - I have just read about Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah's outrage over being searched at the airport by Israeli security on his recent - abandoned - journey (\"Patriarch cancels trip to Rome after security check,\" January 19). Frankly, I'm outraged at His Beatitude's gall. As an American Jew, I have been subjected to exactly the same sort of search as the Post's news brief described. Security procedures are there for everyone's protection; I wouldn't want to fly on an airplane where VIPs had been airily waved through. Sir, - The Herut Party was deliberately banned, in advance, from Monday night's debate among political parties held at the Renaissance Jerusalem Hotel, co-sponsored and moderated by The Jerusalem Post. I read the early advertisements for the event, to which six parties were invited. Noting that Herut had been omitted I wrote to the Post politely requesting Herut's ideas be heard in such a gathering as I felt the audience of English-speaking citizens would surely have an interest in hearing the party's platform. I believe many others made the same request. Herut itself sought to be a part of the debate; but the Post chose to ignore its requests. To add insult to injury, a seventh party was added to the program just days before, according to one of the later advertisements.

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