I read in disbelief "Maccabi Games Issue" in which Mr. Sabalos calls it "grotesque to view photographs depicting the smiling faces of healthy JCC Maccabi participants....." Does he know that there were Access players who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities? Is he aware that there were athletes from Ukraine? Yes, innocent teens just trying to live their lives while dealing with the horrors of Putin's war? By the writer's reasoning, the games should not have been allowed in any city, not just Tucson.
What is truly grotesque is that we can't play, pray, attend school, or go about our lives without massive amounts of security. His antisemitism fuels those flames.
And the ignorance in comparing the ongoing terrible situation in Gaza with the Nazis who engaged in a systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews. It's high time for Mr. Sabalos to visit the Tucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center. I will be happy to show him around and educate him. And please capitalize Holocaust.
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Mitchell Flatow
West side
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