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Letter to the editor 05/09/07

Last week I wrote about an editorial from the Baltimore Sun that accused Israel of rushing into war. Realizing that I made some good points, I sharpened the argument a bit and e-mailed it to the Sun.

It was published Wednesday as a Letter to the Editor. The bulk of it is below.

A reader of the editorial wouldn't know, for instance, that in 2000, Israel complied with U.N. Security Council Resolution 425 and withdrew all of its troops from Lebanon.

That same resolution called for Lebanon to deploy its army in southern Lebanon and disarm Hezbollah. Lebanon did not fulfill its obligations under that resolution, and in subsequent years, Hezbollah launched sporadic terror attacks into Israel, killing soldier and civilian alike.

When Hezbollah again violated the international border last year, killing three Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two, it was clear that, in violation of the U.N. resolution, Hezbollah had built an infrastructure that could no longer be tolerated.

For years, most of my writing was letter to the editor. And I often got published. but I also wasn't always happy with the editing and in the 90's it wasn't necessarily as easy to get published as before, so I stopped. Then I started blogging. So this is sort of getting back to my writing roots.

Letter to the Editor, Israel.

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