Editor,
I read with a heavy heart your recent op-ed (“Warped zeal against Christians,” in the Jan. 2 edition of the Daily Journal). As a Jew born in Damascus, Syria, I know firsthand the fear and destitute shared by most Christians today in the Middle East and various African countries who are terrorized and murdered by extreme Islamists under the banner of Jihad.
I cannot but feel sorry for these Christians, unfortunately among them a gentle soul, who dared in 1947 to hide my family from a Muslim mob running amok in Damascus and screaming “It’bah-el-Yahud” (“slaughter the Jews”). If it was not for this courageous Arab-Christian neighbor that hid my family and helped us escape from Damascus, we would be all dead. Yet, it seems that most newspapers and media outlets in the West focus their reporting and analyses regarding the Middle East on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with a predominant bias against Israel; they pay little attention to the multitude of infighting between the various Muslim sects there, with an occasional tidbit about the plight of the Christians at the hand of marauding Islamists, be it the bombing of church in Iraq, the prosecution of Copts in Egypt and the killing of scores in Niger. More so, many Christian churches made it their main policy to chastise Israel and promote the boycott movement of Israeli goods and institutions, conveniently ignoring the fact that the only safe place in the Middle East that Christians can live and prosper is in Israel.
Sam Liron
Foster City
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