Sheila Kufert: 'Good Guys' didn’t start war but aim to keep it from happening again

To The Daily Sun,

James Veverka’s letter on July 3 is pure propaganda that Hamas is expert at disseminating in the U.S. and abroad. The UN that James quotes have an anti-Israel bias that has long been proven. It is made up of many countries who hate Jews and Westerners.

His claim of Israel cutting off food, water and energy to Gaza is untrue; Israel has actually protected aid trucks entering Gaza where Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have been stealing most of the food and medicine for their own members; Hamas opposes other Palestinians getting engaged in the humanitarian aid distribution process. Several Palestinians, as well as aid workers, who nevertheless defied Hamas and took part in the distribution of food and medicine in the Gaza Strip were murdered or wounded by the group’s terrorists who also fired a projectile at a UNICEF humanitarian aid convoy that was coordinated with Israeli authorities to reunite children from the northern Gaza Strip with their families in the south. Thanks to the IDF there were no injuries to international aid workers in the attack. That attack and the assassination of the Abu Amra tribe leader by members of Al-Qassam (Hamas’s armed wing) demonstrate that Hamas is determined to destroy the humanitarian situation in Gaza and sacrifice thousands of lives in order to pressure Israel to end the war so they can survive.

James quotes numbers of children and women killed in Gaza but fails to mention that the statistics are supplied by Hamas and the inaccuracies have only recently come to light. According to more recent comparison between terrorists and civilian deaths, it is 1:1 which is remarkable compared to previous wars especially since Hamas hides behind the civilians.

The “Good Guys” are the ones who didn’t start the war but aim to keep it from happening again.

Sheila Kufert

Sanbornton