Bias is plain in opinion article
Re “Deal or no deal in Beirut,” Opinion, Nov. 21
Even after 40 years of covering the Middle East, Milton Viorst fails to qualify as a disinterested observer, as witnessed by his comment: “Hezbollah’s militia . . . stopped an incursion by the Israeli army into south Lebanon.” Why no mention of Hezbollah’s provocative invasion of Israel and the murder of several Israeli soldiers and the kidnapping of two others? His text deliberately implied that the Israelis invaded Lebanon without cause. And by the way, the United Nations stopped Israel, not Hezbollah. Viorst also claims the Lebanese detest the U.S. because “American officials did little or nothing to stop the incursion.” Why would they, when Hezbollah was the aggressor? Does he suppose there’s a moral equivalence between supporting Israel and, say, supporting Syria or Iran?
Enough of Viorst, please.
Jack Salem
Los Angeles
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