Iread with great interest Seth Lavin’s opinion piece “What Israel is doing is harming Jews” (Aug. 6). As a Jew, I care very much about Israel and what happens to the Jewish people around the world.

The writer is correct in that Israel must change course immediately and do much more to enable Palestinians in Gaza to eat. That’s a basic human right.

But he misses the larger point. Lavin mentions Israel more than 25 times in his op-ed, almost always to accuse and to blame. But he mentions Hamas only once. In doing so, he fails to mention the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre that provoked Israel’s war against Hamas. And he fails to mention how Hamas continues even today to hold hostage up to 20 innocent people.

I acknowledge that Israel bears some responsibility for the Gazans’ current plight, whil

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