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Dissension and division in the Mideast

Thank you for publishing David Nassar's exceptionally good letter ("No 'zero-sum game,'" Wednesday). He summed it up quite well by saying, "Peace is not an ethnic birthright." The most important function of the peace advocates is merely to be witnesses to the horrors wrought by Israel's racist war on the oppressed and persecuted Palestinians.

Those International Solidarity Movement peace advocates are today's most valiant heroes in bravely standing up to a well-armed and racist nation and doing what they can for real justice and a lasting peace.

How dare we accuse any Palestinian or their pro-peace supporters of being terrorists when Israel sends in helicopter gunships and "accidentally" kills innocent Palestinian women and children with brutal missile attacks.

No one should be discriminated against because of race or religion, and it is insane that superpower America willingly arms and empowers Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land.

Zionism really is racism, and pretending it is not has only misled many otherwise decent people into thinking and doing despicable things. There is no security in institutionalized racist hatred; there is only a continuing holocaust and flagrant violations of both moral and international law. There is nothing but chaos, suffering and pain on both sides of Israel's apartheid walls.

ANNE SELDEN ANNAB

Mechanicsburg, Pa.