It is disheartening to see people who support Hamas. Hamas uses human shields, human atrocities and human hostages as a tool for destroying Jews. Hamas must be destroyed or will build bigger bombs with more range, and the Arabs as well as the Jews, will have no peace.

Israel is not accountable for the death toll prior to Oct 7, nor now. The allied forces killed many a civilian in the righteous defeat of Germany. Collateral damage is nothing to make light of. However, there is no way to undertake war without it and this war is necessary.

Again, 1,400 Jewish innocent people raped, burned and killed, in their homes. Children, as well as elders, spirited away to be tortured and raped, valued simply for the care that Israelis feel for them.

Hamas is the enemy. Not Israel. Hamas was voted in the last free election in Gaza in 2006. Israel hasn’t operated in Gaza for 17 years. Hamas immediately killed their political foes. All Arab.

If you want peace, if you want justice, then there cannot be peace until the hostages are released. The dismantling of Hamas will happen, negotiated, or it will be done with bullets. The Palestinians’ fate is in their hands.

They have a choice. Israel is not an apartheid state. There are Arab judges, Arab officers in the military and Arab members of the Knesset (Israel’s house of representatives).

If Palestinians want peace, they need to join with those who oppose Hamas.

Period.

Richard Feit

Cortez