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To the editor:
President Trump has taken a page out of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza playbook for use in his own ICE detention centers.
Netanyahu killed or starved civilians, deprived the injured and ill and pregnant mothers of medical care and children of schooling, and displaced folks within their own country. His hope was that families would want to leave the country and never come back.
Now comes testimony from Leqaa Koria, a Columbia University student recently released from ICE detention after a year. ICE told her lawyer she was going to be taken to upstate New York, but she was taken to Texas instead.
She was refused any communication with her family or her lawyer and felt essentially “kidnapped.”
Conditions in the Texas detention center were like a “dungeon.”
She slept on the floor. There was no sunlight in the room. No health care was made available to the sick, injured or pregnant. Showers stopped working for two weeks. Her room was frequently filled to double its capacity. The food was “worse than dog food.”
She summarized her experience in terms a Gazan would understand very well, saying the detention center was “designed to make you beg for deportation.”
Kimball Shinkoskey
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Valete
This is another rediculous letter from the left regarding Netanyahu.
The Iranian regime:
The Iranian regime has engaged in a brutal crackdown against nationwide protests, with estimates suggesting thousands, potentially over 30,000, protesters have been killed. Security forces, including the IRGC, used live ammunition, targeting protestors' heads and torsos, while internet blackouts were employed to hide the scale of the violence.
Systematic Repression: S
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei authorized the crackdown, and Iranian authorities described the protesters as "rioters" and "terrorists".
Arrests and Torture:
Over 10,600 people were reported arrested, with many facing forced confessions under torture and expedited death sentences.
Method of Crackdown:
Security forces used machine guns and fired into crowds, with many victims aged 18–24. There are reports of mass burials and bodies being moved in vehicles to prevent accurate counts.
Siege of Rasht:
In one of the deadliest localized incidents, security forces allegedly trapped protesters in the Rasht Bazaar, set it on fire, and shot
those attempting to escape, resulting in nearly 400 deaths.
If you want to make comparisons, compare the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to Adolph Hitler, that would be more
Wednesday, April 15 Report this
fcannisi
Typical Word-y Man (Robert Sica) comment. Shift the focus from the obvious similarities between Netanyahu's genocidal campaign in Gaza and ICE's brutal treatment of detainees to a completely unrelated subject, Iran.
The reason for Sica's deflection is obvious - the tactics of both Netanyahu and ICE are indefensible and inhumane.
Friday, April 17 Report this
Valete
Shinkoskey’s musings are based on the testimony of an unreliable source, Leqaa Koria, a pro-Palestine activist who harbors strong negative sentiments towards Israel, America, Netanyahu, and Trump.
In a courtroom setting, Koria’s testimony would likely face swift challenges and be deemed invalid.
Tuesday, April 21 Report this