Change the “our” to “my”, and you have it correctly. Your Islamist columnist is practicing his obfuscation and tribal myopia again on your comment page soapbox. His statement that “Israel lives matter, Arab ones don’t”, couched in neutral language, blaming “our political and media establishment”, is as cowardly as it is untrue. This is not an Arab, or even Islamist issue –it is a power struggle between various factions in Palestine, or more specifically, Gaza and environs.
It is regrettable and sad that innocent people, children especially, are caught up in the conflict, on both sides, but the inescapable fact remains that the Hamas rockets keep falling on Israel, and they are often fired from within the civilian population and even in close proximity to school and mosques. No one has forced Hamas to hide within the Gaza population while they lobby rockets at Israeli civilians indiscriminately. That is not war; it is terrorism and intentional murder of civilians!
Your columnist, Rosie Dimanno has a more sensible view, saying that “since Palestinians made the fatal error of electing a radical Islamist organization over the corrupt devil that they knew, they doomed themselves to lives of crushing wretchedness. These are the consequences.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself, Rosie.
The poor Palestinian population is caught between “the devil and the deep blue sea”. This cancer must be excised permanently, or it will metastasize and spread its malevolent philosophy throughout Palestine, and ensure that peace will have no chance ever. Hamas is a terrorist organization, period. Haroon Siddiqui need not soft-pedal or obfuscate these facts.
I have on several occasions taken issue with Mr Siddiqui’s writings in your pages, in letters to the Star editors. While you quite often publish my various comments and pontifications, and thus must see some value in them, you have so far refused to publish anything I write in response to Mr. Siddiqi’s musings, no matter how measured and diplomatically I write. Your Editorial today seems to criticize the Government and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff for stating what is an unequivocal fact: that “Hamas is a terrorist organization, that Israel has a right to defend itself and that Hamas is [mainly] to blame for the conflict.”
Could it be that Mr. Siddiqui reflects your editorial point of view? Just asking.
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