Loeb Granoff defends the indefensible (8/11, Opinion, “Israel was forced to impose tough border controls”). It is wrong to seize people’s water, farms, businesses and homes, then prevent them from freely moving in their own land; to prevent them attending schools and universities; to limit food and fuel and medicines so that many die; to bomb and strafe and shoot and maim, to kill randomly; to imprison and torture.
Mr. Granoff might want to take a closer look at the historical record of the conflict before he begrudges Yaser Wishah’s visit to his ailing father in Gaza. Mr. Wishah threw stones as a youth. He tried to fight soldiers who pinned his mother on the floor, then was sent to jail for 10 months.
Would Mr. Granoff not defend his own mother if someone attacked her? Would Mr. Granoff not defend his own house? Would he not pick up something, anything, to throw at an intruder?
Andrea Whitmore
Fairway
Engineer,
The UN created Israel, didn't they? maybe I should have listed the UN in my initial post.
Posted by: solomon | August 17, 2008 at 05:35 PM
solomon
If we do not support Israel they will be overrun. Preventing this is the job, and primary reason for its existence, of the UN, but the UN has never lived up to this duty.
Posted by: Engineer | August 17, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Good morning Rogue,
I'm not on that side either, I'm just also not on the side of the Israelis. Do we really have to pick a side in every comnflict on earth?
Posted by: solomon | August 17, 2008 at 10:23 AM
I personally am on the side that does NOT employ homicide bombers that strap ball bearings and C4 to themselves and then walk into pizza parlors.......
But hey, that's just me.....
Posted by: Rogue | August 17, 2008 at 09:26 AM
Andrea forgets that to many people there are two sides to every confrontation but only side is credible.
Who started this? some will say the Arabs and egyptians by attacking the young nation of Israe. Some will say the European and American Jewish immigrants to Isarael that took land and pushed the Palestinians into refugee camps. some will say its the inability for the two sides to co-exist, with one side fighting for their supremacy in the area and the other side taking was was given to them out of universal guilt.
There is no right side in the Middle East.
Posted by: solomon | August 16, 2008 at 10:40 PM