I couldn’t believe my eyes reading William Slavick’s guest column, “Obama’s U.N. speech ends ‘peace process’” (Sept. 25).

Slavick speaks of his continuing feeling of shame for his previous blindness to racism as a native Southerner, going on to say that because of his education at Notre Dame, today, “I have no tolerance for racism.”

Incredibly, his very next statement about the Jewish state of Israel asserts, “The Zionist enterprise has been racist from its inception.”

He goes on to say that “the United States has, since Harry Truman, abandoned the Palestinians to ethnic cleansing in the interest of re-election.”

He labels President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arguments in favor of Israel “racist.”

He talks about Israeli intransigence and “inhuman” occupation and the “absurdity” of Israel’s precondition that Palestinians recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Slavick ends his astonishing column with these words: “… and increasing world impatience with racist Israeli brutality.”

As a child and teenager in Hitler’s Germany, I was well-aware of racist Nazi brutality against Jewish fellow citizens who had contributed so much to German culture and Western civilization.

The post-World War II revelations of the unprecedented, horrific Nazi crimes against the Jewish people during the Holocaust have changed us and the world forever.

Allow me to say “thank you” to Joel Goodman of Auburn for his beautiful rebuttal, “Column filled with half-truths (and untruths)” (Sept. 30), to Slavick’s scandalous and derogatory piece against the Jewish state of Israel.

Klaus D. Kuck, Lewiston