The Star’s View: This is not who we are.

Re Netanyahu brings his one-state plan

to Washington, Nov. 14 Tony Burman’s column is irresponsible in the extreme. It’s factually wrong.

Before meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Nov. 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters, “I remain committed to a vision of peace of two states for two peoples, a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.”

In May, as he met with the EU foreign policy chief, Netanyahu said: “I don’t support a one-state solution, I don’t believe that’s a solution at all, I support the vision of two states for two peoples.”

His position reflects the aspirations of the majority of Israelis who, according to polls over the past two decades, support two states for two peoples.

Yet Mr. Burman brazenly ignores the record and misleads his readers into assuming that Netanyahu supports something he explicitly rejects. Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Toronto Re Israeli forces raid West Bank hospital, Nov. 13 The Star’s recent report on a deadly Israeli raid on a Palestinian hospital in Hebron in the West Bank is relevant for many reasons.

Like the Americans in Kunduz, Israel has an imperial disregard for the protection of hospitals and their patients under international law.

The Israeli raid also shows the total disregard for Palestinian lives and institutions. There is no safety for Palestinians in their homeland. Martina Lauer, Chesterville, Ont. Kudos to the Israeli military for raiding a West Bank hospital where both terrorists as well as their victims are being treated. They have every right to do so. John Clubine, Etobicoke Do we really live in a world in which the Israeli Defence Forces can dress up in Arab clothing, walk into a hospital and kill Palestinians? And all with impunity?

At least the Star put the story on the front page, but I have yet to see anything like widespread outrage.

Have we become so used to extrajudicial killings? Sherene Razack, professor, social justice education, University of Toronto