Israel's Policy Of Destruction, Death Creates More Enemies
The Capital Times, August 10, 2006
Tsela Barr, Esty Dinur, Betsy Lawrence, David Loewenstein, Jennifer Loewenstein, Ben Manski, Edward Oltman, Marc Rosenthal, Matt Rothschild, Allen Ruff, Judy Strasser
Dear Editor: As Madison area Jews, we condemn the indiscriminate and disproportionate Israeli attack on Lebanon and the Lebanese people. We condemn violence in all its forms, including the Hezbollah attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians within Israel.
It is clear, however, that the Israeli military and political leadership used Hezbollah's latest provocation as a pretext for a major assault on Lebanon. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the current military action was planned more than a year before Hezbollah's recent provocation. Israel exchanged prisoners and took its own share of hostages in the past, and both sides made cross border incursions and carried out prisoner exchanges through negotiations and diplomacy. Until recently, that is. [More]
