Mailbag: How can world allow this?

I just saw the play, "My Name is Rachel Corrie," and wept, heartbroken at the horrendous suffering of Gazans - which Americans fund.

Hamas is called a terrorist organization (suicide bombers ARE terrorists) but the bigger terrorists are politicians who use Gazans as pawns in pursuit of political gain.

• Olmert, Livni, and Barak who betrayed Sderot's residents (also pawns) by breaking the June cease-fire although Hamas had essentially stopped rocket fire.

• Abbas, who told Israel to keep bombing Gaza so as to destroy his political enemy Hamas.

• Obama who caved in to Zionist pressure from Congress, dropping his demand for a settlement freeze in order to gain support for health care reform.

• Christian Zionists, who count their flawed theology more important than human lives created in the image of God.

Rachel screamed, "How can the world allow this to continue?" after seeing tanks and bulldozers destroying any semblance of a normal childhood in Gaza, tearing down homes and greenhouses, destroying the food supply, wiping out sewage, electricity and water treatment. She stood amazed by brave families practicing nonviolent resistance simply by continuing their daily tasks in the shadow of Israeli guns.

How CAN the world allow this inhuman siege to continue? How can Americans continue to fund this brutality with $13 million every day?

Please do something: join the boycott and divestment movement. Support a single truly-democratic state with equal rights for both Palestinians and Jews.

June Forsyth Kenagy, Albany