23, October 2003
Response to local letters,
In defending the extremist views of Daniel Pipes, Sheree
Roth displays her obvious bias against Muslims. It is a pity Roth and Pipes
choose to ignore the hijacking of the Jewish faith by Sharon and other Israeli fanatics who have
unleashed a reign of terror on the Palestinians in pursuit of a 'greater Israel'. Under the smoke screen of
routing out terrorists, Israel has occupied large swaths of Gaza and the West
Bank, demolished 11,000 homes, murdered hundreds of innocent civilians including women and children. The killing of
innocent civilians by suicide bombers is repugnant.
The killing of innocent civilians using helicopter
gunships, tanks, and bombs, is equally repugnant. Perhaps Roth is not aware that Israeli reserve pilots
refused to bomb civilians and presented a signed petition stating they would
not take part in "illegal and immoral" strikes in Palestinians area in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
This follows hundreds of reserve soldiers who have pledged not to serve
in the West Bank and Gaza strip, stating they will "fight no more to rule, deport, destroy, blockade, exterminate,
starve, and humiliate the Palestinian people. Israel's leading human
rights group, B'Tselem recently reported that Israel had violated 29 of the 30
Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Roth and Pipes would do
well to heed the advice of the great Rabbi,
Eliezer Waldman, who heads a yeshiva of Kiryat Arba who said "soldiers
MUST NOT follow and order that is against the commandment of the Torah."
Fanaticism and murder is indefensible be it Islamic militants or Jewish
terrorists. Finally, I am appalled that the Hoover Institution chose to tarnish
its apolitical image by sponsoring Daniel Pipes's talk.
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