Editor,
Israel is a legally established nation under international law, established under conditions similar to those of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and several other Middle Eastern nations, whose right to exist are not at all disputed.
Israel's right to exist has been disputed since the beginning, and the establishment of Israel was controversial simply because it was a Jewish state.
Even the predominantly Christian state of Lebanon did not provoke such controversy. Those who say the establishment of Israel was illegal and unjust but do not say the same for Jordan, formed under the same conditions and the same mandate, only show their prejudice.
For those who make up their outrageous and unfounded claims about Israel's "Holocaust" of Arabs, they could better show their concern for those Arabs by addressing the far more serious mistreatment of Palestinian Arabs in other Arab nations and the abuse of Palestinian Arabs by their own leaders and gangs in the Palestinian areas in Israel.
The fact that they do not do so shows that their real issue is not the plight of Arabs but the existence of the Jewish state.
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Lynn Provencio
UNM student
