I have read Joanna Colwell’s editorials over the last few months and believe that her anti-Zionist beliefs cloud her view of what’s happening in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Her views on Israel being an “apartheid” state and genocidal towards the Palestinians is purely subjective.

Why don’t I hear her calling out the Palestinian Authority for their “pay for slay” funds that they pay to the terrorists that kill Israelis? I never hear her mention that Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic jihad, and many Palestinian citizens (who took part on October 7th) are calling for the destruction of the only Jewish state and killing of Jews. That the rockets continue to be shot into Israel from Gaza and Lebanon. The mantra of “from the river to the sea” is just what Nasser, remember him?, use to say, “drive the Jews into the sea.”

This letter in no way defends the right-wing government of Netanyahu or the settler movement but BOTH sides must learn to live together in a two-state solution and accept each other’s right to exist. Joanna and others must stop villainizing Israel and act like they are the only ones at fault.

Marv Greenberg

Middlebury