{"id":506712,"date":"2010-04-02T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011509482_standingupforgaza.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:31:54","slug":"standing-up-for-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/506712","title":{"rendered":"Standing up for Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Column a rant; think about Hamas rule over strip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Ramsey has a memory problem about Israel and Gaza [\u201cStanding up for Gaza\u2019s people,\u201d Opinion, March 31]. Israel turned over Gaza four years ago. Hopes were higher for peace.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas rules that area, lobs rockets that have killed at least one Israeli only days ago and teaches its children it is OK to kill not just Israelis but Jews all around.<\/p>\n<p>As to the young lady killed by the Israelis: That issue never escaped Israel\u2019s concerns. However, how many Arabs or Palestinians have ever been tried even once for the long list of atrocities visited upon not only their Jewish neighbors, but in venues around the world \u2014including schoolchildren in Ma\u2019alot?<\/p>\n<p>The column repeated the rant of people who just showed up to check things out. On the numerous occasions when Israeli heads of state made very public commitments to the Palestinians, they were met with jihads of varying kinds or wars of attrition. No doubt Israel can make negotiations work with Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority \u2014but can Hamas and its minions do it too?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Joseph Honick, Bainbridge Island<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Qassam rockets killed at least 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Ramsey\u2019s column repeats the lie that the Qassam rockets fired at Israel (more than 6,000) \u201chadn\u2019t killed any Israelis, but they might have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rockets fired by these \u201chotheads\u201d \u2014presumably the same hotblooded types who threw fellow Palestinians off Gazan rooftops, blindfolded and handcuffed, during Hamas\u2019 bloody coup in June 2007 \u2014 have in fact killed more than a dozen Israelis and wounded scores more. Less than two weeks ago, a rocket attack from Gaza proved fatal as a Thai farmworker was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Downplaying the rockets\u2019 deadliness by calling them \u201chomemade pipe-bomb-type rockets\u201d obscures the fact that the launching of these rockets at civilians is not only a war crime, but also a weapon of terror that has traumatized thousands of Israeli children and adults, in addition to murdering at least 14 people on Israeli soil.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 David Brumer, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Column a rant; think about Hamas rule over strip Bruce Ramsey has a memory problem about Israel and Gaza [\u201cStanding up for Gaza\u2019s people,\u201d Opinion, March 31]. Israel turned over Gaza four years ago. Hopes were higher for peace. Hamas rules that area, lobs rockets that have killed at least one Israeli only days ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}