FROM HA'ARETZ: OPEN LETTER TO MAHMOUD ABBAS FOR YOM KIPPUR
By Carlo Strenger, from Ha'aretz, 2011
Dear Mr. Abbas,
Generally I write to my fellow Jews and Israelis for our high holidays. For you Yom Kippur is, of course, not a day of reckoning, but I hope you will accept these words from an Israeli who has sponsored your cause for years with all his heart. I have done so no less for the sake for my country than for your country that has yet to come into being.