To the editor: No compassionate human being would fail to really feel immense ache over the struggling of individuals within the Gaza Strip.
In his op-ed article, Emad Moussa quotes a dentist from Jaballa as saying that the Israelis try to make the lives of Palestinians in Gaza “sustainably insufferable.” Sadly, he’s not alone in blaming Israel.
Are we forgetting who began this battle with its barbaric assault on Oct. 7, 2023? Are we forgetting who slaughtered about 1,200 individuals? Are we forgetting that Hamas took greater than 240 individuals hostage, together with girls, the aged, youngsters and even a 9-month-old child?
Are we forgetting that Hamas is a terrorist group that not solely deliberate and celebrated this assault, however has pledged to do it once more?
Israel desires peace, however with a assure of security. If on Oct. 8, 2023, the harmless hostages taken into the darkish tunnels of Gaza had been returned and Hamas surrendered, there would have been no battle. Place accountability the place it’s deserved.
Linda Goldfinger, Irvine
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To the editor: A recent news article mentioning President Trump’s suggestion that Palestinians be faraway from Gaza and despatched to Jordan and Egypt states that this might represent a second Nakba, or “disaster,” for Palestinians. The Nakba is described as “their reference to the founding of Israel in 1948, throughout which tens of millions of Palestinians fled or had been pushed from their properties.”
There is no such thing as a credible supply that claims “tens of millions of Palestinians” fled or had been pushed from their properties in 1948. Even essentially the most anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian students don’t put this quantity at greater than 750,000.
Jeffrey Auerbach, Northridge
