"Having visited Israel last year for a couple of weeks does not give me any definitive insight into the horrifying events occurring this week in that country. Nor does my Jewish heritage (from my mother’s side) somehow give me a unique platform to write with authority about what many Jews are feeling about the attack by Hamas terrorists," writes Opinion Editor Don Miller. "But reading about, and watching from the safety of Santa Cruz County, the attacks are yet another reminder, as if we need one, of the hatred directed toward Jews and Israel."