Anti-Semitism?

As I scanned the newspaper today I noticed something that makes me ashamed to call myself and Iowan. In the letter to the editor section of the newspaper today there was a string of letters on the current Israeli and Palestinian conflict. I find it extremely shameful that all but one letter placed the blame where it really belongs. Instead they condemn Israel and one even has the audacity to blame the United States for the Israeli-Palestinian war.

The first letter that I read attempted to claim that Israel was in violation of international law. However the letter writer does not inform us what international law that was supposed to have been. Perhaps it is the one in which a nation does not have the right to defend against terrorist scumbags like Hamas. Sound familiar to you, I would be willing to bet that these same people opposed the US invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11 also. The author of this letter prefers instead to trumpet the anti-Semitic viewpoints that you see in the mainstream media. It is shameful that an Iowan can be this foolish.

And then in another letter an individual from Ames calls the Israeli response unjustified. This gentleman claims to condemn the rocket attacks by Hamas over the last couple of weeks, however this man then goes on to call Israel’s retaliatory strike unacceptable. He attempts to claim that the Israeli strikes are indiscriminate in nature. I don’t know where he got that when the majority of the dead in Palestine were security forces, Hamas’ pitiful attempt at a military. What this guy doesn’t tell you is that Hamas has conveniently located military structure in residential areas in an attempt to hide them or discourage Israel from targeting those missile sites. Once again we have the opinion of an individual that has been shaped by the anti-Semitic press.

The final letter is the dumbest of them all. In this letter the individual blames the United States for the current crisis in the Middle East. He claims that this wouldn’t have happened if the US didn’t help out its ally. Perhaps there is some truth to that, but if we didn’t help them we would probably be reading about the second holocaust. I don’t think that I need to go into too much detail on this letter.

I have to wonder what if anything is going through the heads of these letter writers. It is obvious that they get their news from sources that biased and anti-Semitic in nature. Perhaps these people are anti-Semitic themselves. It wasn’t Israel that violated the most recent cease fire agreement, it was the Palestinians. Unfortunately too many people have the blinders on and only see what the media wants them to see.