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Helen Binstok is a student at El Camino College.

In response, in part, to the article about the Palestinians, I agree. There should be a safe space for both the Israelis and the Palestinians. But we’re not dealing with the Palestinians, we’re dealing with Hamas. Hamas is a known terrorist organization, and their main effort is to destroy Jews around the world, so it’s not really the fault of the Palestinians; it’s Hamas that has started the war by attacking Israel first and then Israel is only defending itself and I agree that if you are anti-Israel, you are antisemitic because I don’t think that we should have an organization like Hamas, which is a known terrorist organization, running a government and running around attacking and kidnapping Jewish people and torturing them. This is wrong, I don’t know.  Oh, the solution nobody does because this has been going on since Biblical times, but it’s not to silence Israel because Israel is only defending itself. Hamas attacked first.