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Editor,

The NY Times deleted my comment last week that Israel is a terrorist state.

Read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." It documents thoroughly how every massacre of the American Indians was blamed on the victims, the same logic the USA used in Vietnam, the same logic Israel uses against the Palestinians, the same logic the USA is using against Russia.

No context is ever reported, only the rockets, the rockets, the rockets. You try living under a brutal -- and I mean brutal -- military occupation in the West Bank, your land stolen, your water stolen, your dignity stolen for 70 years. You try living in the Gaza Strip, under siege, unable to leave, periodically bombed under cynical pretenses with 500-lb bombs that level entire apartment blocks, massacring children and other innocents.

Israel arrogantly claims its right to exist. What about the Palestinians' right to exist? The Holocaust was a terrible crime, but it does not justify taking the Palestinians' land, kicking Palestinians out of their homes, treating the Palestinians with cruelty and contempt.

The Palestinians sent zero European Jews to Hitler's gas chambers, and yet the Palestinians had their land taken away from them by foreign powers without their consent and given to the Zionists.

I am disgusted and appalled that my country, the USA, gives $3 billion in military aid to Israel every year to commit these horrendous crimes against the Palestinians.

Read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," then get back to me.

Re: "Blasts Kill 16 Seeking Haven at Gaza School" (7/25/2014)