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

I can't believe what Candace Swan wrote. "Fill with food, not hate," 8-21-02. In the first place everyone knows who has done about 95% of the destruction. Palestinian water, electricity, cars, homes, businesses and telephone poles purposely damaged. I could write two paragraphs on the destruction. The new national symbol of the Israeli Government ought to be the bulldozer.

It is partly because of the destruction that the Palestinians cannot feed themselves. Cultivated fields torn up. Fruit trees bulldozed. Inability to leave their homes to harvest their fields. Soldiers sometimes not allowing food to be delivered. It is all so terrible and avoidable.

I personally know a Palestinian psychologist. Hatred is not the children's problem. The Israelis teach that with each killing, beating, or destruction of homes. The trouble with the children is fear and despair. Loss of security. In other words, state terrorism.

Doug Willbanks

Status: Published 09/02/02
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