U.S. policy in Israel questioned

by Telegram - February 28, 2009 11:10pm

Concerning an “As I See It” piece by Scott Schaeffer-Duffy (Telegram & Gazette, Jan. 28), a letter writer from Worcester accused him of indulging in “half-truths.” Mr. Schaeffer-Duffy’s piece described an incident he witnessed while in Gaza. An Israeli soldier fired a tear gas canister into a shuttered home, killing a Palestinian infant. When he reported the circumstances of the child’s death to Joel Brinkley, then Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, the journa