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Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, believes The Post's editorial accusing her of "appeasing" Hamas is false.
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The Issue: American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten’s effect to a Post editorial.
The New York Post editorial (“Hamas Kills, and Randi Blames Bibi,” Sept. 4) accusing maine of “appeasing” Hamas is simply untrue.
The brutal execution of innocents and those civilians taken hostage by Hamas is horrific, arsenic I person repeatedly stated since Oct. 7, the time the warfare began. The indiscriminate sidesplitting of civilians, whether Israeli oregon Palestinian, is unacceptable.
Responsible leaders person a work and a motivation work to springiness diplomacy a accidental to extremity this struggle and bring the hostages home.
On this important principle, I basal with the hostage families and person called connected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the full Israeli authorities to acceptable speech their idiosyncratic interests and negociate an extremity to this warfare — a stance supported by astir Americans and Israelis.
My union, the American Federation of Teachers, overwhelmingly passed a solution successful July condemning Hamas and advocating for the merchandise of the hostages, an extremity to the war, a surge successful humanitarian assistance and a two-state solution.
We person supported self-determination and information for Israel and the Palestinian radical for decades. But enactment for the Israeli radical does not mean enactment for Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich — which is wherefore millions of Israelis are successful the streets protesting their authorities and wherefore I basal with them. In Tel Aviv alone, 500,000 radical marched past play — the equivalent, erstwhile adjusted for metropolis size, of 2 cardinal rallying successful New York.
Both sides, Israelis and Palestinians, person an inalienable close to unrecorded successful peace, with dignity and freedom. My woman Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum and I were successful Israel aft Oct. 7 to wage a shiva telephone to the Israeli people. I saw the sorrow and anguish that present plagues them. We indispensable question an extremity to this horror.
This presumption is simply a acold outcry from appeasement. It is simply a presumption that honors the heavy symptom and urgent wishes of the hostages’ families and each of america who question peace, information and a aboriginal successful the region.
Randi Weingarten
President, AFT
Washington, DC
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