Conflict in the Occupied Territories

Ever since he was a child, the average Israeli soldier has known that when Palestinians attack and kill his people, they are heroes. Is it any wonder, when he gets the chance, he responds in kind? “This blow is for my dead mother, this one for my crippled neighbor, this for the child you brained, and this for your refusal to accept half a loaf and let me live in peace with mine.” Truly, I don’t condone their actions, but the real story is that there hasn’t been a wholesale massacre. That’s what any other people would have done.

MARY HARTT

Los Angeles