Letters to Editor: F is for FACTS (which matters)

Historians and academics are straining their senses and intellect to label what’s happening in Gaza as a genocide. However, the columnist gleefully labels it as one. With no facts forthcoming.

May 10, 2024


Dear Editor,
I refer to Anil Netto’s column ‘G is for genocide in Gaza’ (HERALD, April 28). Its disconcerting to read a columnist spinning a yarn with emotional tugging and embellishing it might-bes and whatifs and opinions of politicians to paint a narrative of which the writer has no nerve to say it out loud.

The writer’s anti-Israel sentiment is very evident. If so, it should be backed up with facts, not fantasy.

Historians and academics are straining their senses and intellect to label what’s happening in Gaza as a genocide. However, the columnist gleefully labels it as one. With no facts forthcoming.

Hamas’s terroristic act of killing 1200 was not even mentioned or discussed. Instead that crack is papered over and the retaliation is condemned instead.

A state is worthless if it can’t defend its citizens.

Blame for the current death toll of 35000 can be laid solely on Hamas. One wonders what “strategic planning model” did these terrorist use when deciding to murder 1200 innocent party goers and kidnaping a further 300++. Were they actually expecting a hero’s welcome instead of the current war? In war lives are lost. Fact.

Hamas brought this destruction down on the Palestinians. And the Palestinians themselves are complicit to this destruction by first keeping Hamas in power since 2006 and second CELEBRATING the terroristic attack on October 7, 2023.

This war will end when Hamas is removed. Either by force or voluntarily. Fact.

Fantasies like that weaved by the Sunday Observer columnist is very unhelpful.

AL via email

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