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# Israelites do it the old-fashioned way... they earn it
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/israelites-do-it-the-old-fashioned-way-they-earn-it-editor/
- Published: 2006-05-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:46:53.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ron Prosky Santa Monica*

In response to Daniel Stevens’ letter entitled “Nichols is full of it” (SMDP, May 8, page 4), I am compelled to reflect the truth behind both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There’s nothing I hate more than a one-sided wannabe journalist, and it seems that both Nichols and Stevens fit the bill to an extent.

First, lets keep the Holocaust out of it, what’s done is done. As far as Mr. Stevens’ father believing in his own superiority complex resulting from his Judaism, most people have a complex of one kind or another whether it’s legitimate or not. The fact remains that Jews are among the most generous, giving and grateful people around, and in most cases well educated and aware life’s more precious elements. Anyone who holds these qualities against them is living in a vacuum.

Mr. Stevens mentioned that seven Palestinians die for each Israeli in this ongoing conflict. He further writes that radical Jews have been on a mission to overtake Palestinian territories militarily since Israel’s inception in 1948\. Are you dumb or just sniffing too much glue? Who instigated the Six Day War? Who instigated the Yom Kippur War? Who provides training camps for militants on suicide missions? Who’s after who here? Mr. Stevens, do you know that every kibbutz and town on the Israeli side of the Syrian and Jordanian borders have hundreds of bomb shelters? Can you guess why this is, and can you guess who is usually provoking such attacks? And for the record, Israel took control of the Golan Heights and the West Bank following Palestinian attacks.

Lets talk about Iran and Israel now. Cliff Nichols is suggesting that nuclear weapons at the hands of a nation that lives by terroristic values is a danger to everyone, especially the Jews and Israel (SMDP, May 3, page 4). Why does the U.S. leave Israel alone when it comes to their stockpile of such weapons? Because Israel shares the same western mentality that the use of such weapons is an absolute last case scenario, unlike the suicidal Islamic Fundamentalists that value martyrdom above all else.

When you are a small nation of 7 million people surrounded by enemies — fundamentalist, enemies — the world community would tend to leave you alone. Israel simply wants peace. Jews simply want peace. Would Israel ever consider bombing or hurting people based on religious or geographical beliefs? We already know that Iran would, and I can unequivocally assure you that Israel would not. The way Mr. Stevens depicts the “targeted killings” on Israel’s part is a false analogy. Israel only targets leaders within Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Aksa Brigade, etc., usually in response to a prior attack on its own people. The Israeli army also has been known to level the homes of families related to a suicide bomber in hopes of deterring these acts. Is Israel completely innocent? Are its Jewish occupants completely innocent? No. No one can possibly be completely innocent in such an ongoing debacle, but Israel is definitely the less guilty by virtue of the fact that all they are trying to attain is ongoing peace rather than the destruction of its neighbors. The neighboring Palestinians have one common denominator, and that is to drive every last Israeli Jew into the ocean.

This isn’t about the Holocaust as much as affirmative action isn’t about slavery. But when Iran’s president denies the Holocaust or starts challenging some of the facts surrounding the Holocaust, it sends a strong message. The only other group of people that I know of which has challenged the Holocaust are the white supremacists. That’s not the sort of company any normal, equalitarian person would like to keep. Daniel Stevens complains of how the media is “... Israeli-Centric with little, if any Arab points of view...” That sure is strange considering there are more Muslims on earth today than any other religion. Could it be that the world is sick and tired of their “woe is us” stance they take? Or maybe the media just doesn’t care about the Arabs/Palestinians the same way they don’t care about the welfare of the Western World? Gosh Mr. Stevens, what a well thought out letter you wrote.

There have been plenty of fundamentalist Jews that have bombed mosques and other Palestinian locations, but those acts are far outweighed by numbers of terrorist killings aimed at the Jews. Remember, Israel only wants peace. The Palestinians want the Jews and Israel to die, yet they rely on Israel’s economy to support 80 percent of the Palestinian workforce. Where does it end? Why are there people floating around this country thinking the Palestinians are getting a bad rap? Anything they get has been rightfully earned.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 11, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)