No one seeks to wipe out Palestinians

Nate Salant, Hoover

Transcribed from the clipping

“A recent letter sneaked in a mention of ‘genocide’ in Palestine and compared it to the Nazis. There is no comparison. No one seeks to wipe Palestinians off the face of the Earth the way the Nazis tried to wipe out the Jews and gypsies.”

Context added by this archive

The answer, in the same letters column, with the word back inside quotation marks. Kept because the argument ran both ways on these pages and the archive is not a clipping service for one side of it.

Cite this item

"No one seeks to wipe out Palestinians," The Birmingham News, 2 January 2007. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2007-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2007-001

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‘Al-Nakba denial’ pervades letterThe Register-Guard · 14 December 2007 · the same year

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