Israel does not need our support

This letter is in response to the column, "Peace in the Mideast will not happen," written Oct. 27.\nIt is true that most of us in this nation are somehow influenced by the media, especially in terms of perception of world events. Unfortunately, in many instances we do not see or hear about the real event. What the average person who reads the newspaper or turns on the television gets is a manipulated and one-sided version of the event. Specific to this case is that of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.\nThe mainstream media wants you to believe that the state of "Israel" is a just nation, which has just leaders serious about peace. The fact is that "Israel" is a violator of more UN resolutions than any other nation in the world and is guilty of multiple human rights violations, including, but not limited to: the rendering of more than a million Palestinians homeless in just over a half a century, a system of apartheid similar to what was practiced in South Africa, or the United States before the Civil Rights Movement, in which Palestinians have inferior shelter, health care and other basic needs, which we take for granted, and a military that, on a consistent basis, uses excessive crackdown methods that have murdered thousands and thousands of Palestinians during the last half century, whose only weapon against this brutal oppression is stones.\nUN Resolution 3379 declares that Zionism is a form of racism. If the United States is supposedly a country that emphasizes racial harmony, why does it support a country controlled by Zionists? If the U.S. government truly values justice, as it preaches, it will suspend the billions in foreign and military aid that "Israel" receives every year, and will stop forcing American taxpayers to fund corrupt and oppressive regimes, like "Israel."\nJohn J. Bava\nSophomore