Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:05 AM
Subject: Selective Concern for Humanity.
The Editor,
The Globe & Mail
July 12, 2001
Dear Editor:
In your editorial {"Meet the past" July
12}, you quote Elie Wiesel in praise for the Turkish - Armenian effort in
their approach to seek, presumably, an apology for the massacre of Armenians
in 1915. Noticeably, however, Elie Wiesel has never sought to seek a similar
effort from the Israeli leaders to accept responsibility for the numerous
massacres and ethnic cleansing they committed against the Palestinian people.
Similarly, you, rightly, applaud the Polish President for his seeking
forgiveness for his people for the massacre of Jews in 1941.
Is it not time that this selectivity in humanity
be brought to an end, or are the Palestinians less than human in the eyes of
their oppressors?
Yours sincerely
Ismail Zayid, MD.