Many false ideas in Mr Heilpern’s article. But I would say this; hardly anybody is trying to understand the complex Palestinian issue, nor to speak out against their radical governance who put them backwards. Of being ‘sacrificed’ by their ‘leaders’ and other Arab extreme regimes (listen to their interviews). It’s all out there if people care to understand and possibly help.
But it is much easier to only talk about evil Israel. How everything is because of Israel. Of how it is okay to justify slogans with clear genocidal intent. Calls for violence (Intifada). Slogans used by terrorists, who openly declare their wish to annihilate all Jewish people, and sadly repeated at ‘Love and Peace’ demonstrations. Hiding behind words like ‘Zionist’, as if it is not the basic right of Jews to live there. Look it up. Including the 1947 UN resolution that followed.
These kinds of ‘talks’ do nothing to progress any Palestinian issue. Neither do they solve the Middle East’s long conflict. Concentrating on one side alone does not progress peace. It does though, bring up and promote hateful feelings. Against Jews and other Israelis living in Israel and around the world. Call it what you want.
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. 
