Letter to the Editor

Silence is deafening

By Gerald N. Jacobowitz, Cornwall-on-Hudson
Posted 12/8/23

The Israel-Hamas War has generated great emotions of anger, sympathy, condemnation and sadness. The cause unfortunately does not always rest on historical fact or empirical evidence.

One thing …

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Letter to the Editor

Silence is deafening

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The Israel-Hamas War has generated great emotions of anger, sympathy, condemnation and sadness. The cause unfortunately does not always rest on historical fact or empirical evidence.

One thing is crystal clear emphasized by silence that is deafening. Where are Saudi Arabia? Jordan? Egypt? Bahrain? Morrocco? Iraq? Abudabi? Where is the humanitarian aid from these Arab countries? The southern gate to Gaza is in Egypt under Egypt and Hamas control. Why didn’t they get together, join with their fellow Arab Egyptians and provide an open, safe and direct process for Palestinians to use? Why did it take four (4) weeks for 80 truckloads of aid to go into Gaza from Egypt? Why couldn’t they airlift? Parachute?

An answer is clear when you consider the evidence. No action to help or aid the Palestinians in Gaza by their own coreligclonists by their own Arab brothers because those brothers are willing to allow the Palestinians suffer rather than give them support and aid, let alone a safe exit path and temporary settlement.

It is easier to blame it on Jewish people.

Gaza was won in the 1967 war by Israel and handed over to the PLO in 2005. That was a huge gesture for peace by Israel.

The Palestinian rejection of the Oslo accords, the incompetence of Yasser Arafat as a PLO leader; the takeover of Gaza by Hamas, the absence of any Palestinian opposition to Hamas from 2007 and the apparent nothingness by the Arab countries while Hamas armed, trained and solidified its terrorist policies are the essential and direct causes of the Gaza Palestinian conflict for which Jews are being unfairly attacked, vilified, threatened and blamed.

Look at the facts. The Arab silence speaks volumes.