To the editor:

This is in regard to the letters by Mr. Deamer, Omar, and Hautmann, and the “hate-mail,” replies from a certain group. Their attitude is that Israel can do no wrong, and everything is the Palestinians’ fault. Why is it anyone cannot voice an opinion different from theirs without being inferred/referred to as ignorant or anti-Semitic? Is this so that dissent can be stifled so that theirs is the only voice heard, therefore influencing people to think as they? With their attitude there will never be peace in the Middle East.

Israel has been cited repeatedly by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the U.N. Committee Against Torture for human rights violations and torture. I have read several books by Finkelstein, Shahak, and just finished “Hidden History of Zionism” by R. Schoenman, all Jewish authors. Their descriptions of Israeli atrocities are appalling and clearly lay the blame on the Zionists as the instigators. So Israelis are not as blameless as their apologists would have you believe. Does it make sense that if the news is biased toward Israel then it’s true, but if biased toward the Palestinians then it’s all lies? Anyone who’s been married knows there are always two sides to every issue.

I am voicing my opinion after studying both sides. I am not ignorant or anti-Semitic so please don’t reply with the same old tired rhetoric. And if something is anti-Semitic, does that automatically make it false?

Dana Dyer,

Lawrence