Franz Gwiazdon Julio (Gater, March 30) has stirred controversy. Jon L. Deavers' letter (Gater, April 6), retorts with absurd distortions of facts. Deavers begins his letter with an attack on Julio's column, calling it a "waste" of newspaper space. But, by making that very statement, Deavers proves the essence of Julio's argument which emphasized that blind nationalism leads to "false" supremacy, racial arrogance and close mindedness. Julio suggests that one "should not be so quick to condone any nationalism." But Deavers quickly, without leaving the smallest chance for discussion, closes the debate before it even starts. His letter presents the attitude, "I AM RIGHT. YOU'RE WRONG, SO SHUT UP," which is insulting to the human intelligence. Deavers writes that "there is nothing in Zionist ideals that would promote or even tolerate the oppression of others." Deavers ignores not only that the Zionist movement promotes racism and oppression, but embodied in the Israeli government, is its tool. The oppressive State of Israel is a Zionist government in the same manner as it's said that the United States is a capitalist government. If Deavers wants to be unblinded, I suggest that he personally pay visits to the hundreds of thousands of families whose children and/or parents have either vanished or been jailed, maimed, paralyzed, killed or deported. Along with more than three million other Palestinians, I have not been allowed to return home, nor will be under the "peace accord". The claim that Julio can't provide evidence for his argument on the Zionist oppression "because there isn't any" reminds me of the anti-Jewish, neo-Nazi claim that the holocaust never happened. The holocaust is a historical fact. So is Zionist oppression. Julio said the truth and, in the words of Aldous Huxley, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."