Thank you for publishing Rabbi Zierler’s wonderful My View response on the Israel-Hamas war (“Genocide charge? Again?,” River Reporter, August 1-7). It really pains me when you run …
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Thank you for publishing Rabbi Zierler’s wonderful My View response on the Israel-Hamas war. It really pains me when you run ignorant and hateful views on Israel and the Middle East. This was the exception.
If the River Reporter has no one knowledgeable to fact check your letters to the editor, then you should refrain from delving into difficult international issues. Perhaps you should stick to fire stories and barn issues.
Mitchell Lewis
Narrowsburg, NY
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DKR
This is the second letter printed in the RR that has accused me of being unfactual or dishonest, and yet neither letter produces any specific allegation of a factual misstatement I have made. There are plenty of contradictory news sources that can be cited, but there can be no debate about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe of tens of thousands of dead and millions displaced and suffering in Gaza as a result of Israel’s assault. We are given the justification of the attack on October 7th, where several hundred Israelis were killed. But this response goes well beyond the base motives of revenge or deterrence. The attack on the very essentials of life, the withholding of food and water, the destruction of infrastructure, signals broader goals- the erasure of an entire group of people who have been a thorn in the side of an unfettered Jewish state.
If Israel is unhappy with the term genocide being attached to this program, then they can quickly bring the killing to an end.
I am also accused of being hateful, when I’m quite certain the only ideological position I’ve articulated is that all people are equal, and that all people should have equal rights, and equal access to justice. How can this position be called hateful? What does it say when there are powerful voices within our society who disparage the most fundamental principles of our nation?
DKR
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