Letter to the Editor
October 8, 2014
Letter to the Editor,
I am writing to you about an article that I read in the school newspaper (“With Israel I stand,” Sept. 2014) which I found very offensive and incorrect. This article was written by student Hanna Kang about the Israel and Palestine genocide.
As many people have seen over their summer break, if they were lucky enough to have one, would probably be the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in Palestine. Although many of us sleep peacefully at night, that is not the case for many Palestinians who are under attack. Some might take the side of Israel for “defending” itself. But in reality, what they are doing is mass murder just for more land.
Israel bombed families’ houses; they shelled peoples houses; and killed innocent families. Many people find it just to say that Israel is doing this to defend itself but in reality really what Israel is doing is trying to take over the land of which belongs to Palestinians. Palestinians now lack clean water, and the water that they do have gives them diseases causing them to die. Fifty-seven percent of Palestinians lack food. When both parties tried to make peace, the U.S. came in and started supplying the Israelis with weapons. So the Zionists aren’t the only people on the bad side, the U.S. is also on the bad side for supporting them with billions of dollars and weapons.
I believe there won’t be a change unless we as community members stand up and protest against this mass murder. Over 3,000 Palestinians have had to suffer the bombing and persecution from the Israeli army. Many of the innocents included few month old babies, and more than 500 were killed. 400 and more children were murdered and tortured. And altogether, 485,000 Palestinians have been misplaced from their own homeland. More than 9,000 people were injured, and 1400 new orphans were made. And the world calls Hamas the terrorist group. All Hamas is doing is trying to take back what is rightfully theirs. How can someone call Palestinians terrorists when they only killed close to 300 people, 297 being soldiers and 3 being civilians where as Israeli forces killed more than 3,000 people, 90 percent of them being civilians, children, mothers, fathers, and babies. This genocide has to stop! You can tell that humanity is lost when you need hundreds of people to protest that bombing children is not OK. If 9/11 deserved a moment of silence, then Gaza deserves for us to never speak again.
Basim Awan, Senior
