Letters to the Editor, 8/19/05
August
19, 2005 12:00 AM
Blame
occupation
The
writer of the Aug. 14 letter "Stop
Teaching Hate" exposes
his own hypocrisy when he turns the killing of Palestinian civilians
by an Israeli soldier upside-down to vilify Muslim and Arab cultures
instead of the occupation. The writer recognizes that Jewish cultural
values are not responsible for the killing of the innocent civilians
but refuses to treat Muslims and Arabs with the same sobriety.
If the
writer truly wishes to see an end to the violence, he should be
against the occupations of Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as
the ghettos and reservations right here in the United States.
Occupation, not culture, is the engine of violence.
Let's hope
that the author is at least correct about the shanda (embarrassment),
so that Israel will be dismantled from within in the face of the
Palestinian resistance, just like it happened in South Africa,
Southern Rhodesia and French Algeria. Racism and hypocrisy about
Muslims, Arabs and people of color are an excuse for more occupation
and violence, not a solution for conflicts.
S.
SALEH WAZIRUDDIN
Shadyside
Shadyside
