To the editor:
Raja Shehadeh is correct that "Human adaptability is both a strength and a threat" and he certainly showed adaptability in using the coronavirus crisis to pathologically demonize Israel. He refers to what he calls "an Israeli military siege" in 2002 and astoundingly writes "only Palestinians were under threat" while "normal life continued elsewhere."
At that time, here in Israel, Arabs were busy bombing buses and pizza parlors and blowing up teenagers waiting to enter discotheques. It was only after terrorists slaughtered dozens of people trying to celebrate Passover at the Park Hotel just down the street from my current home that Israel went back into the territory the Palestinian Authority had spent nearly a decade turning into a terror base.
Apparently, Shehadeh feels parents having to worry about their children being blown to bits constitutes "normal life" for Israelis and those constant terror attacks don't constitute a threat.
I disagree.
Sincerely,
Alan Stein