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National Catholic Reporter, Oct 27, 2006 by Frank P. Belcastro
* I find Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkranz in denial when he states in his letter (NCR, Oct. 13) that "Israel does not want to dominate its neighbors nor does it want to occupy others' lands." Obviously it is doing both. He omits crucial facts and misrepresents the Palestinian Authority. Palestinians, like everyone else, have a right to resist occupation of their homeland. In a preemptive strike in 1967, Israel illegally invaded and occupied their territory and arrogantly created Israeli settlements, making it difficult to conduct peace. I wouldn't call the Palestinians terrorists but rather homeland defenders. In any other country, settlements in which only Jews are allowed to live, connected by roads that non-Jews are forbidden to use, would be cited as an example of discrimination, if not racism. Rabbi Ehrenkranz failed to state that Israel has ignored two U.N. resolutions demanding it withdraw from Palestinian territory and that Amnesty International contends that Israeli forces committed numerous war crimes. Left out is the fact that Israel destroyed 4,170 Palestinian homes since September 2000.
In Lebanon, the Israelis destroyed bridges, roads, gas stations, airports, seaports, wheat silos, vehicles with medical supplies, clearly marked ambulances taking the wounded to clinics, even a milk factory. The number of fleeing refugees neared 1 million. Israeli soldiers shot fleeing refugee families in cars, bombed apartment buildings, hospitals and the poor huddled in south Beirut slums, none of them Hezbollah soldiers. Israel need only withdraw to the 1967 border for all hostilities to end. Most important, omitted is the fact that the Arab League has offered to recognize Israel and safeguard its borders if it will withdraw its troops. Israel has refused this peace offer.
FRANK P. BELCASTRO
Des Moines, Iowa
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