To the Journal editor:

I am replying to the Lynn P. Hansen letter that appeared last Sunday’s Mining Journal.

In the last paragraph, Hansen says, “It is profoundly offensive to me that my tax dollars help Hammas buy rockets to fire at Israel. How about you?”

Congress continues to authorize funding for arms to Israel, but to Hammas? Where does Hansen get the idea that our tax dollars are buying rockets to help Hammas? That statement is without foundation, without crediblity and defies logic and sense.

Nowhere have I seen or heard of our tax dollars aiding Hammas. For a comprehensive and unbiased coverage of the events in Gaza and Palestine, I suggest going to democracynow.org and check out their reporting of conflict in Gaza and Palestine.

Gaza has been under Israeli occupation for over 47 years, the siege prior to this conflict for over 7 years and the genocide against Palestinians really started in 1948 and has continued ever since.

The people of Gaza want the aggression to stop, and that it not be repeated, that the unjust blockade the Palestinian people are living under be lifted. Israel has imposted unjust limits on life in Gaza, in Palestine, on Palestinians and other repressive conditions and demands on these people.

These people have been pushed to the limit of their tolerance. They have the right of all people, a right that all poeple of the world have, to resist oppression.

It is U.S. tax dollars to Israel that is killing the people of Gaza, shelling U.N. refugee camps, hospitals in Gaza, civilians of all ages and gender. This is an overwhelming human displacement diaster, a crisis beyond understanding.

All the U.N. can do, besides on site help, is protest, criticize while Congress continues to fund Israel the means to carry on its onslaught and slaughter in Gaza. There is a lot of information and propganda coming out of the mouths of President Obama, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and the media.

Israelis are commanded to inherit the land and expel Palestinians. Look at the map of Palestine and the Palestinian loss of land from 1946 to now. Genocide parallels Native American and Palestinians land.

Fred Jakobcic

Marquette