Letters to the Editor
monique_des
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 1
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life under occupation
[Read the article: Letter from Gaza]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have your translation wrong Kasimira and this isn't about virgins, although thank you for trying to divert this all too important issue to sex. It is about life under occupation. When a family can't afford for a funeral for their own child, an innocent victim of oppression. Confined to basically an open air prison they are left with little or no power over their own lives and even deaths. The Palestinians in Gaza have no control over their borders, sea and airspace, their travel is limited and their lives are at risk daily...It is very unfortunate that even a funeral has to be used in a powerplay, but they are all in fact quite powerless and have found themselves fighting for the crumbs.
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totally agree with Zandru
[Read the article: Letter from Gaza]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Young male Palestinians have long been the target of Israelis.
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[Read the article: God grief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think to make blanket statements about Islam and any other religion shows unenlightenment. It is easy to judge anything, it is harder to understand. There is so much written on faith in a sincere effort to understand it. Needless to say I don't think Hitchens has a sincere bone in his body and a book attacking anything just fits his public persona. It is just strange that a lot of atheists gripe that people of faith try to impose their beliefs in society, government, etc. However atheists are guilty of the same, their non-belief in God is a belief, which they also try to impose in public and private sectors as this book demonstrates. I don't think there ever will be understanding which should be the upshot of all discourse, if we continue on a path of judgement and insincere criticism.