30,
August 2014, Israel –
Response to local letter writer
Sadly
Ralph Bernstein echoes much of the standard Israeli propaganda which is largely
falling on deaf ears to an increasing skeptical American population. Perhaps
Bernstein is not aware that the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch, Jewish Voices for Peace and many, many other apolitical
organizations have excoriated Israel for their violations of human rights and
war crimes. I trust Bernstein doesn’t regard all these organizations to be
anti-Semitic. Israel often boasts that they knew the exact coordinates of Hamas
militant’s locations but does not offer any explanation why civilians were
massacred in such large numbers. In a further act of terror, the IDF showered
Gaza with leaflets warning that certain homes would be bombed with full
knowledge that the residents had nowhere to run. Why were so many schools, mosques
and UN buildings attacked? Why were power and sewage plants bombed leaving the
starving population no adequate drinking water or electricity?
While
I am certainly no fan of Hamas, it is puzzling to know how the Palestinians
could have responded to the terror from drones and bombs raining down on the
tight population in Gaza. Should they sing Kumbaya or do have the right to
defend themselves? If Israel claims the right of self-defense why should
Palestinians be denied the same right? Bernstein claims that Israel is a
democracy. This is certainly true for Jews but is not true for non-Jews who are
subjected to a number of Jim Crow-like laws and live in a suffocating
occupation.
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