To the editor: Rashid Khalidi’s enlightening article, “How the US Has Fueled Israel’s Decade-Lengthy Warfare on Palestinians,” rewrites historical past.
His characterization of the battle as a “colonial” battle belittles the Jewish individuals’s ancestral ties to Israel and indigenous standing there. He additionally fails to expel greater than 850,000 Jews from Arab nations and Iran after the creation of Israel in 1948.
He apparently justifies the 1948, 1967 and 1973 wars aimed toward destroying Israel, ignoring Israel’s peace proposal for a Palestinian state, which was violently rejected.
Lastly, he ignores the barbarism of Hamas. On October 7, it burned kids and slaughtered a whole bunch of younger individuals at a music pageant. Hamas kidnapped, raped, maimed and massacred Israelis to impress a battle, then cynically used Gaza’s civilians as human shields and maximized Palestinian casualties.
As Hamas official Ghazi Hamad mentioned, Hamas is “proud to sacrifice martyrs” to wipe out Israel.
America is correct to help Israel.
Stephen A. Silver, San Francisco
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To the editor: Khalidi’s work is most notable for its contradictions and omissions.
He acknowledges “the simple connection of Judaism and the Jewish individuals” to Israel. However he additionally calls Israeli Jews colonial settlers.
Colonists haven’t any prior connection to the land they’ve settled on. However the Jewish connection to Israel, as Khalidi writes, is unquestionable.
The truth is, Jews are initially from Israel. Some by no means left their Israeli houses, whereas others have returned dwelling to Israel eternally from their compelled exile in overseas lands.
No quantity of revisionism can change the literary, historic and archaeological information that set up Israel because the Jewish ancestral dwelling.
Rosette Liberman, Pittsford, NY
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To the editor: I used to be raised to respect and honor Israel. Lately, the insurance policies of the Israeli authorities, underneath individuals like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have compelled me to fully change my considering.
I fully agree with Khalidi.
I’m 80 years outdated. So members of the 18-34 age group aren’t alone of their disapproval of President Biden’s dealing with of the battle on Gaza, to not point out the gradual ethnic cleaning of the West Financial institution.
Noel Park, Rancho Palos Verdes
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To the editor: With out debating right here the rights and wrongs of every aspect of the battle, it’s sure that the blame for failure to resolve it lies largely with these like Khalidi, who’ve used their standing and affect for a few years to keep up the Palestinian phantasm of , that Israel may be overthrown and destroyed by way of drive.
Khalidi justifies that strategy ideologically with the truth that Israel is a colonial energy, not a sovereign state.
What number of extra wars will it take earlier than either side of the battle decides {that a} totally different strategy is required? On the Palestinian aspect, it might start by rejecting Khalidi’s encouragement to embrace the false narrative that Israel is a colonial energy.
Jonathan Goldberg, Los Angeles
