One-sided
views" Letter by Ismail Zayid.
The Chronicle Herald.
One-sided
views
The
In your Jan. 26 editorial "MacKay’s foray," you display the one-sided views that
have become characteristic of those expressed by our political leaders and
media in relation to the
Regardless of the views and statements made
by Mahmoud Zahar, which you
easily castigate, there is not a single word about Israel’s
oppressive, illegal occupation of Palestinian land and its brutal practices,
including extrajudicial assassination, holding thousands of prisoners without
charge or trial, torture, daily humiliation, demolition of thousands of homes
and expropriation of property for the creation of illegal colonies
(settlements). All these actions are in violation of the Fourth Geneva
Convention and are identified by international law as war crimes.
As for Mr. MacKay’s
foray, he declined to meet with Mr. Zahar because of
his extremist views, but was happy to meet with the Israeli deputy prime
minister, Avigdor Lieberman, whose policy calls for
the completion of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland,
including even the Muslim and Christian citizens of the state of Israel.
Is Israeli extremism, in the views of your
editorialist, acceptable and its war crimes inconsequential?
Ismail Zayid, MD,