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Issue date: 4/17/09 Section: Commentary
Middle East conflict
column ignores
bigotry of both sides
What is most disturbing to me about the recent column, "U.S. should not support Israelis in Palestine-Israel conflict," (April 6) by Ali Mirza, is how one-sided it is. My mind is just flooded with responses.
In a way I want to say, "So what if there are a couple of bigoted rabbis who may or may not have connections to the Israeli army?" The army still has an obligation to try to stop the terrorists attacking Jewish civilians, sending missiles into the neighboring Israeli towns day after day. They have a right to try to shut down the munitions supply lines from Egypt. They have a right to return fire from terrorists who store weapons in and launch attacks from schools, mosques and hospitals.
It is just bizarre that the press is so worried about what a couple of rabbis may have said to some Israeli soldiers. The good citizens of Gaza elected a government that has promised that they will kill all the Jews in Israel. They have promised them war, not peace. They promote war with their missiles. Their government has snuggled up to the president of Sudan, a criminal responsible for perpetrating a devastating war on the civilians in the Darfur region of his own country and whose soldiers use rape as a weapon.
Please. Israelis are normal. Having a few bigoted religious leaders is normal and is trivial compared to what their religious leaders say about Israelis and Jews.
Do the readers of this drivel at UConn know where Gaza is? It should be a luxury resort on the Mediterranean. The Israelis are not preventing that from happening. The Gazans should be building hotels; instead they are smuggling in bombs to kill the Jews.
It's time for UConn students to look at a big map of the Middle East and then find out why the Palestinian people are suffering and who really is causing it.
- Judy G. Singer
West Hartford
UConn class of 1969
column ignores
bigotry of both sides
What is most disturbing to me about the recent column, "U.S. should not support Israelis in Palestine-Israel conflict," (April 6) by Ali Mirza, is how one-sided it is. My mind is just flooded with responses.
In a way I want to say, "So what if there are a couple of bigoted rabbis who may or may not have connections to the Israeli army?" The army still has an obligation to try to stop the terrorists attacking Jewish civilians, sending missiles into the neighboring Israeli towns day after day. They have a right to try to shut down the munitions supply lines from Egypt. They have a right to return fire from terrorists who store weapons in and launch attacks from schools, mosques and hospitals.
It is just bizarre that the press is so worried about what a couple of rabbis may have said to some Israeli soldiers. The good citizens of Gaza elected a government that has promised that they will kill all the Jews in Israel. They have promised them war, not peace. They promote war with their missiles. Their government has snuggled up to the president of Sudan, a criminal responsible for perpetrating a devastating war on the civilians in the Darfur region of his own country and whose soldiers use rape as a weapon.
Please. Israelis are normal. Having a few bigoted religious leaders is normal and is trivial compared to what their religious leaders say about Israelis and Jews.
Do the readers of this drivel at UConn know where Gaza is? It should be a luxury resort on the Mediterranean. The Israelis are not preventing that from happening. The Gazans should be building hotels; instead they are smuggling in bombs to kill the Jews.
It's time for UConn students to look at a big map of the Middle East and then find out why the Palestinian people are suffering and who really is causing it.
- Judy G. Singer
West Hartford
UConn class of 1969
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Webby
posted 4/17/09 @ 10:27 AM EST
Yawn, another pro-Israeli, "Palestinians are bringing this on themselves" letter.
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