Cleric’s Support for Hezbollah Is Appalling

Re “A Presbyterian Leader, in Syria, Criticizes Israeli Occupation,” Oct. 19: The Rev. Nile Harper’s [head of the U.S. Presbyterian Church delegation] castigation of Israel and support for Hezbollah is simply despicable. Apparently, he does not believe that a people who have suffered indignation, slavery and genocide by Arabs and Christians alike for millenniums have the right to a homeland of their own. He must have forgotten that his own ancestors fled to the U.S. to get away from the religious persecution in England.

Hezbollah has as its mission driving the Israelis into the sea. Is it any wonder Israel disregards the mandates of the U.N.? After all, how many Muslim countries get to vote, versus Jewish states?

Bruce N. Miller

Venice