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Nothing but dignity
Sir-- The supposition that this recent attack on Gaza will dislodge the Palestinian people from supporting Hamas is foolhardy, wrongheaded and disastrous. When a people have nothing left but the clothes on their backs, scraps of food and cups of water, their lives and their courage, their dignity will sustain them no matter what the Israelis bring upon them and their leaders. Hamas will call a third Intifada and fight to the death. And such a darker, deeper stain on the Israeli psyche will this genocide forever be.
Stephen Moyer
Ontario
Canada
Let aid in
Sir-- What a shame that Egypt is aggravating the situation in Gaza by closing down the border and preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching the Palestinians.
We are very concerned about what is happening. Israel is killing and maiming besieged civilians, including children in Gaza, and Egypt, of all countries, is preventing aid from reaching them. Stop blocking humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Gaza and start acting kindly to our brothers and sisters.
Khaled Al-Omrani
Pennsylvania
USA
Of US making
Sir-- This Palestinian mess in Gaza can be blamed on the Bush administration. Had this administration exercised any kind of restraint several years ago in terms of not pushing for national elections in Gaza at that particular point in time, thereby allowing for moderate elements in the region to have more time to work through its election process, Hamas probably would not be in power today.
As Israel has begun its ground invasion into Gaza, the United States just stands by without so much as offering humanitarian aid to Palestinian people.
Gaza is land and sea-locked by Israeli forces whereby this Palestinian population is bottled-up, and is virtually imprisoned like convicts by Israel. It is no wonder why the indigenous Gaza population hates Israel given that Eastern European Jews seized their land 60 years ago, forcing these people to live in the squalor of long-term refugee camps, culminating with these incessant air attacks, and now this ground invasion.
During last summer's Russian incursion into Georgia, the United States screamed from its pontificating high-horse about the evil associated with this action. Thereafter, the administration sent into the Black Sea two American warships loaded with humanitarian supplies, which through the use of these warships, was considered to be a provocative act on the part of the United States by Russia.
Now, the limp-wrist American response to Israel's bellicose policies is conveniently minus the indignant criticism which was so manifest of Russia last July. But, what else would one expect in terms of a response from the United States government, given Jewish ownership and influence in American government, law, electronic and print media, education, business, industry, medicine, healthcare, energy and entertainment sectors?
Earl Beal
Indiana
USA
Calamitous hopes
Sir-- Hopefully, when the US is declared insolvent and it becomes plain that much of the missing trillions from decades of financial shenanigans have mysteriously ended up in Israel, the US will be forced to abandon its overseas empire of threat and murder, and Israel will be forced to live in peace with its neighbours, including the Palestinians ('Cold War shivers' Al-Ahram Weekly 1-6 January). I know the fundamentalist Zionists won't like it, but dreams of global empire through their puppet hyper-power can only lead to calamity for everyone.
Mulga Ubain
California
USA
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