To the Editor:

Israel has been  savagely slaughtering, starving, and relentlessly bombing two million  Palestinians since October 7, 2023.   At least 60,000 Palestinians killed (including 13,000 children), 145,000 wounded, perhaps hundreds of thousands buried and uncounted beneath the  bombed out rubble of their homes.  Israel blames Hamas (which, by the way, was funded and encouraged by Israel).  Blaming  Hamas for Israel’s genocide is a  smokescreen and excuse used  to justify  the  ethnic cleansing and elimination  of all  Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.    This brutal and illegal ethnic cleansing started with the forced expulsion of 800.000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948 (the Nakba).   Israel violently evicted Palestinians from their lands and stole farms, homes, and property.   The displaced Palestinians were forcibly relocated to refugee camps like Gaza or forced out of Israel altogether.   It was ugly.  The Israeli military (many of whom were Haganah and Irgun terrorists)  would go to Palestinian homes at noon and say: “We will be back at 5pm.  If you are still here we will kill you.”   The Palestinians  fled and to this day are not allowed to return to their homes.  Tragically,  Israel has become a pariah nation despised by the world.  For Israel to survive, it must abandon it’s  deep commitment to racist Zionism, ethno-supremacy, and the apartheid state. Israelis must fully embrace those people they are currently  so viciously trying to exterminate.   Israelis and those who supported, financed, and encouraged this genocide must be held accountable for their actions.  Peace and reconciliation can only  follow if justice prevails.  (To learn more truth go to electronictifada.net)

Eli Kassirer