Intolerance on display

Your articles describing the recent killings of Christians in Egypt underscore the elusiveness of Mideast peace due to intolerance by Muslim-based dictatorships. Furthermore, this hate is perpetuated by the media and schools in these Arab countries.

Stoning of women? Reported in Iran and Pakistan. Government violence against pro-democracy students? Happened in Iran. Need a youthful male or female suicide bomber? Check with the Palestinians or Taliban. How about some international terrorists? Look no further than Saudi-land, Yemen or Somalia. Latest mosque, school, marketplace or political bombing? Try Afghanistan or Lebanon. The list of misanthropy goes on and on.

Amazing is the hypocrisy of “activists” ranging from our fringe Peace and Justice League members to the Nobel-winning president (remember his previous “I Love Cairo” tour?) in never denouncing the barbaric acts of these former Soviet and Nazi allies, but always ready to delegitimize the existence of Israel – the region’s only democracy which includes Christians, Muslims, Arabs and women in parliament (and universities, and medical centers, and corporations, etc.).

Is the left really blind to reality or just covertly anti-Semitic? Where are their rallies and boycotts against crimes against humanity in Arab lands? Nowhere, simply nonexistent.

Joseph Harari

Spokane