This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The Israel rules

America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.

Read other letters about this article

  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 06:25 PM

    Rewarding Hamas

    peeps1:

    "I am not "rewarding" Hamas. By your logic, the only thing any thinking or feeling person can do is support Isreal or they are contributing to the death of children."

    There are not only two choices.

    Of course you are rewarding Hamas. They use their own children as human shields precisely so the American Left will bemoan the loss of innocent lives. If people made it clear that there could be no negotiations or concessions of any kind unless and until Palestinians stopped deliberately placing their OWN people in the line of fire, they'll just keep doing it.

    I'm wondering if there is any other time in recorded history where a group of people has used their own children as human shields. I can't think of any. Can you?

Most Active Letters Threads

631

Obama's exceedingly familiar justifications for escalation

The "new" approach to Afghanistan touted by White House officials seems quite old
543

The crazy, irrational beliefs of Muslims

Tom Friedman explains the real problem: stupid Muslims think the U.S. is about war and aggression.
437

The face of rotted Washington

Evan Bayh demands more debt-financed war - fought by others - while boasting that he's a stern "deficit hawk."
206

Bigotry wins in Switzerland

By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world
148

Mike Huckabee's fatally bad judgment

Brutality by another Huck-pardoned criminal suggests the 2012 GOP hopeful listened more to pastors than prosecutors

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon