Editor,
I’m sure the former Foster City mayor, Richa Awasthi, is a fine and understanding person, and in a perfect world, her annoyance at obstreperous students creating a hostile school environment would be well placed.
Editor,
I’m sure the former Foster City mayor, Richa Awasthi, is a fine and understanding person, and in a perfect world, her annoyance at obstreperous students creating a hostile school environment would be well placed.
However, if she had spoken to some of the activists, many of whom were Jewish students, she might have moderated her criticism. They were protesting U.S. support for what is seen by most of the rest of the world as an ongoing genocide of the Palestinian population. We as a nation actually vetoed mandatory ceasefires that would have enabled the return of POWs and hostages taken during the attack by the Hamas organization. Of course, the attack was a war crime in anyone’s book, but the Hamas group was actually paid and protected by Israel for many years, to enable the present state of affairs to continue, by “having no one reasonable to talk to” on the Palestinian side.
The good and earnest students may be loud and unreasonable in their behavior but, our continued enabling of genocide is far more unreasonable and unforgivable.
Mike Caggiano
San Mateo
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Thanks for your letter, Mr. Caggiano, but for the umpteenth time, you’re promoting a false narrative that the US and Israel are enabling genocide. If I recall correctly, the U.S. vetoed ceasefires because the U.N. didn’t include calls for an unconditional release of all hostages, or unfortunately, bodies of hostages. Why should Hamas receive a get out of jail free card for their massacre and hostage-taking? The bottom line is that Hamas and their supporters made their bed and so they had to lie in it until President Trump gave them an out in negotiating an end to the war. If Hamas doesn’t want to abide by the agreement, more power to Netanyahu to finish his mission.
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