To the Editor:
Nicholas D. Kristof (“Gaza Boomerang,” column, Jan. 8) claims that Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza is not justified because it has killed more than 660 people as opposed to the 20 Israelis killed by Hamas rockets.
Perhaps the fact that Israel looks to protect its citizens with sirens and bomb shelters while Hamas, in turn, shelters itself by hiding among innocent civilians has more to do with the resulting death tolls than the actual force used.
While Israel goes out of its way to minimize loss of innocent life, it seems that Hamas values its own citizens less than the Israelis do.
Shayna Goldberg
Bergenfield, N.J.
But I would have zeroed in on this bit by Kristof:
I visited Gaza last summer and found many Palestinians ambivalent in a way that Americans and Israelis often don’t appreciate. Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas’s overzealousness and repression. But when they are suffering and humiliated, they find it emotionally satisfying to see Hamas fighting back.
If Arabs are seeking emotional satisfaction - and, I presume, emotional stimulation - then we can forget about peace, coexistence and rational discourse in international relations.
And If Kristof views this as a plausible element in the Middle Easy equation, he's more stupid than the average NYTimes' op-ed columnists.
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Sorry, but that's wrong and an urban legend.
Actually, a quick search on Google regarding the use of pig lard as a deterrent found this:
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enDisplay=view&enDispWho=Article^l3304&enDispWhat=object&enZone=Security&enPage=ArticlePage
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"Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks on the United States forces in the Philippines by Muslim extremists.
So General Pershing captured 50 terrorists and had them tied to posts for execution.
He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the now horrified terrorists. Muslims detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them simply refuse to eat it, while others won't even touch pigs at all, nor any of their by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat, its blood, etc., is to be instantly barred from paradise (and those virgins) and doomed to hell. The soldiers then soaked their bullets in pigs blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The soldiers then dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist's bodies and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc. They let the 50th man go. And for the next forty-two years, there was not a single Muslim extremist attack against Americans anywhere in the world."
Bill ; what u say about pigs in islam is completely fabricated except that its flesh is prohibited ; any blood is prohibited as well :)
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