President Biden,
Thank you for your 11/1/23 response to my previous comments. Thank you also for working to get relief for the citizens of Gaza.
My wife and I also agree with your statement that we must ALWAYS condemn terrorism (my emphasis). Condemnation of Hamas is widespread, yet one rarely hears of the Jewish terrorism that played a key role in Israel’s establishment. According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, Jewish terrorist organizations such as the Irgun and the Stern Gang committed at least 31 massacres of Palestinian civilians, including the infamous April, 1948 Deir Yassin massacre of about 100 women, children and old men. They did this to terrorize hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into fleeing so their property could be confiscated for the future Jewish state.
To this day, illegal Jewish settlers terrorize Palestinian farmers and villagers with impunity, carrying out anti-Palestinian pogroms - true terrorism - protected or tolerated by Israel's army and border patrol. And the so-called Israel "Defense" Force regularly terrorizes Palestinian civilians with night raids into their homes and hype-violent incursions into their cities and villages, notably in Jenin, where the "IDF" has run wild in its killing sprees.
SO I'M CALLING YOUR BLUFF, MR. BIDEN: YOU SAY WE MUST ALWAYS CONDEMN TERRORISM. WHEN ARE YOU ALSO GOING TO CALL OUT AND CONDEMN THIS AND ALL OF THE TERRORISM ISRAEL AND ITS FOUNDERS HAVE COMMITTED, AND CONTINUE TO COMMIT, AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF PALESTINE?
You say, "Watch me." We certainly are, Joe - and so is God.
Sincerely,
Gregory M. DeSylva