In response to a recently published letter, I would like to point out that it is not so much the Israelies who do not get along with their neighbors. From the very beginning when the United Nations ruled on the partition of Palestine and the formation of the State of Israel, most Muslims swore to drive the Jews to the sea on a trail of blood.
Of course this hostility was exploited and fueled first by former German Nazis, who found their way to Palestine after the second World War, and then by the USSR, which made most of the Arab States its allies against the US and of course against the States of Israel.
Both Arabs and Jews were used as pawns in a game of control between two super powers, which never wanted peace in the region, and supplied both parties with weapons to fuel hatred. The United States still does not want peace and has, in practical terms and if one looks beyond the rhetoric and the political show, blocked all real initiatives to implement peace for decades, because it knows that a divided region”s resources, such as oil, are easier to grab and control.
Let”s not forget history, and let”s not make people who are victims the guilty party! Should the Israelies let themselves be massacred to have the world”s sympathy? Why is it that history is always turned upside down, whether it is the history of native people here in the US, who were called savages and hostile just because they were defending themselves and trying to keep their country, or any other victims of aggression and abuse?
As far as Israel being a welfare recipient, should it be left defenseless while surrounded by enemies and should a new holocaust, at the end of the most extreme elements of Muslim fundamentalism, be repeated?
Should the Jews be left without support, without friends, without a place to go, as they were before, during and just after WWII, before the State of Israel was formed?
Raphael Montoliu
Lakeport
