Letters to the Editor
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obviously Nahid was not the target
but the israelis have to do something - their public demands it. when 9/11 happened we went to war with afghanistan and i'm sure more innocent afghans were killed than guilty. again obviously, lobbing missiles after rockets doesn't work. go in with infantry? more israelis will be killed and it would cause a greater uproar. should israel just take it? put up with a few rockets and ignore its citizens? i'm sure that soccer field would become a semi-permanent military installation. it is true that hamas held to its truce, but it allowed the Islamic Jihad to continue. it would be odd if there weren't collusion - especially since it only seems to fight fatah - perhaps that's because iran sponsors them both. just a word on "the impoverished Palestinian public" - it's not impoverished like, say darfur. the lifespan is over 70 and the birthrate is the highest in the world. these are not the statistics of the impoverished. they have very few *things* however. why? the EU and the oil states support them with food subsidies. so they have enough to eat and the israelis provide them with medical care so they live relatively long(not as long as israelis but longer than other arabs, for instance, the jordanian palestinians who constitute more than half the population of that country)