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Written by Doug Willbanks Doug Willbanks
Published: 22 June 2002 22 June 2002
To the Editor,

Your editorial of 6-20-2002, "Gone up in Jerusalem smoke," made some very good points. What is lacking however is the explanation of all the discouragement and brutality endured by the average Palestinian citizen for years. And especially the last 2 years.

The Israeli Government should have followed UN Res. 242 in 1967, as they are required to. This means that they would have gotten out of the territories and settled the refugee problem. The United States should have seen to it that they did this. Instead, we not only did nothing, but rewarded them with billions of our tax dollars and military equipment. The effect of this was the aggressive settlement building and the armed might to protect this illegal colonization.

Time is of the essence. The settlements grow every day. Palestinian self defense against this will also.

Doug Willbanks

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