arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

It looks like ethnic cleansing

Recent comments by Akiva Eldar about anti-Semitism were very timely and accurate.

It would be wrong to equate the many protests of the current policies of the Israeli government around the world to anti-Semitism.

The Sharon government has lost sight of the immorality of those practices perpetrated upon the Jewish people prior to, during, and since the foundation of the Jewish state, and now sanctions the same atrocities upon another ethnic people.

The Jewish people have the backing of the world community in their desire to establish and secure a homeland for their people.

What troubles many of us is that this nation was carved from the homes of another people, the Palestinians, whose families had lived for generations in homes that are now occupied by Jewish settlers who have taken these areas by force, inciting hatred in those who are now part of a Palestinian Diaspora.

Can you not see that they, too, will never let this rest, until this dispute is somehow settled with a two-state solution - the Jewish nation and the Palestinian nation reaching accord and living side-by-side, only after negotiation?

There is no ultimate military solution for either side, short of "ethnic cleansing" of one side or the other.

The current policies of the Sharon government, while in reaction to horrific acts of terror, appear to many outside Israel as spiteful acts of ethnic cleansing, intended to kill all Palestinians or drive them further from their homes.

I oppose this. It is wrong. That does not make me or those with similar objections to Sharon policies anti-Semitic.

Bob Hyland

Doylestown, PA

Doylestown, c'est en Israel ???
:o