Letters to the editor for Thursday, Jan. 8

• Published January 08, 2009

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When Triway buys a property and submits rezone requests, he puts every other builder on hold until the rezone is decided. If it is decided in his favor, the rest of the building community sees the zoning as changeable and the council as ready to make it. Downtown housing has not been aided by the rezone of the isthmus.

Zena Hartung, Olympia

United Nations must end bloodshed

All civilized nations should condemn both Israeli and Palestinian Hamas leaders for allowing their dispute to explode into a bloody war.

There is never any justification for deliberately causing civilian deaths as is being done by Israel with their far superior weapons.

Hamas leaders should have known that Israel would over-react, and Israel certainly knew that bombing Gaza would result in hundreds of innocent men, women and children killed and wounded.

Laser-guided 1,000-pound bombs have been dropped on densely populated sections of Gaza and have hit hospitals and other nonmilitary targets.

Israel has the most sophisticated high tech weapons, some made in the United States, or purchased with U.S. aid funds. Hamas rockets are primitive by comparison and rarely hit what is aimed at.

President George W. Bush has never taken seriously his potential role as a peacemaker, always favors Israel and thus has no credibility among world leaders. We can only hope that President-elect Barack Obama will provide more even-handed leadership in a search for peace in the Middle East.

For now the United Nations must act to stop this humanitarian crisis.

Bob Thompson, Lacey

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