In his letter to the
Santa Monica Daily Press just after Thanksgiving Day, Mr. Andy K. Liberman
chose to blame the victim once again for the ongoing, never-ending Middle East
crisis: Israel.
I am deeply troubled
that an apparently intelligent reader would indict the state of Israel's
defensive military efforts as a "genocide of the Palestinian people."
The terrorist group
Hamas, the same organization which the residents of Gaza democratically elected
to be their leadership, have to this day enshrined in their charter the
eradication of the Jewish state. They want to push Israel into the sea, kill
all the Jews, then impose Sharia law on the whole earth. Those elected Islamic
radicals in Gaza are the true purveyors of "Genocide", a virulent,
violent government policy which indicates a systematic extermination of an
entire people. It is a travesty for anyone to bandy around the turn
"genocide" when describing the unfortunate deaths of innocents caught
in the crossfire between a liberal democracy that wishes to defend itself
versus a terrorist thuggocracy which is willing to destroy itself in order to
destroy the other country.
Contrary to Liberman's
unkind assertion, the Jewish state has reached out time and again not just to
say but also to offer "Shalom" to the hostile Arab states in the
region. In 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon foolishly gave Gaza to the
Palestinians as a goodwill gesture of "Shalom". Today, the Israeli citizens
gaze at a terrorist state with kiyusha missiles aimed at them every day. Over
and over, the terrorist groups, the same organizations which the residents of
Gaza elected, continue to demand nothing less than the eradication of the
Jewish State.
"All this
havoc" which Liberman disdains is indeed about Israel's self defense and
security, for the Gaza terrorists have fired the first missile first every
time, and they should be blamed for the "droves of children dying."
It is appalling that anyone would indict the Jewish state as an instigators of
genocide, especially since Israel and the growing aliyah of Jewish
people to the region is a result of the most dramatic and unspeakable genocide
in history: the Holocaust.
One can only cry at
such moral ambivalence.
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