Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:15:07 -0500
From: aaronnoach
To: [email protected]
Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and the
Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my son , Tuvia
Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from
their taxicab while travelling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were
severely beaten and stabbed.
That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there
are no gas
stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering,
like the one
clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son
from the mob.
Aaron Grossman, M.D.
6737 N Richmond
Chicago, IL 60645
(773) ###-####
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:54:39 EDT
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Dear Editor,
Even the typically biased and slanted NY Times middle east reporting
has hit a new
low. Since the Times wishes to convey the belief that the Palestinians
are all
innocent lambs being tormented by an aggressive oppressor, it can not
even conceive
that the wounded and injured are NOT Palestinians. The current case
in point is very
personal to me. In the Saturday's Times on page A6, the picture of
the "wounded
Palestinian" is, in fact, my nephew, Tuvia Grossman, an AMERICAN Jewish
student
learning in Israel. His only crime was being Jewish. He was not in
"crossfire" but
merely the target of Palestinian lambs who stoned his cab, dragged
him from the
vehicle, smashed his head with stones and stabbed him in the leg. The
Israeli soldier,
whom you obviously wished to portray as victimizing the poor, wounded
Palestinian was
actually saving my nephew's life. A casual look at the background of
the picture can
tell anyone that it's not the Temple Mount at all. I believe that a
retraction, in a
prominent position in the paper, is necessary and an apology to the
parents,
forthcoming.
Howard Gissinger
2809 Avenue S
Brooklyn, New York 11229
718-###-####
