Mental gymnastics

I hesitated before deciding to comment on Adam Keller’s “Israel 2016: A house divided” (June 2), since it is just a rehash of the same old tired mantras of the extreme-Left BDS brigade, the usual distortions and lies that really aren’t worth the time to respond to in detail.

We all know the rejectionist, racist line of the Arabs and their apologist supporters, and don’t need yet another reiteration. However, Keller’s attempt to recruit Abraham Lincoln to his fantasy world of mirror-image reasoning is worthy of a retort, if only because of the originality of the mental gymnastics involved.

Perhaps it is superfluous to point out that the slaves of the US were kidnapped, transported and imprisoned, something that as far as I am aware, does not apply to the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. The blacks most emphatically did not struggle to expel the whites back to Europe or destroy them by suicidal terror. When they did fight for the North (and South!), they did so with whites and for white-espoused values of liberty and freedom.

There is no similarity whatever between them and their champion, Abraham Lincoln, and the ferocious criminality of extreme Islam and Arab nationalism. ANTHONY LUDER Rosh Pina