How do we know what Gaza’s people really feel? Flushing: Excellent op-ed by Jeffrey Herbst (” ‘Ordinary Gazans’ and Oct. 7,” Nov. 14), in which he cites Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s controversial book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.” I read this book while taking a sabbatical as a teacher at Francis Lewis High School. I also volunteer at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove, L.I. The book suggests that a unique and virulent form of antisemitism was a cornerstone of national identity, which grew out of medieval attitudes rooted in religion and later secularization. And...