In an amazing guest column (Nov. 23) with the sub-headline “Israel’s actions turn the world against the country, not a biased European media,” William Slavick of Pax Christi called the Islamist assault against Israel a “Washington myth about Israel as a beleaguered little county under constant threat from the Arab world.”

He asserts that Israel’s answer to the indiscriminate slaughter of its women, children and worshippers by Islamist homicide bombers and al-Qaida “inflames Muslims everywhere” and calls it an affront to “Europeans’ sense of justice and humanity.”

He writes, “As the United States has squandered the good will it enjoyed after Sept. 11, Israel’s violent repression of the Palestinians has squandered the good will Jews enjoyed world-wide after the Holocaust.”

He goes on, “The Palestinians are, as the Dutch were, an occupied country, resisting their occupier as they can” – ignoring the fact that the Dutch resistance fighters did not use barbaric methods against women, children or places of worship.

Slavick ignores Europe’s deeply ingrained, centuries-old anti-Semitism, namely the forced conversions, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the deafening silence in the face of the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people and the Holocaust, and the unwillingness of the church to excommunicate many Catholic Nazi thugs and even Adolf Hitler himself.

The real outrage is not America’s and Israel’s response to these barbaric Islamist attacks against innocents and Western civilization but the wide-spread Wahhabist genocidal preaching and teaching in their schools, “to kill all Americans, Jews and infidels.”

Klaus D. Kuck, Lewiston