Israel Hamas war
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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…
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Hector Vila: A great awakening in the offing?
Since I have been writing about higher education in these pages, it’s incumbent that I address the current campus protests against the agony in Gaza.
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Letter to the editor: Weapons policy violates the law
Bless me Father for I have sinned. I am a United States citizen. I have paid my federal taxes. Our United States government offers money and weapons to…
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Editorial: If students focused their protests, they could have the world behind them
If others aren’t going to protest America’s support of Israel through its billions in cash and tens of thousands of bombs that have reduced wide swaths of Gaza…
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Ways of Seeing: The irony of policing college students
I have been pondering the relationship between policing and teaching. Initially, one might not see the two as related, but they really are quite intertwined.