Why don’t more challenge U.S. policy on war in Gaza?

There are few readers or writers that voice their opinions to the editors to The Gazette so aptly and succinctly as Ginny Paulson in her Nov. 3 letter, “U.S. policies in the Middle East.” Her clear thinking about our country’s involvement and support of Israel’s war in the Middle East ask a key question: Why are we supporting an illegal occupation as Israel expands their war with further deaths and destruction?

I am second generation Lebanese from the community of Cedar Rapids. Since the day after Oct. 7, 2023 I had a strong opinion that this war was going to involve the U.S. and expand into a larger war. I have voiced my concerns in dozens of letters, emails, and in various newspapers and direct correspondence to The White House to both the President and V.P. to no avail, change of policy or consideration of redirecting our war efforts into a peaceful mission.

Why the public is so averse to challenge this wrong policy is beyond me. We are supporting a war against an Indigenous group of people called Palestinians and now are involved in supplying weapons to Israel for their invasion of the sovereign nation of Lebanon. We are joining Israel in their mission of occupation, of destruction and of killing innocent civilians. We are sending billions of dollars to Israel to support this misguided war. It is one thing to defend Israel’s borders but completely another to use our destructive weapons on the Lebanese.

Kamel Aossey

Minnetonka, MN