Why stay in Gaza?
Re “Israeli Forces Pour In to Evict Settlers,” Aug. 17
The modern state of Israel has no more right, as some of the protesting settlers say, to “control the Biblical Israel” than the modern state of Italy has to reestablish the Roman Empire. What I can’t understand is why the settlers want to remain in fortified enclaves, surrounded by barbed wire, guard towers and hostile territory. I should think they would find that to be too reminiscent of concentration camps.
RON SAMUELS
Studio City
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