To the editor: I lived in Israel and Palestine in 1973 and realized how biased the Western press was in opposition to the Palestinians. The bias continues at this time. (“Is Israel Committing Genocide? Most of These Readers Say No,” Letters, Nov. 25.)
The Hamas killings on October 7 didn’t occur in a vacuum. Non secular extremists are on the rise within the Israeli authorities.
In 1993, the Palestinians and Israelis acknowledged their nationwide aspirations within the Oslo Peace Accords and agreed to the creation of Palestine primarily based on the 1967 borders. The 2017 Hamas constitution accepted a state primarily based on the 1967 borders.
In his first election as prime minister in 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu campaigned in opposition to the accords after an Israeli extremist assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Since then, the Israeli authorities has greater than doubled the variety of settlers. It has confiscated Palestinian land and imposed separation in violation of worldwide legislation, which an occupying energy can not switch elements of its personal inhabitants to the territory it occupies.
Assist for Palestinian rights doesn’t imply the eradication of Israel. Razing the Gaza Strip in pursuit of Hamas won’t ever create the peaceable coexistence that thousands and thousands of Palestinians and Israelis need.
Keith Ensminger, Merced
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To the editor: You lately printed a letter attacking Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) and Katie Porter (D-Irvine), each Senate candidates, for cowardice in not taking a robust stand on the California Democratic Celebration conference on the demise of Palestinians in Gaza.
Schiff and Porter are working to signify all of the folks of California. How might anybody name them cowards when the battle was and is so fluid and unpredictable?
Schiff and Porter have acted responsibly within the midst of a really disturbing and painful battle. Simply because folks do not agree with them does not make them improper or cowards.
Maybe it’s too early to make certain what is occurring on this battle. And maybe each Schiff and Porter are conscious of administration negotiations and wish to preserve their lips sealed till the president and his staff can do their job.
Larry Margo, Valley Village