Editor:
How can Israelis claim a right of self-defense against their victims – the people they stole everything from, then systematically evicted, occupied, displaced via Aliyah Bet and their One Million Plan, cut off from water/resources, and eventually of all the unspeakable evil things to do they caged them in behind 8- to 26-foot concrete walls, razor wire, electric fences, patrol trenches, surveillance cameras, motion sensors and heavily-armed soldiers?
David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, declared: “Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel.
“That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs.
“We come from Israel, it’s true, but 2,000 years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault?
“They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country.
“Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget in one or two generations’ time, but for the moment there is no chance.”
Israel and the Israelis are victims of their own and their God’s making. The Palestinians are guilty of not rolling over.
The Muslims believe that the Jews lost their right to the land when they repeatedly disobeyed God and he/she exiled them from it. The Jews say Moses said God said he would eventually bring them back.
Diane Daiute
Sweet Home