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Israel must not drive
Palestinians from Gaza
Since President Biden’s initial declaration of unconditional support for Israel, Israel’s forces have killed over 18,000 Gazans, 70% women and children. Facing growing international condemnation, administration officials have tried to hide behind ineffectual pleadings to Israel to reduce civilian casualties, but the continued provision of a flood of U.S. weapons has only fueled the slaughter. The U.S. veto of a recent Security Council cease-fire proposal has exposed U.S. complicity in the relentless carnage.
Claiming to target Hamas, Israeli forces have actually destroyed much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure. Fuel, electricity, fresh water and food have been choked off. Housing, medical facilities and sanitation infrastructure have been targeted and destroyed creating wastelands of rubble that could be used to justify the forced displacement of the entire population. That would constitute a monstrous crime of genocidal ethnic cleansing which America must not tolerate.
Michael Dunlap
Oakland
Advocating violence
is never OK
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Re: “How university leaders erred on free speech” (Page A7, Dec. 12).
According to David French in his opinion piece, the Supreme Court has ruled that in the absence of an immediate threat, our government cannot punish a person who advocates violence.
If he is correct, then our First Amendment needs to be changed to prohibit any form of speech advocating violence to people or the environment now or in the future. Just because you may strongly disagree with someone does not mean that you have the right to advocate that they be harmed. Instead, you should work toward peacefully resolving issues through education, logic and examples.
Burt Milburn
Antioch
