Note from The Echo
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events.
This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the abuse of police power. Our ongoing commitment to publishing different, sometimes strong opinions, many that we don’t agree with, is why you’ll find the conflicting and contradictory opinions of our readers here. They aren’t our own opinions.
We can’t publish everything we receive, some submissions are not based in fact at all, some are defamatory or too offensive or just too crazy. But while some readers don’t think opinions they disagree with should be given any space in The Echo, we don’t. We publish opinions we disagree with, and we hope everyone will read them and consider their worth, because we believe that this is an essential part of a healthy democracy – to scrutinise ideas even if we choose to discard them.
The side of kindness’?
David Heilpern, over the thousands of years Jewish people have suffered at the hands of the endless sickness called antisemitism, many books have been written desperately attempting to explain why such a phenomenon exists. Not one has successfully determined a reason.
You, however, have managed to figure it out. Congratulations!
Your reason; it’s Israel’s fault. Israel in its fight to eradicate Hamas is encouraging antisemitism. Israel is doing everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties, while Hamas terrorists send thousands of rockets and fire RPGs from schools, hospitals and residential homes. But when civilians, including children are killed because Hamas ensures this, Israel is encouraging antisemitism.
Throughout the pogroms of Europe, the Easter and Christmas Day massacres of Jews each year throughout the Dark Ages, the Holocaust itself, were Jews to blame?
Tell me, who was to blame for the hundreds of thousands of German dead during the Allied bombings? The Allies, or the Nazis? David, if there is one thing that does encourage antisemitism, it’s a self-loathing Jew.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
