Survivor of the 1940 bombing of Rotterdam responds to Proclamation | Letter
Published 1:30 am Friday, January 19, 2024
Dear councilors,
You are fully entitled to your personal opinions, no matter how difficult they might be to debate or defend.
That said, with the unanimous resolution concerning the Israel-Hamas war, you have put on full display:
very poor judgment, lousy representation of the islands’ population, cluelessness about military strategy and a pitiful ignorance of history!
Ary Hobbel
Friday Harbor
(Survivor of the 1940 bombing of Rotterdam; son of members of the WW2 ‘underground railroad’ and veteran of 10 years as European fighter pilot during the Cold War)
Ary Hobbel
Friday Harbor
