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Sunday, 10 January 2010 01:00

Regarding the letter from Jonas Moffat on Dec. 27 ("A Peace Message"): While it may be so that some Palestinians only want peace, their message has been drowned out by 60 years of violence against the people of Israel. Mr. Moffat neglects to point out that the Palestinians invented such terror tactics as suicide bombings, airline hijacking, blowing up buses with women and children aboard and firing deadly rockets into population centers.

If the Palestinians want only peace, why did they put Hamas in power, a group whose primary mission is the destruction of Israel? Why was their response to Israel's offer of 95 to 97 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza met with an intifada?

When Israel left Gaza, the Palestinians had a chance to start building a peaceful and productive society. Instead, they chose war. Let's hope that if there truly are Palestinians who want peace with Israel, they become greater in numbers than the great majority who for the past 60 years have ceaselessly striven for Israel's destruction.

RICHARD LEVINE
Squirrel Hill

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