Zionist Response to John Hauptman

Israel is doing quite well

Published: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:05 PM CDT

John Hauptman’s letter tells more about John Hauptman than it does about Israel. The only thing wrong with Israel’s Gaza incursion was it did not do it sooner.

After receiving more than 2,000 rockets fired at them from Gaza over five years, Israel finally attempted to put a stop to the rockets and protect its own citizens from the Islamic terrorists.

Despite Hauptman’s opinion and the actions of some of the anti-Israel leftist zealots, Israel is surviving and doing well. It is a good country, just in a bad neighborhood. Neighboring Arab countries are plagued by high rates of illiteracy, second-class citizenship for women, lack of scientific or technological training, the absence of civil liberties, very low per capita incomes in those that have no oil, poor distribution of wealth in those that have oil — and not a functioning democracy among them.

Hauptman, like his Islamic fundamentalist friends, offers nothing constructive, just hate.

Sheldon Rabinowitz

Des Moines