To the Editor:
I just finished reading through your interview with David Barsamian on the history of the current Israeli-Islam conflict ["The Never Ending Story," 8/06]. This interview is littered with erroneous information. What indicates its irrefutable bias is, however, its complete failure to mention the 2005 Lebanese protest of Syrian occupation.

The problem of a "terrorist nation within a nation" has a clear and delineable history if one chooses to look at all the events that have taken place. Given that, I would like to say that I think the left needs to open its eyes to the real situation here and start to understand that Bush's enemies are not necessarily their friends. The pan-Arab agenda is painfully obvious to just about everyone but the extreme American left. Israel is a complicated situation, and possibly any credo that the American left may adopt would be that of concentration on domestic matters above all else.
Joshua Zeidner, via e-mail

To the Editor:
Having just finished reading Amanda Bader's excellent article, "Hidden Harvest" [8/06], I turned to Patrick Shield's list of farmer's markets and was disappointed once more, in the context of being part of the Hudson Valley, to find that "our" part of the region was not included. There is a farmer's market in Ellenville on Saturdays—call (845) 647-5626 for details—and there are four other markets in Sullivan County (visit www.sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org). It would seem that including a greater extent of territory to the west would balance the inclusion of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Millbrook.

Though residents of Ulster County, we feel isolated from many resources and a circuitous postal system (the Woodstock Times takes 10 days or more to reach us). We look forward to getting issues of Chronogram whenever we can and are inevitably impressed and delighted with the quality of coverage, the writing, the design and, not least, all the valuable information.
M. Piera, Sundown