With reference to the special Focus issue of Radiance on Gaza (11-17 January), the brutal military occupation of the Palestinian territories has turned them into gigantic prisons and concentration camps. The Israeli government has become a faithful copy of the Hitler regime, subjecting the Palestinian population to the same extermination policies that the Jews suffered in Nazi-dominated Europe (1933-1945). As Hitler all his life was possessed with a pathological hatred for Jews, so the likes of Ariel Sharon and his ilk are obsessed with a pathological hatred for Arabs.
The Jewish people have suffered so much. For nearly two thousand years they endured the most virulent racist anti-Semitism in medieval and modern Europe. But far from learning from their suffering fellow human beings, the persecuted have been transformed by the ideology of Zionism into the most ferocious of persecutors.
Maryam Jameelah
Lahore, Pakistan