Claiming Jews are seeking a 'final solution' is outrageous

Claiming Jews are seeking a 'final solution' is outrageous
EDITOR:
I am writing this letter in response to the letter Tuesday, "Slaughter in Middle East is beginning to look familiar," because the content is so outrageous and wrong that is deserves a response of some kind. The writer claimed that this war in the Middle East is the Jews' "final solution" against the Muslims in the region. He continued on about how the Christians are in love with war and Armageddon, and how Christians cease to follow the ways of Jesus by not turning the other cheek.
Let me first say that it is hard to turn the cheek when you are staring down the barrel of a gun. It is even harder to turn the cheek when you have no head to turn it on, since it was cut off or no body because it was blown apart by a rocket.
To compare Israel's actions to Hitler's "Final Solution" is ludicrous. If anything, the actions and words of Islamic fascists have more familiarities than anything the Jews could ever do. There have been more than enough cold blooded murders by terrorists that are against everyone nonMuslim, even killing their own in the process. They want a Nation of Islam, where every nonMuslim is killed or demoted to a lesser status. Sounds like the Aryan race to me.
As far as Condoleezza Rice is concerned, what is she expected to do when the official Hamas charter states that "the so-called peaceful solutions are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement"? Dealing with ideological groups is nothing short of difficult when they are motivated by such a hard line like that.
To address Armageddon, Tuesday's writer says that the Chosen People should lead the world to peace. However, he leaves out the Book of Revelation when the armies march against Israel in a not-so-peaceful end time, when war and destruction is rampant. In the end there will be peace, but not before the greatest battle on earth. And that is something the Christians believe in, following the Bible. I think we all can agree that Jesus would hate seeing such war like we are seeing today. However, when faced with the destruction of one's own country, would Jesus still say to turn the other cheek, or would he say defend yourself?
ALEX MANGIE
Canfield
Cemetery was part of the solution, not the problem
EDITOR:
A July 17 article appeared to cast blame on Resurrection Cemetery for recent flooding in the north Wickcliffe area of Austintown Township, suggesting that a storm water retention pond in the cemetery could not hold all of the runoff water from a June 22 storm. Austintown Township trustees were quoted referring to digging out more of the retention pond and studying whether an additional retention pond should be built in the cemetery.
We are concerned that the article leaves the public with the impression that the cemetery is somehow to blame for the drainage problems that caused the flooding. These same drainage problems existed before the construction of Resurrection Cemetery in 1985. A Sept. 28, 1983, letter from Richard A. Marsico and Associates, consulting engineers, to Hank Krut, then road superintendent of Austintown Township, states that my predecessor gave consent "to install detention basins on the cemetery property to help alleviate any existing drainage problems east of Raccoon Road."
From the time of its creation Resurrection Cemetery has been and will continue to be a good citizen of Austintown Township. We will cooperate in any reasonable way to assist our neighbors with drainage problems even though the cemetery in no way caused or contributed to such problems
JOSEPH S. KUN, Assistant director
Diocese of Youngstown Cemeteries
Youngstown