27, June
2014
Dear Editor, Response to WSJ ‘Three Boys, one
terrorist, by Tzipi Livni
I am
extremely disappointed that you would allow your fine newspaper to be used to propagate
Israeli propaganda. Tzipi Livni’s article is replete with the same tired, unsubstantiated
charges of Hamas’s guilt in kidnapping the three settler teenagers. There is
not a shred of evidence 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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