Caption could have used more words

To the editor:

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it might have helped if you had used a few more words with the caption of the gun toting, fatigue-dressed Palestinian child in the Jan. 30 paper.

According to an attendee of the camp, 'they train us to be a jihad fighter for Allah” a term that would send chills down the spine of anybody who saw the blood spilled in Paris. The youngsters were trained in 'exercises simulating kidnapping IDF soldiers and infiltration into Israel through tunnels.” Ah yes, another group that is looking to take hostages to trade for cash and/or the release of killers already in custody.

What is really interesting is that Hamas has funds for this kind of training while the rebuilding program in Gaza stalls because there is no money to build the infrastructure. But then this is part of the pattern of Hamas - millions for murder, but only minimal amount to improve those whom it claims to represent. Just for balance you could have included the picture of the Hamas operative chasing a woman at a Tel Aviv bus stop so he could stab her in the back making the woman his 12th victim. The icing on the cake? Recently, Egypt labeled Hamas as a terrorist organization.

Mitchell A. Levin

Cedar Rapids