Seventeen years ago, as a freshman at Brown, I wrote an op-ed for The Herald responding to the vandalism and destruction of synagogues and Jewish-built
In his column on Monday ("Let the death penalty live," Oct. 30), Michael Ramos-Lynch '09 argued that while the implementation of the death penalty is far from perfect, the benefits of retaining it as a policy outweigh the costs.
It's worth noting that the first priority of the newly liberated Palestinians in Gaza was the destruction and vandalism of roughly two dozen synagogues, the only traces of the Jewish presence in the region and of the 38-year Israeli occupation.
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