Is a Hamas government in anyone’s interest?

Recently, a letter to the editor began with, “Jews were easy to empathize with after the Holocaust details were revealed”.

What is one to make of this? Apparently, it wasn’t easy to empathize with Jews before the Holocaust, when strict immigration quotas around the world (including here in the U.S.) resulted in Jews being rounded up, beaten, raped and murdered?

The writer further opined that it remained easy to empathize with Jews so long as Israel had a left-leaning government. Yet again, Jews were beaten, raped and murdered on Oct. 7, but now that the Isreali government has turned politically right, apparently Jews no longer deserve empathy? Wow.

Personally, I do not support the current government of Israel. But at what point did Hamas become “a left-leaning and staunchly democratic” government? I suggest that each of us needs to decide, is it in America’s best interest for Hamas and their terrorist brothers and sisters-in-arms to rule the Middle East? (And then, once again, in the language of Auschwitz, send all the Jews “up the chimney.”)

As a proud Jew and a son of Holocaust survivors, I want to make this absolutely clear: I never asked for anyone’s empathy. I never needed anyone’s empathy. And most importantly: I never wanted anyone’s empathy.

Ron Coppel

Schaumburg