Letter to the Editor in St. Louis Post-Dispatch - July 20, 2005
Terrorist group
The U.S. government lists
Hamas as a terrorist organization. Yet when this organization claims
responsibility for a rocket that killed a young woman in her home in
Israel, it is described in "Violence further strains Mideast truce" (July 15) as the
Islamic militant group Hamas. Why not the "terrorist group" Hamas?
At least six times in the article, people who murder civilians in Israel
are described as militant. Not once are they called what they really are:
terrorists. Why is the murder of civilians a terrorist act when it occurs
in New York or London but not in Israel?
Martin H. Israel
Ladue
