Readers React: Punishing innocent Palestinians doesn’t help Israel

To the editor: When has punishing the innocent along with the guilty ever stopped violence? (“Israeli soldiers raid West Bank refugee camp, destroy home; 2 Palestinians die in clashes,” Nov. 16)

The Israeli raid on a West Bank refugee camp to destroy the home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli, in the process killing two Palestinian protesters, will only justify further resistance.

Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is a physical disaster for the Palestinians and a moral disaster for Israel.

Doris Isolini Nelson, Los Angeles

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To the editor: “Israel has faced a series of small-scale attacks by Palestinians in recent weeks, many of them carried out using weapons as simple as knives. Israeli forces have killed more than 85 Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since Oct. 1, more than half of them shot while or after attacking Israelis.”

And how many Israelis have been injured or died as a result of these small-scale knife attacks? And how many have been injured or died from Palestinians driving motor vehicles into Israelis?

You left out some important background information that your readers deserve to be familiar with. Instead, you twist the reporting and make Israel look bad.

Ed Katzin, Los Angeles

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