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Palestinians mourned during the funeral of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis on Friday.
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In response to last week’s letter, “Aloha spirit has nothing to do with war” (Star-Advertiser, March 18), do the writer’s sentiments also apply to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza?
Does the author infer that America had every right to exterminate the entire Japanese population in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII? Should the U.S. have put the Japanese in strict confinement, as Israel has effectively done to Palestinians for over 70 years?
The author’s appeal to the aloha spirit is as laughable as Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims of self-defense after 150 days of killing civilians in Gaza.
Benjamin Shafer
Hauula
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