Re: “ICC prosecutor goes after Israeli and Hamas leaders” [May 21, Nation and World]:
It’s deeply unlucky that anybody would attempt to equate the horrendous and intentional crimes of Hamas on Oct. 7 with the heartbreaking deaths of Gazan civilians that adopted later.
To recommend that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers are on a par with Hamas leaders Yehia Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh is solely pandering — and world opinion has been formed by related misjudgments.
There is no such thing as a validity to making use of the phrase “genocide” to something on this battle: battle is horrible, and civilians could be harm and die in it, with none intention or impact of destroying a complete ethnic group. Those that distort language and information to recommend in any other case are becoming a member of a horrible historical past of blood libel — lies to incite violence.
It must be potential to subject arrest warrants for the Hamas terrorists with out feeling a must “equal issues out” with Israeli leaders who’re chargeable for ending a demonstrated risk.
Elaine Selipsky, Lake Forest Park
