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The destruction in Gaza amid hostilities between Israel and Hamas shows how Palestinians are treated as "less than human" and the Jewish State engages in "unfathomable carelessness" to achieve its goals, two Inland Empire residents from Palestine said, while a Riverside rabbi equated condemnations of Israel with "antisemitism," and a member of a Corona synagogue viewed Hamas' actions as forcing Israel to react.

For six generations since emigrating from Mexico to America, Clarissa Renteria’s family never voted. If any campaign mailers arrived during election season, Renteria’s parents — who both worked as warehouse workers in Woodlake, an agricultural town of 7,600 in California’s citrus belt — would throw them away.

Riverside County homeowners were reminded that the first installment on their property tax bills will be due beginning Nov. 1, and no later than Dec. 11 to avoid penalties.

Americans were horrified at the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli villagers on October 7 this year. The brutality and futility of the attack rocked the imagination. Yet within days, we witnessed huge protest marches in U.S. and world capitals and universities in favor of Hamas.

Nearly 82 years ago, my father was born in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When he was only 3 weeks old, his own father, Max, was captured and murdered by Nazis; my dad survived because he was hidden by a series of Christian foster homes.