To The Daily Sun,
Tim Lang, a New Hampshire state senator, took an all-expenses paid free trip to Israel recently to meet with Israeli officials. He was one of 250 state senators across the U.S. who took this trip.
Now, Sen. Lang has every right to do so, but I also have the free speech right to criticize his doing so.
To travel to Israel to meet and hear Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes is reprehensible in my opinion.
By being part of this “meeting," he is supporting a leader and a regime that is committing a genocide in Gaza and is now pursuing with vengeance the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in both the brutally occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem.
To all who read this: are upwards of 20,000 dead children and babies enough for them to condemn this horrific slaughter of basically defenseless human beings in Gaza? Many human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say Israel is committing genocide.
It must be so simple for people to support such a slaughter when Palestinians have been so demonized and dehumanized by Israel.
No, Sen. Lang, as a human rights activist, I stand with the Palestinian people. It must be so easy for Netanyahu and supporters of Israel to say that it's all Hamas' fault. An Israeli military leader has called Palestinians "animals." Thus, if so, it's morally acceptable to kill such "animals," including babies.
I say it should be morally unacceptable to support such a state.
William Thomas
Manchester
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