Criticism of the criticism

Criticism of the criticism

The article by Michael Rat- ner in the June 13 Vindicator, “Israel deserving of criticism,” is deserving of comment. In order to disguise his anti-Semitism, he has made the U.S. an accomplice to the Israeli attack on the so-called peaceful flotilla that was carrying supposedly humanitarian aid to the inhabitants in Gaza.

The article is filled with great statements to inflame the most gullible. “Flotilla of ships carrying people from more than 50 countries.” So everyone is concerned about the inhabitants of Gaza. “10,000 tons of humanitarian supplies for the beleaguered people.” That amounts to 20 million pounds of supplies for 1.6 million people. How long was that expected to last? Why the refusal to let the supplies be verified as to content?

So the U.S. voted against a resolution in the U.N. for an independent international probe into what happened to a flotilla of six ships and how many people, trying to do something that two countries, Egypt and Israel had said should not be attempted. With Mr. Ratner’s rhetoric, there is no doubt what the results would be.

But let’s ask a pertinent question. Why are not these so-called humanitarians gathering a protest against the Palestinians who are firing rockets and other explosives devices into Israel with the sole aim to kill Israelis? Why are these people from 50 countries trying to aid others whose avowed purpose is to occupy the state of Israel by force and to kill all Jews? Mr. Ratner would be better to wield his poisonous pen in a direction that might be much better in resolving that question.

This is a hatred of a millennia by Palestinians, yet in my association with my Jewish friends over many years, I have not heard a single voice raised in exclaiming a hatred for Palestinians. Why is that?

Leonard J. Sainato, Warren