Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:23 
AM
Subject: End the 
occupation.
 
 
Oct. 7,2003
 
The Editor,
The Globe & Mail
 
Dear Editor:
 
In your editorial:{ " Israel's right to react" Oct. 7}, You object to 
international condemnation of Israeli attack on Syrian territory. You 
ask::
" What would France do if terrorists supported by Spain were blowing 
up cafes in Paris every week or so?" The answer is simple. If France was 
occupying Spanish territory, sending its Apaches to bomb and kill 
daily Spanish men, women and children, demolishing their homes, 
exproprieting their property and subjecting them to daily humiliation, a Spanish 
response would not be surprising.
 
You ask what should be Israel's response? The answer again is simple. 
Israel must abide by international law and terminate completely its 
illegal occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territory that has been 
allowed to stand for 36 years, in defiance of international law and repeated 
Security Council resolutions.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Ismail Zayid.