Israel Hamas war
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Letter to the editor: Writer’s views miss the mark
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…
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Letter to the editor: Israel is not an apartheid state, it’s fighting for survival
I write in response to the letters condemning Israel.
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Letter to the editor: No-vote urged on resolutions
We urge voters in Vergennes and several other Vermont towns to reject well-meant but futile resolutions attacking Israel.
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Letter to the editor: Criticizing Israeli regime is not antisemitism
I would like to offer another (Jewish) perspective on the Apartheid Free Communities measure on the Vergennes town meeting ballot.
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Ferrisburgh will not include Palestine resolution on warning
While Vergennes residents on Town Meeting Day will consider a non-binding resolution relating to Israel and its treatment of some Palestinian people, Ferrisburgh voters will not have a…
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Letter to the editor: City ballot item called ‘divisive’
I write to oppose the anti-Israel non-binding referendum on the Vergennes Town Meeting Day ballot. Israel is a vibrant democracy. Palestinian Israelis vote alongside Jewish Israelis in all…
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City voters to weigh in on pro-Palestine article
Vergennes residents on Town Meeting Day will have a chance to tell city councilors to take a stand in the war between Israel and the Palestinian people.
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Letter to the editor: Misinformation common on modern Zionism
There’s been some divisive disinformation about Zionism on news and social media these days. I’d like to offer some historical perspectives with the hope they provide more light…
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Letter to the editor: Hamas captives must be freed
It has been one year since the worst mass murder of Jewish people since the Shoah.
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Letter to the editor: One can support both Israeli and Palestinian causes
In his letter to the editor in the September 5 Addison Independent, Hal Cohen asserts that those who support the Palestinians’ right to exist are actually Hamas supporters…
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Letter to the editor: Make peace, don’t demonize
We share Hal Cohen’s outrage at Hamas’s unspeakable recent murder of six Israeli hostages. No decent person could defend Hamas, which is, indeed, evil personified; but it is…
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Letter to the editor: The pro-Hamas folks are traitors
With the murder of American hostages by Palestinian Hamas those pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas protesters have become traitors.
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Ways of Seeing: Harris should apply Leahy Law
It’s a rainy Monday afternoon in Ripton, and outside I hear crickets chirping. Tonight is the beginning of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and my heart is…
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Letter to the editor: Netanyahu makes pitch amid carnage in Gaza
On Wednesday, the day before this issue of the Addison Independent came out, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to address the joint houses of Congress.
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Ways of Seeing: ‘His will that every need be supplied’
If you ask me how I am doing these days, I don’t know how to answer. My heart is breaking for Palestine. And my heart is breaking for…
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Guest editorial: The Leahy Law should be applied to Israel
I conceived and introduced the Leahy law in 1997 because our Latin partners, and security forces in many other countries, were violating the basic principles that the United States stands…