LA Times
Why Sharon?
August 15, 2005

To the editor:

Aluf Benn calls Sharon's deep distrust of Arabs "unilateralism." I would callit "bigotry."

Here we have a grown man who still heeds his mother's misguided advice to "never believe them."

In the past we have been told that it was the Palestinians who would not negotiate. Instead we learn that it was Sharon who refused to negotiate, fearing he would fail. Why would he fail if he had justice on his side?

We learn from Benn that, to Sharon, peace talks equaled a "corral" leading Israel to the slaughterhouse.

It appears that Sharon is a bigoted man who is afraid of talking peace or negotiating.

Phyllis Solomon
Laguna Woods

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