Re: “Palestinians Honor a Figure Reviled in Israel as a Terrorist” (news article March 12 ):
To the Editor:
A woman in 1978 aided in the killing of 38 Israeli civilians and Palestinian students wish to see her memory honored by naming a square for her and erecting a statue of her. No matter which way I look at this the woman, Dalal Mughrabi is a murderess and guilty of the lives of 38 people. Not a figure worthy of admiration or honor and those who think she is are, to a degree, complicit in the violence. It doesn’t matter what side she was on, or who she killed for, she killed people with an act of terror and the students wishing a public declaration of her “heroics” are inciting conflict and inviting further friction. It is an unwise and provocative invitation for a new generation swaddled in explosives. I had to compare her actions on that day in 1978 to American actions in this war and the difference I have realized is this: it is a matter of intent. We target militants who hide behind innocents, because we are hesitant to kill civilians. Mughrabi went out of her way to kill non-combatants and emotionally wounded dozens of family members. That is not to say that the Israelites are not also guilty of bloodshed but a battle of vendettas will only end once everyone is dead.
Estelle S.
Denver, March 12, 2010
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