In response to David Goldstick’s letter to the editor (“Must target the source of hate and terrorism”), I am pro-Palestinian. I recognize that these suicide bombings are going on and I am 100 percent against them. I am against these bombings for a number of reasons. To begin with these bombings make Palestinians and those who support a Palestinian state look like terrorist supporters. And we are not.

The course of action that these Palestinians should be taking is the same course of action that Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. took. The Israelis would have either one of two choices. Either they back away from the Palestinians and let them have their land back, or they will slaughter Palestinians like they are doing now, but the international community and the United States would be forced to take more direct engagements with the Israelis to force them out of Palestine.

With this said, let us now turn to the whole thing about why we are disliked because we are for Israel. When the Zionists formed the idea of a Jewish state, it was made clear that the land of Israel was to be for them and them alone. All of this was found during the King-Crane Commission in 1919.

The commission found that “the fact came out repeatedly in the Commissions Conference with Jewish Representatives that the Zionists looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine, by various forms of purchase.” When Israel was becoming a state (July 1948) they massacred 250 civilians and forced 70,000 others to flee from villages. Unfortunately, the Israelis continue to do this to this day.

One more comment needs to be made. Camp David II was a sham. If anyone would have read up on it, they would have seen that the 95 percent of land that was supposed to go back to Palestinians was a lie. Israel was only going to give up 77 percent of the land except the Palestinians’ side of Jerusalem and their sacred Mosque.

Also, the issues dealing with the return of refugees was a continual sticking point because Israel wants a predominantly Jewish state, and by letting the refugees back, Israel would not be dominated by Jews as they wished.

I believe that Jews deserve their own state. For more than 2,000 years these people have been a wandering people who have put up with so many hardships that I can understand why they are so tough, and I respect the faith. Many Israelis agree with me on this issue but are afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation by others.

David Grimesy

Senior

Political science