An American doctor goes to an Hamaspital

Sent February 20 to the Los Angeles Times.

Dear Editor:

Irfan Galaria writes the opposite of reality. What he saw in Gaza was hell; that's what war is. What he left out was, using the terminology three college presidents used inappropriately but which could not be more appropriate here, is the context.

The context is that the terrorists in  Gaza - Hamas, with the assistance of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah and thousands of ordinary civilians - started a war by perpetuating the October 7 Massacre, the most brutal slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. They made it clear there could be no peace unless they were destroyed.

The context is that those terrorists turned just about every public facility in Gaza, including mosques, hospitals - perhaps they should be called Hamaspitals? - schools and homes, into their bases, storing rockets, rocket launchers and other arms. They built entrances to the tunnels below them. They had hospitals supply office space for their terrorists and utilities for the tunnels underneath them.

The context is that the entire war could end, peace could reign and Gaza could be prosperous if the terror groups were willing, if they just freed the hostages they kidnapped, including 13-month old Kfir Bibas - who was just 9-months old when he was kidnapped, and ended their goal of genocide not just of Israeli Jews, but world Jewry.

While Israel only has one way to end the war, with the total destruction of Hamas, the terrorists started the war and are morally - or should I say immorally - responsible for all the death and destruction in both Israel and Gaza and only they can stop it now.

Sincerely,

Alan Stein 

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