Letters to the Editor

The end of the Sharon era Once despised by a generation of Israelis, Ariel Sharon became a venerated father figure. His passing from the political scene leaves the future of the Middle East in even greater doubt. By Aluf Benn [2006-01-07]

• Special rules for Israelis is another form of anti-Semitism

  Imagine that! The Jewish nation chooses a leader, just like the leaders of every other country, committed to the security of the nation. How dare they? They are just supposed to go meekly to the slaughter.

  Even in his critics most brutal estimation, Sharon is "responsible" for the deaths of a tiny fraction of the numbers killed by Yasir Arafat, the Assads of Syria, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia, Mubarak and Nasser in Egypt, even George Bush of America. Where's the outrage about that?

  This is anti-Semitism. Spare me the blather about Jews accusing every critic of anti-Semitism. There has never been a time and place throughout the last 2000 years that critics of Jews' behavior were not anti-Semitic. It is hard to believe that support of virulently anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic, mysogynistic people (Palestinians) would qualify as a cause of the Left, but since they openly call for the destruction of world Jewry (what is left of it after the Europeans destroyed a third of it within living memory), the Left can overlook such trifles.

  Sorry, the days of Jews getting slaughtered without retaliating are long gone. A pity for all the anti-Semites among us.

  -- Amy Tuteur, MD
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