From: Ismail Zayid
To: Halifax Herald
Sent:
Subject: Israeli extremism is fine?
The Editor,
The
Dear
Editor:
In your
editorial, {"MacKay's Foray" Jan. 26}, you display the one-sided
unbalanced views that have become characteristic of the views expressed by our
political leaders and media, in relation to the
Regardless
of the views and statements made by Mr. Zahar, which
you easily castigate, there is not a single word about the oppressive Israeli
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 home 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 to Mr MacKay's foray, he declined to meet with Mr. Zahar for his extremist views, but was happy to meet with
Israeli deputy prime minister, Mr. Lieberman, whose policy calls for
the completion of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from thir homeland, including even the Muslim and Christian
citizens of the state of Israel.
Is Israeli
extremism, in the views of your editor, acceptable and its war crimes
inconsequential?
Yours
sincerely,