An appalling letter

Letters

Editor: I was pleased to see the letters from Stephen Aberle, Svend Robinson and Aaron Maté. (Jewish Bulletin, Dec. 6) However, I was appalled by the letter by Max A. Jacobson in Burnaby ("A war of attrition").

Jacobson's demented call for Israel to "be prepared to inflict proportionately higher casualties upon its enemies than they upon Israelis" and his characterization of all Palestinians as "relentless enemies," "regardless of age, sex or political orientation," is pure fascism. How would JWB readers react to a similar letter in the opposite direction, characterizing all Israelis rather than Palestinians as "enemies," regardless of age, sex, etc., to whom concepts of compassion and tolerance must not apply?

Carl Rosenberg
Vancouver

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