Letter: America hated because it favors Israel, not Palestinians

America hated because it favors Israel, not Palestinians
A few days ago the United States characterized as unfair the United Nations committee report concerning the disproportionate Israeli force against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. America has always stood by Israel and justifiably so.

Jews have for centuries been unfairly subjected to all sorts of persecutions and most recently to the Holocaust.
The image of the Jew in western literature from Shakespeare to Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Celine and others is replete with anti-Semitic sentiment.

Just read “The Merchant of Venice.” In spite of the horrendous indignities suffered by them, the Jews, ironically have made remarkable contributions to humanity.

They have distinguished themselves in all the sciences and the arts.

Yet, recently, they seem to have been the single most important cause of great conflict between two civilizations.

If America is hated in the world today, it is because of shortchanging the Palestinians.

That has caused extreme anger in the Muslim world and has become the main source of terror that may never subside unless we rein in Israeli excesses, such as the continued expropriation of Palestinian land under the lame excuse of natural growth.

Suggestion: take all troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, put one-third of them between the Israelis and Palestinians, another third in Darfur, send George Clooney, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to do their publicity in Hollywood, and the world will run without that much frightening lurching.

In the meantime, turn the TV sets on and teach Muslims the virtues of freedom, even at the expense of some corruption.

Let’s come to our senses.

Paul Kouidis
Auburn