West Bloomfield -Dearborn divide

NIRAJ WARIKOO: Why is it when the Free Press published your article about the July 18 Dearborn march, they or you felt the necessity to surround it with an ad for a pro-Israel rally the next day and the article itself larded with views contrary to those of the marchers when they had nothing to do with what was being reported? I've been a journalist for 40 years and I know propaganda when I see it. Your pro-Israel rally article the next day didn't have one line of contrary opinion from opponents of Israel's war, or if it did, it nowhere resembled the previous one.

Your article on anti-Semitism is libelous toward myself and the other 10,000 Dearborn marchers by linking it with a shooting by a deranged man. I just came from another anti-Israeli war march in downtown Detroit where American citizens expressed outrage at Israel's destruction of Lebanon and its targeting of civilians. The idea that to criticize Israel, even by comparing it to the Nazis, is anti-Semitism is calumny.

You are complicit in the massacre that's occurring. Or, did I miss your article as sympathetic to the Lebanese-American people who care about their ancestral home as the one about the Jewish community? I hope so. If there hasn't been one, your letter of commendation from the IDF should arrive soon.

Peter Werbe

Israeli kids and bad manners