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The Gaza Facts
The Israeli operation to prevent the flot-
tila from reaching Gaza has generated
a great amount of controversy ("Flotilla
Turmoil:' June 3, page 8).
Whatever one's opinion, there are
two facts that are incontrovertible: 1) if
10,000 rockets hadn't been unleashed
on Israel from Gaza, there would have
not been Operation Cast Lead last year,
and 2) if llamas had used its complete
independence and sovereignty in Gaza
to even begin to create a functioning
state, there would have been no block-
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Lies That Inflame
Taking a page out of the Nazi playbook,
the one about repeating lies so often
that people will believe them, some
Europeans have embarked on a propa-
ganda cruise to Gaza ("Flotilla Turmoil:'
June 3, page 8). Their purpose is to bury
the truth and to inflame anti-Semitic
hate against the Jewish state.
Gaza is under the iron-fisted rule
of llamas, a terrorist group that is
obsessed with annihilating Israel and
exterminating the Jewish people.
The llamas terror state in Gaza vio-
lently oppresses the Arab settlers under
its control and, despite signing a treaty,
it still launches missiles at, and perpe-
trates armed incursions, into Israel on
almost a daily basis.
llamas and other radical Islamic ter-
rorist groups that have nested in Gaza
have illegally smuggled many tons of
weapons into Gaza, including powerful
and accurate missiles. The goal is war
and genocide.
Despite llamas posing an existential
threat to her, Israel still allows all the
basic necessities to cross into Gaza.
And between the United Nations, the
European Union and the United States,
Gaza receives more aid per capita than
any other place on Earth. If there is pain
and suffering in Gaza, its imposed by
their terrorist rulers.
Douglas Miller
Franklin
Shabbat Connection
On the heels of your report on the
Jewish-Chaldean gala ("Coming
Together:' June 3, p. 27), which my wife,
Rachel, and I attended, I had a conver-
sation with a young Chaldean woman
in a bank that focused not on Jewish-
Chaldean relations in the immediate
present nor on hopes for future good
relations between Michigan's Jewish
and Chaldean communities.
Instead, at her initiative and knowing
that I am a rabbi with whom she has
shared Aramaic words in the past, she
spoke to me about her concerns about
Chaldeans and other Christian minori-
ties in Iraq.
She relayed to me a story told to her
by her mother that I feel should be
shared with your readers. Here are my
notes that I wrote soon after leaving the
bank:
A Chaldean teller at a nearby
bank described to me the killing of
Chaldeans that continues in Iraq, where,
according to her, very few Chaldeans
remain. Recently, she said, a bus filled
with Chaldean children was attacked
and many were killed. This is not
reported in the American press, she
said. Her mother tells her stories of
being a child in Iraq when Jews were
forced to leave Iraq.
One Iraqi Jewish woman told her
mother as the Jews were forced to leave
on Saturday, "Today, they come for us
on our Sabbath. On another day, they
will come for you on Sunday, your
Sabbath."
Sure enough, she said, "when I was
a child, we were forced to leave and
were allowed to take only a few of our
possessions with us:' Her mother dis-
tinctly remembers that in Iraq, Jews
and Chaldeans share a memory of what
took place in the near past on Shabbat.
The Jewish woman in the story knew
how important Shabbat figured in her
life. So did those who exiled Jews on
Shabbat.
Rabbi Herbert A. Yoskowitz
Adat Shalom Synagogue
Farmington Hills
What A Journey
How pleased we were to read the
article "Love Of Judaism" by Alyssa
McMillan (May 20, Page 78). As African
Americans who are also Jewish, we are
in the minority in regards to our demo-
graphic as it relates to being Jewish.
It was such a pleasure to read the
beautifully written article about Ms.
McMillan and her family's journey to
Judaism as well as her very active life in
our thriving Jewish community.
Her experiences give us further hope
and zeal that our daughter, Brianna,
will experience similar and progressive
diversity in our community.
Thank you, Jewish News, for continu-
ing to display relevant and diverse per-
spectives in our Jewish life.
Brian and Jennifer Johnson
Oak Park