28, June 2014
Dear Editor, Israel
It’s a pity that more reporters and US government
officials are not challenging Israel’s contention that Hamas is responsible for
the kidnapping of three settler teenagers. There is not a scintilla of evidence to support Israel’s
claims. Israel’s justice minister, Tzipi Livni’s, has been
offering the same tired, unsubstantiated charges of Hamas’s guilt. One does not
even know whether the three boys were even kidnapped. Repeating the mantra that
Hamas is responsible for the kidnapping does not prove they had any involvement.
Sadly, the Obama administration has not uttered one word critical of the
Israeli government’s recent actions conducting raids in the Occupied
Territories and the West Bank arresting over 360 Palestinians, and killing at
least four. It is a horrific example of collective punishment. It is blatantly
obvious that this action was taken to weaken Hamas and destroy the fragile
unity government. People in Ramallah are experiencing Israeli raids for the
first time. There is almost a complete lockdown in Hebron. This is a gross
violation of international law; to subject over two million Palestinians in the
West Bank that have nothing to do with the alleged kidnapping. Let us hope that
Obama stiffens his spine and demands an immediate end to Israel’s collective
punishment of the Palestinians.
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