Variations of the letter below have been sent to newspapers and some of the relevant Congressional representatives. I concentrated on those from Connecticut and Massachusetts as a former resident of the former state and current resident (when I'm not in Israel) of the latter.
To the editor:
It's not surprising that Hamas continued its bloody riots during a supposed "cease-fire." ("Violence erupts amid Gaza cease-fire, 2 Palestinians killed," August 11) During Hamas' well-planned riot on Friday, Palestinian Arabs tossed explosives, including molotov cocktails and hand grenades, burned tires, tried to cross the border into Israel in order to murder people in Sderot and other nearby communities, started numerous fires using incendiary devices attached to kites, balloons and condoms, and caused a power outage when one of its incendiary kites landed on a power line by a kibbutz.
What is surprising is that while Hamas and the other terror groups in Gaza are being so violent, no fewer than seven Congresspeople from Connecticut and Massachusetts (Michael Capuano, Katherine Clark, Joe Courtney, Rosa DeLauro, Elizabeth Esty, Jim McGovern and Niki Tsongas) have signed a letter (https://pocan.house.gov/sites/pocan.house.gov/files/Gaza-Humanitarian-Aid-Letter-7-30-18.pdf) calling our government to pour more money into Gaza, knowing full well that every dollar we spend in Gaza helps to strengthen the terrorists in charge.
Even worse, they want to pour some of the funding into UNRWA, the United Nations agency that has not only forced generations of Palestinian Arabs to live as if they were refugees, but has used its schools to indoctrinate children to hate while feigning surprise when others discovered Hamas stored rockets under its schools.
Months ago, we asked several members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to look through a study, "Schoolbooks of the Palestinian Authority: The Attitude to the Jews, to Israel and to Peace," published last December by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. These schoolbooks are the ones used by UNRWA. Nobody who is interested in peace and the welfare of both Palestinians and Israelis as well as being familiar with the delegitimization and demonization of Israel and "indoctrination to violent struggle instead of peace" pulsing through the pages of the textbooks UNRWA uses would want to give additional funding to UNRWA.
The study was updated in June and is available on the web at https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/app/uploads/2018/07/E_184_18.pdf. I urge Congresspeople Capuano, Clark, Courtney, DeLauro, Esty, McGovern and Tsongas to read at least some of the examples and the executive summary. Gaining some understanding of the harm UNRWA has been doing may lead them to regret effectively pouring gasoline onto the fires by lending their signatures to that letter.
Sincerely,
Alan Stein
Natick, Massachusetts and Netanya, Israel
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