A Peace Treaty That Has Brought Only Woe
Re “That Sinking Feeling,” Opinion, March 28: Twenty-five years ago, critics of the American-brokered Israel-Egypt peace treaty were scorned as opponents of peace. Intervening events, however, have proved them right. Without the Arab world’s largest army to deter it, Israel has had a free hand to oppress Palestinians, ignore “land for peace” and begin a slow-motion ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
As fury against Israel and America mounts worldwide, the public must ask whether the billions to Israel, along with the treaty-provided billions in bribes to Egypt, purchase anything other than an ongoing framework for terrorism. In truth, the anniversary is an occasion for mourning, not celebration.
Doug Doepke
Claremont
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Leon Sturman (letter, March 30) claims the hardships the Palestinians face from the fence Israel is building are trivial compared to the suffering of Israel from terror bombs. It is one thing to tally the number of those killed and wounded. But how would Sturman measure the suffering of millions of Palestinians living under occupation for more than a generation? How shall we quantify that when deciding “who has it harder”?
Joe Floyd
Redondo Beach
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