Here's a letter to the Editor of the Financial Times. It wasn't published. Grrrr
Dear Sir,
Your correspondent David Gardner may live in Beirut, but he dwells in
a very different world than mine. In his defamatory article on the
Israel-Palestionian peace talks (‘US plays the crooked lawyer in an
Israeli-Palestinian drama,’, April 4), he parades a host of assertions
that no sane observer of the situation would accept as factually
correct. But he makes things worse by his egregious complaint that
Benjamin Netanyahu is blocking the way to peace by refusing to release a
fourth batch of Palestinian prisoners currently serving life sentences
for committing brutal murders of innocent civilians, namely Jewish men,
women, and children.
Over the years, Israel has released hundreds of murderers with blood
on their hands, and the Palestinians have welcomed them home with loud
applause, as heroes and heroines. Do David Gardner and I even live in
the same moral universe? The Palestinian prisoners may suffer for their
heinous crimes, but is that unjust? For that matter, there are hundreds
of Israeli families who still suffer daily from the loss of husbands,
wives, brothers, sisters, and much-loved children. Will the Palestinians
put that right? Do they even care? Do they want peace or another chance
to fulfill their ambition of 66 years: to drive the Jews into the sea
and establish a Palestinian state, as they say every day, ‘from the
river to the sea.’ No more Israel, no more Jews, and badges of honour
for every miserable murderer in sight.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Denis MacEoin
Senior Distinguished Scholar, the Gatestone Institute
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
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