Letter Of The Day

The Feb. 26 letter from Robert Zeis Jr. (“Israel Has Worked for Peace”) was racist in its claim that Palestinians are a “politically created race of people that never existed until the 20th century.”

This racist lie has been repeatedly debunked by numerous Israelis such as Benny Morris and Tom Segev, and by American Jews such as Norman G. Finkelstein and Albert Einstein.

The Romans named this region “Palestinia” and the people of the region “Palestinians” in the time of Herod (39 B.C.).

It was referred to as Palestine for centuries earlier than this.
A fitting retort to this lie is that the Palestinians are the only direct descendants of the 12 apostles.
— John Hauptman, Ames.

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