Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 11:00
AM
Subject: " Future Peace."
The Editor,
The Halifax Herald
Dear Editor:
In your editorial { "Future Peace" Feb. 2},
you are blaming the victims, by using a litany of erroneous
arguments.
Contrary to your statement, the Palestinian leadership
have,repeatedly, accepted to recognise the state of Israel and live in peace
with their neighbours, if Israel will withdraw completely from
illegally occupied territory and dismantle all settlements, as
it did in its Camp David agreement with Egypt in 1978. " The Israeli commuters
who live under the constant threat of being blown up on a bus" are the squatters
on illegally expropriated land .
You reproduce the Israeli propaganda speaking of "
inciting violence and hatred" in Palestinian school textbooks. Independent
observers have studied this claim and refuted this charge. Furthermore, you
should look at the hatred and racism enunciated in Israel's Basic Laws and
practiced in Israel, pronounced by Israeli politicians and religous leaders, and
taught in Israeli schools.
If you are genuinely concerned about future peace
in the Middle East, you, and our government, should be calling on
Israel to withdraw completely and
immediately from illegally occupied territory and act in
compliance with international law and repeated Security Council resolutions that
remain contravened for over 34 years.
Yours sincerely
Ismail Zayid, M.D.