Hi Rhonda ... Thanks, as usual, for your latest edition. Just one correction: You refer to last month's gathering in front of the Rady Jewish Community Center as an "anti-Israel demonstration." It was nothing of the sort. It was an event to commemorate the death of some 2000 Palestinians at the hands of the twelfth most power military in the world, the most powerful military in the region, nuclear-armed Israel. By labeling the gathering "anti-Israel," you are suggesting that Palestinian lives are worthless. Certainly not worth commemorating. Of course, I realize that any gathering of this sort is automatically labeled "anti-Israel." Would you refer to some protest against, say, Saudi Arabia's assault on Yemen as "anti-Saudi"? Or a protest against the US's participation in the air war in Syria as "anti-American"? I don't think you would. Obviously, any criticism of Israeli government actions -- other than, say, policies linked to the high price of cottage cheese -- is reflexively labeled "anti-Israel." Dishonest language of this sort very much stifles debate about Israel's actions -- debate Jews such as myself deem critical. The future of the "Jewish State" -- for those who care -- hangs in the balance. Regards ... David Kattenburg www.greenplanetmonitor.net
