With reference to SAB's letter entitled Parties should accept Israel's existence , I would like to give my response. SAB seems to forget that the state of Israel is an illegal state.

The state of Israel is a state imposed upon the Palestinians by the UN through UN General Assembly Resolution 181 in 1947. The UNGA Resolution 181, however, was never ratified by the Security Council. Moreover, the resolution is only binding if all parties to it agree to be bound by its terms, which in this case, did not happen.

Therefore, the state of Israel is an illegal state and therefore, every Palestinian has every right to claim the land that was illegally given to Israel. Over the past six decades, the world has witnessed innocent Palestinian blood being spilt, and the people driven out from their ancestral homes. Faced with such daily reality, it is not only logical but an obligation for the Palestinians to resist. Hamas is one such expression of resistance.

In the context of morality, Israel is the aggressor and therefore, has to be rid of from Palestinian land. The people of Palestine are doing nothing wrong but fighting for their right to exist. The rest of the world is just watching and allowing Israel to exterminate the Palestinians. When the victims decide to fight back, they are immediately labeled as 'terrorists' and 'murderers'.

As for the killing of civilians, the Israelis of all people, should not complain as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are well-known for their 'civilian killing' sprees. In Operation Rainbow, IDF snipers picked out children and adolescents as their targets. Hamas' response to IDF's indiscriminate killing is the manifestation of the teaching in Torah which says 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'.

As for SAB's reservation against Iran and Syria, allow me to remind SAB that Iran has more than 100,000 Jews. The Jews have a representative on the Iranian Legislative Council. Iran is more accommodative of Jews than Europeans of Muslims. For example, there are more than six millions Muslims in France yet they have no representative in the France's legislative body.

It is also very mind-boggling as to why Palestinians are being punished for crimes committed by the Nazis. The majority of the Jews in Israel now are the Khazari Jews. The Khazari Jews originated from Khazaria, an area between Georgia and Russia. Never have their ancestors ever lived in Palestine.

I say that after the return of Palestinian land to their rightful owners, should the Jews choose to stay, then they should stay under the banner of a Palestinian state. This is the most moral thing to do. Then again, nobody cares about morality anymore.

In short, freeing Palestine from the Israeli aggressors is the duty of every moral human being in the world. If we can support the first Gulf war, why can't we support the effort to liberate Palestine?