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Letter: U.S. shares blame for Middle East violence

What happens when our friends behave badly? What happens when we behave badly? Apparently, nothing. I speak of the slaughter of innocents in Gaza. I won’t pretend Hamas isn’t lobbing rockets, but what is the measured response? Surely, more than 50 killed and 2,000 wounded in one day, in addition to 41 killed and the 9,000 wounded in previous weeks, is “overkill.” Where is the outrage? Where is the conscience of America?

I suspect an orchestrated effort to draw Iran into a shooting war, not with surrogates — Yemen and Syria — but between Israel and the U.