Ms. Sandra Miranda
Library Director
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Avenue
White Plains, NY 10601

Dear Ms. Miranda:

As an educator, I have been following with interest and growing indignation your on-going correspondence with Mr. Medhat Credi. He is a scholar with an enviable academic background and a champion of the rights of Arab and Palestinian people.

Since I am neither Jewish nor Arab but of Anglo-Saxon background I feel equippe to approach this matter in an objective manner. I cannot understand your reluctance to allow for a balanced representation of opinion in your library. After all it is supposed to be a public library. With Commentary, Tikkun, and Midstream on your shelves I feel that asking you to place Washington Report on Middle East Affairs next to these publications (at no expense to you!) would bring a semblance of fairness to the present one-sided situation.

Unless you have a hidden agenda! And here's the rub. Despite your circumlocutions and denial of censorship (which for librarians should be a dirty word) one suspects that you are not acting on your own. Are there other forces at work behind the scenes, pulling the strings, preventing you from being objective and balanced? I trust this is not so.

I hope then that, as Director, you will be brave and reconsider your rejection of Mr. Credi's offer. Show the public that your library is fearless in its objectivity, balanced in its presentations, and open to an array of diverse opinion.

Sincerely,

Richard Cross, M.A., M.S.