Tuesday, April 13, 2004

The Extraordinary Standards of Israeli Apologists

Editor
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Dear Editor:

Shmuel Ben-Shmuel’s op-ed ("Only a culture of hate uses child bombers,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Monday, April 12, 2004) is extraordinary even by the standards of Israeli apologists. It is truly despicable of him to speak of “the Palestinian culture of hatred” when the country that Mr. Ben-Shmuel represents occupies Palestine and has turned Gaza and the West Bank into world’s largest concentration camps.

Suicide bombing is certainly wrong and therefore has been widely deplored. Palestinians, however, cannot be blamed for trying to resist the territorial encroachment that Israel’s greedy leadership has been carrying out for decades. Human rights groups have documented that the Israeli occupation army kills and tortures innocent Palestinian children and civilians. Mr. Ben-Shmuel’s paymasters have been attacking Palestinian villages with tanks and high-tech bombs. Israeli diplomats know that their country mimics the apartheid regime in many ways. Rather than writing diatribes against Palestinian culture and resistance, Mr. Ben-Shmuel should ask his bosses to stop violating laws and end the occupation.

Sincerely,

Tanweer Akram

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