DEAR EDITOR:

This may be my last letter to the editor.

People everywhere, not just in the U.S., are failing themselves and each other by simply believing instead of thinking. The biggest lie in the Bible causing most of humanity’s problems is the one where men wrote, not God, that Israel is the chosen nation and (Israelis) the chosen people of God. It is easier to believe than to think what that means; and we see today exactly what that means.

Israel has been able to recruit and use people – persuading them into killing children and committing genocide, all under the false lie/belief that Israel is the chosen people of God. If you believe you’re doing God’s will without thinking about what it is you are doing, you will do things you would not ever have considered doing — like killing children with no regard, which is not God’s will.

The proof is in action and the action is clear regarding Israel. It is our (the U.S.) fault, for creating Israel the way we did, using the United Nations in 1948. The U.S. was a segregated apartheid-style government until the 1960s, when we passed the Civil Rights Act. Our Constitution said everyone is equal; but in practice everyone was not equal. Black GIs were denied the benefits of the GI Bill, by law. Even though the Constitution clearly said that was not allowed.

It was easy to set up Israel the same way because of the U.S.’s position as the sole nuclear power in the world — and people were afraid to go against us. Instead of using that power to create a “two- state solution” then, we went with the Israel apartheid-style of governing and did terrible, wrong things to the Palestinian people — then and ever since.

People in America believed in America and belief, without thinking, is what has caused this to happen. It caused the Vietnam War and the overthrowing of the newly elected Iranian government that decades later caused the Iranian revolution and our 9/11. Our blind faith in the U.S. kept us from thinking why all this happened; our belief blinds us.

The U.S. needs a leader to admit our recent wrongs and we need to do something to fix it as best we can through repenting and asking forgiveness. We can not fix all we have done with money; only forgiveness can pay the cost of our country’s sins. We all have to forgive each other.

We need to lead with our people’s values. Not fixing a small mistake leads to worse results. Not fixing a big mistake, like Israel, leads to much worse results.

LEIF DAMSTOFT

Warren