To the editor:

This latest from Cal Thomas (May 30, Journal-World) is just too much. It’s high time you pulled this column. I quote: “The final solution that Hitler failed to achieve, but that his Arab disciples see as their mandate.” The Journal-World should be ashamed to print such hate-mongering.

Cal Thomas decries evil ceasing to be a concept. You want evil, Mr. Thomas? How’s this for evil?

When the present leader of Israel, Ariel Sharon, was general, one Israeli woman was murdered. In retaliation, Sharon ordered whole innocent families massacred. I heard him describe this without excuse or apology on the PBS special “The 50 Years War.” The fact is, three to four times as many Palestinian noncombatants, including children, have been killed over the years as Israeli noncombatants.

Yes, the Palestinians have a lot of hatred toward Israelis. In 1917, the Jewish population of the region, which is now Palestine/Israel, was 8 percent. The ruling British allowed Jewish immigration until 1947; when the U.N. established the state of Israel, it was 30 percent. After 1917, Jewish immigration increased even more rapidly.

Through the years, Israel has taken more and more until now the Palestinians are willing, for the sake of peace, to settle for only 22 percent of what had been their country.

I could go on about the Israeli government’s past and present injustices to the Palestinians, but then this letter would be too long to publish.

Dianne Hofmann,

Lawrence