Zionist Organization of America national president Morton Klein defamed me (“Your Say,” May 21) by calling me a liar — and thereby impugning my integrity — claiming that mycharacterization of the ZOA (“Your Say,” April 24) as inimical to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem was false.
Proof of my truth telling (and Klein’s duplicity) may be found in the Oct. 29 “Your Say” letter of Marc Caroff, who, speaking in the name of the ZOA of which he is its Washington Chapter president, asseverates Israel’s “lawful claims to sovereignty within defensible borders, from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean Sea.” He further pontificates that “the ‘two-state solution’ is clearly no solution at all.” In a similar Sept. 26 “Your Say” letter, Caroff had denounced the “two-state chimera” and, affirming a Greater Israel agenda, insisted that “the incorporation of Judea and Samaria into Israel is a viable, just and realistic option.”
According to Rashi, “God’s seal is truth.” As a God-fearing Jew, Klein (and the ZOA) owes me — and the readers of the Jewish Times — an apology. The State of Israel deserves better.