In your article “Mission Accomplished, Ecumenically” (Feb. 3), Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is to be commended for his interfaith trip to Israel. In doing so he has changed many attitudes toward Jews and Israel.
I just wish that he would also visit Efrat and other well-established Jewish towns in the West Bank to try to give his guests a balanced approach to what some people call an occupation.
I know he is against the settlements, but in the true nature of democracy, giving a chance to those he doesn’t agree with would make him more enlightening.
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