Guest Commentary | Open letter to US Rep. Jimmy Panetta

Guest Commentary | Open letter to US Rep. Jimmy Panetta

By Tim McGirk Next time you gaze across our bay, imagine a line from Santa Cruz to Pacific Grove. Next, a line between Santa Cruz and Capitola. That’s roughly the length and width of Gaza. It’s far smaller than your 19th District, congressman. Now, imagine that placid space crammed with more than 2 million people under a firestorm of air strikes and ground assaults. That’s the Gaza Strip, where over 60,000 Gazans have been killed since October 2…