And now for this week’s Hitler comparison …
Having read Alex Easton-Brown’s letter last week [“Sure, But Then How Would the Incumbents Get Re-elected?” Feb. 20], I can unequivocally state that calling him an idiot is an insult to all the other semi-informed, knee-jerk liberal, Marin reactors (newly coined term). Son, many of us disagree with Israel’s settlement policies although, it is more complicated than your simple-minded statement. Conservative Israelis might accurately argue that these settlements in the historical Judea and Samaria circa 1700 B.C. are the true Israel while Tel Aviv was little more than a swamp until 1904 A.D. But that’s a discussion for another time.
Perhaps, Alex should read the government elected by the Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas’s Charter:
Article. 7 “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!”
Article. 13 “[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement … Sura 2 (the Cow), verse 120 There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. The initiatives, proposals and International Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.”
These quotes are out of context. Google it and read the whole Charter if you can bear prolix, rambling, verbiage. You really think that if Israel dismantled settlements, Hamas would cease firing rockets and revoke their sworn oath to “kill Jews” as the sacred fulfillment of Allah’s demands? Oh I forgot—they don’t really mean it; just as another guy who wrote a book called Mein Kampf didn’t mean it.
Mark Gainer, Marin
