OPINION:
Gen Zers are ignorant (“Gen Z-ers see Hamas, not Israel, as victims,” web, April 22). Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with Israel decades ago, not because they became suddenly convinced that Jews in Israel were good folk, but because their leaders saw the benefits of peace on their borders.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and the following year the people of Gaza voted in Hamas, a stridently anti-Israel organization whose charter calls for the destruction of not only Israel but all Jewish people. Despite the fact that Gazans voted for Hamas (and the majority of them support the murders Hamas committed on Oct. 7), the secretary-general of the United Nations and numerous others throughout the world persist in calling these people innocent bystanders — while declaring moral equivalence between Hamas and the defenders of Israel.
Multiple peace agreements that would have established a two-state solution have been negotiated between Israel and the Palestinian Authority — and the Palestinian Authority has rejected every single one of them. Why? Because the Palestinians want one state only, and that state contains no Jews. That’s why the best and brightest antisemites in our elite colleges shout “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Muslim countries know all this, and so do non-majority-Muslim nations such as China and Russia, but big power politics finds common cause with the casuistry being expressed globally against Israel. Truth does not matter when Gen Z ignorance meets blind Jew-hatred.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati
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