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Gaza massacre

The Israeli massacre in Gaza was a spectacle intended for Israelis, enacted by Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu — Prime Minister aspirants in the coming elections. The death and destruction caused by the aggression are only the side-effects of the cruel drama. Crueller still was the spectacle of the world watching the senseless tragedy draped in protocols and pompous resolutions. The cruellest of all was a man called Shimon Peres, presiding over this mass murder who, we some time ago, honoured with the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Sham Sankar,

Thiruvananthapuram

Mohammed Yahya Ansari,

Meerut

The devastation wrought by the Israeli offensive in Gaza is heartrending. That the international community is a mute spectator to the genocide is unfortunate. It is time humanity opened its eyes.

P.K. Sumitha,

Kannur

All those condemning the defensive action taken by the Israeli government by bombing Hamas militant concentrations in Palestine (Letters, Jan. 14) are probably under the impression that Israel should behave like India where terrorists from Pakistan carried out attacks in Mumbai killing unarmed innocent people, including women and children, without notice. Given Israel’s vulnerable situation — it is surrounded on all sides by hostile neighbours — it can survive only on the basis of an equitable doctrine, that is eye for an eye and hand for a hand.

Shrob Luther,

Ramla

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