Hamas victory [Archives:2006/919/Letters to the Editor]

David L. Cade
dlcwriter25@msn.com
www.davidlawrencecade.com
I believe my country, the U.S., should work with Hamas to attain peace in the region. I have long realized how terribly the people of Palestine were wronged by the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.

There is no denying the Holocaust. But what happened in 1948 was so utterly historically wrong and can be likened to a corrupt judge who learns that one party (the Jews) have been wronged (the Holocaust) and tells his bailiff to go take land from an innocent third party (Palestine) and give it to the injured party (the Jews) as their compensation for what they suffered from the criminal (the Nazis).

A good judge does not force an innocent third party to suffer grievous loss of land to make amends to any injured individual, even though the Jews had coveted Palestine for so many centuries, based on those spurious claims in the Old Testament.

Thus, Hamas is simply the result of the great wrongs suffered by the Palestinian people since 1948 and Hamas deserves a chance to represent their country.
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