Letter: Palestinians won’t rest until world in cinders

Thursday, March 7, 2002 | 8:50 a.m.

As a member of the human race, it enrages me whenever I see anyone celebrating the destruction or death of another. As an American, I was outraged to see "people" rejoicing in the destruction of the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the deaths of so many innocents.

As a Jew, I am constantly reminded of how much people hate. I have watched the Palestinians rejoicing proudly in public whenever a suicide bomber takes at least one innocent life, especially when it is an innocent Jewish life.

Have we forgotten that the only reason Israel is "occupying" Palestinian territory is because the Palestinians would rather die than admit Israel has a right to exist? Have we forgotten that as soon as Israel was established the Arab states, as a whole, attacked her?

How can the world allow the governments and organizations behind the suicide bombers to get away with inciting terror and destruction? Who will take responsibility for these unnecessary deaths and who will stop this from continuing? If it is only the actions of the "fundamentalist Islamists," why have we not heard an outpouring of dissent from the non-fundamentalists?

I have never seen a group of people act so abhorrently so often. A Jew dies and they celebrate. One of their own dies and they celebrate. Is this an acceptable way for any member of the human race to act? What will it take for the world to see them for who they really are and what they are really made of?

When they are all that is left on a smoldering desecrated planet, they will only have each other to fight and they will ... to the death!

LISA D' ASUNTA