Levy Bergmann's July 8 letter, "Israel has historical right to disputed land in Gaza," is not only not yet up to speed with Steven Spielberg, he's still in the Leon Uris' "Exodus" version of history, the "this land is mine, God gave it to me" history. No we will not take his advice and blindly support racist states that commit massive human rights violations.

Bergmann's letter is a perfect example of the religious Jewish nutcases that pollute the West Bank in illegal settlements.

As an American, I don't care who settled on the land first, and if the Jews lived there before the dinosaur era or not. I'm more concerned with what the human rights organizations have to say. In Human Rights Watch's recent "Precisely Wrong" report, they state, "Israeli forces failed to take all feasible precautions to verify that these targets were combatants, as required by the laws of war, or that they failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians." I'd appreciate next time for Bergmann to keep his racist comments to himself so that we don't have to read his garbage again.

Alex Elinevsky

Class of 2001