Abuse cannot go on

History goes back more than 70 years or so. Israel is “God’s Chosen People.” They told us so centuries ago. I don’t know of anyone of any other people that heard God say he is playing favorites with them. Their Old Testament book of Joshua says his armies put to the edge of the sword everything that breathed in Ai, and several other cities in Canaan. Their God told them to. There is nothing recorded there finding Canaanites harmed Israel, deserving that.

The Oct. 7 slaughter by Hamas in Israel is despicable in the view of any civilized person. No equivocation of it is acceptable.

However, the settlements Israel has permanently put in Palestinian lands have long been condemned by the international community, yet are continued by Israel and those settlers continue to kill and abuse Palestinians around them with seeming impunity. How long would a reasonable person expect such abuse to be tolerated? Whether one is hanged, shot, stabbed, or starved to death, they’re still dead. And that’s a permanent condition. One would think that Middle Eastern cultures would learn that revenge, grudge-bearing, and rights to vast lands based on sketchy 3,000-yearold commands of a God only a few people heard are not readily enforced thousands of years later.

If you want a reason to kill or hate, you’ll find one. That is true of any and all cultures, races, and combinations of people.

It seems Empress Sarah and her cabal have outlawed teaching fully factual history in the state. If you keep the poor and marginalized ignorant of what was done to them by the rich and powerful, you can evade responsibility. And also avoid correcting those wrongs.

We could have had an excellent governor. But Chris Jones is Black. Redneck fundamentalists preferred a liar and autocratic white person. Did anyone think it would be otherwise?

KARL HANSEN Hensley