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Thursday, 05 November 2009

Mail call: A Toronto Star reader expresses his “love” for Israel:

A ‘real’ human rights issue

Re:Harper is far from extreme,

Letter, Nov. 4

Frank Dimant says, "the demonizing and delegitimizing of the world's only Jewish state, while ignoring real human rights issues all over the world, is not an acceptable form of critique."

So according to him, the collective punishment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government is not a "real" human rights issue. And because it is not a "real" human rights issue, it's not worth pointing out the fact that Israel is committing a war crime with its policy of collective punishment against the Palestinian population. It is a war crime as stated in the Geneva Conventions.

Chirvan Edross, Oakville

In return, I express my love for the above:

Borrowing a page from the Hamas/Iran playbook, letter-writer Chivran Edross decries the “collective punishment” Israel is supposedly meting out to the Palestinians--a “war crime,” he fumes. About the “collective punishment” Israel’s enemies hope to mete out to the Jewish state by wiping it off the map, however, Edross is strangely silent.

Odd how concepts like “collective punishment” and “disproportionate force”--and, for that matter, “war crimes”--seem to apply only to Israel, and never to the other side.

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