Israel was entitled to reply to the murder of its 1,200 citizens and the kidnappings of more than 200 people by Hamas. But the Israeli army has gone far beyond a reasonable response. It has flattened hundreds of thousands of buildings in Gaza, including 90 percent of the housing. It has caged most of the people in massive desert concentration camps, moving them every few weeks to new sites, while blocking trucks with food and humanitarian aid at the Egyptian border. Millions of people, mostly women and children, face starvation. Heaven help them if the fighting resumes unchecked. They are the hostages of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an un-prosecuted war criminal, also charged with corruption prior to the war in his own country. He is our co-defendant in the court of world opinion, which doesn’t like America very much right now, thanks in large part to our rouge president. Trump is making our democracy a dictatorship like Russia and the former democracy of Israel as fast as possible.

Christopher L. Dornin

Concord