ZOA News
September 2, 2009IN THE NEWS
Letter to the Editor Detroit Free Press – Submitted via Their Website
by ZOAsupporter Ed Kohl
Regarding “Peters a changed man after Gaza trip”; Sunday, August 23, Free Press:
It is good that Rep. Gary Peters witnessed the damage and living conditions the residents of Sderot live with daily from the continuing barrage of rockets from Gaza aimed at the civilian population and infrastructure of the Israeli city. The sole purpose of the rocket attacks is to kill and maim civilians – children, women and men. They target the city with no regard to which home, school yard or synagogue they explode in to create maximum damage. There were 8500 Jews living among one and a half million Palestinian Arabs in Gaza and the Arabs could not tolerate their presence, so the Jews left in 2005 leaving the Palestinian Arabs vineyards, operational factories and a functional infrastructure which was promptly destroyed because “Jews owned them”. Instead of creating a peaceful, productive society they created a terrorist enclave that breeds children to hate and kill.
Hamas controls Gaza. The Hamas Charter states (among other lovely statements) “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
Who will they target next?
Regards,
Ed Kohl
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies
According to both Israeli officials and Western diplomats, U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has recognized the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot announce a settlement freeze in East Jerusalem. The officials said the U.S. will not endorse new construction there, but would not demand Jerusalem publicly announce a freeze.
***We have no business telling Israel where they can build on their own land!***
Netanyahu presented a proposal on Wednesday for resolving the ongoing Israeli-American dispute over construction in the settlements…continued
