In her letter (Jan. 3) complaining about a headline stating that a Palestinian injured an Israeli boy by stoning, Kathleen Kienitz appears to agree that the headline was indeed correct. Palestinians did injure an Israeli. Her letter fails to mention that the stones aimed at Israeli civilians and soldiers are more often the size of bricks or pieces of concrete blocks, not mere pebbles.

To carry it even further, we should not forget other headlines from the past describing the murder of three Israeli teens, the murder of a young couple and their infant child, the bombing at a pizza shop and the running down of Israelis at a bus stop. All were perpetrated by Palestinians who deserved the negative headlines.

She charges that Israeli soldiers raid Palestinian homes and control movements of the Palestinian population by enforcing checkpoints. The “raids” are to arrest those who break the law, just as is done here in Maine. The checkpoints became necessary when Palestinian terrorists slipped into towns and cities to blow up innocents. I would bet that the checkpoints would stop if the terror stopped.

The West Bank that she refers to as Palestinian land is actually disputed territory. It was part of Jordan prior to Israel becoming a state, many years before the so-called “Palestinians” came into being, and was part of the land lived in by Jews since biblical times.

The headline was indeed truthful and accurate.

Joel Goodman, Auburn