Letters to the Editor

The Growing Unified Mob

Dear Editor:

I sat next to a soldier in Israel, post 2015’s Operation Protective Edge. He told me the IDF went house-to-house to avoid civilian casualties, despite the greater risk it presented for their own soldiers. He choked up telling me his best friend and fellow soldier was killed in that operation yet the media still blamed Israel. Why? He asked me with tears in his eyes. I had no answers for him. I gently put my hand on his arm and said,  “If they sent all the Jews to Mars, they’d still be blaming us for the so-called “Palestinian” Arab and world’s woes.

The media is loud only when they can blame Israel but silent about Israel’s effort to avoid civilian casualties. “Col. Kemp noted that avoiding civilian casualties in a terrorist stronghold such as Jenin “is even more remarkable given that the terrorists in Jenin hid behind the civilian population, used human shields and deliberately tried to lure the IDF into killing civilians in order to attract world condemnation.”

Gatestone: “The League of Arab States… has spent several decades issuing statements of condemnation against Israel. Each time Israel launches a counterterrorism operation in response to Palestinian terrorism, including rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel and shooting, stabbing and car-ramming attacks, it is denounced. The same League of Arab States, however, has no problem embracing an Arab president (Assad)  whose regime has killed hundreds of thousands of Arabs, including Palestinians and Syrians…who chemically burned entire villages of civilians…”

Palestinian Media Watch documents systemic Jew hate on official Palestinian TV and widespread use, as fact, of the hateful, completely fake, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Leading Palestinian Muslim clerics have declared on television that Jews are apes and pigs, cursed, and subhuman.”

Will I wake up tomorrow and see headlines that say all American Jewish organizations, (who were quick to blast Israel for their court issues), have finally decided to put aside their differences, are funding our very own Public Relations Agency to expose and condemn the “Palestinian” Jew hate speech, are refuting each of the media’s Big Lies with full page ads, billboards and demanding the media report fairly.  Will I hear massive calls to stop funding the United Nations unless and until it stops being a cesspool of Israel hate? Or are we going to wait until they are at our doorsteps this time?

Sincerely
Ginette Weiner
Scottsdale, AZ

US Must Increase its Defense Authorization Act Now

Dear Editor:

Every year, Congress passes a Defense Authorization Act, which allocates the resources to supply US armed forces. To avert war, Congress should have dramatically raised the proposed budget of $886.3 for fiscal year 2024 to close the gaps with its main adversaries, China, Russia, and Iran. A strong US military is likely to deter its enemies.

The US must be prepared to fight physical kinetic wars with all these enemies and their proxies. During and after WW2, the US had a two-simultaneous war strategy. It must move to a fully funded three-war plan as quickly as possible.

An extra challenge is that each of these enemies presents different geographical theaters. The Russian front requires traditional land war weapons. The China front requires aircraft carriers, destroyers, aircraft, refueling capabilities, and long-range anti-ship missiles, while the Iranian front requires a combination of both.

Having sent over $40 billion of weapons to aid Ukraine in the past two years, the US must replenish this inventory at home and abroad in Europe, the Middle East, Israel, and South Korea as fast as possible. To improve the supply chain’s resilience, the US must offer long-term contracts of at least three to six years to its weapons manufacturers so they can plan accordingly.

The US must spend an extra $2-4 billion annually on the Navy and long-range anti-ship missiles. On the Russian front, it has to increase its spending on ground-to-ground artillery and missiles, particularly long rang ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems). It must spend an extra $2-4 billion in the Middle East on naval resources and long-range missile systems. In addition, it must increase its spending to build up its anti-missile defenses against a potential North Korean and Iranian nuclear attack. It also must fulfill our $14 billion backlog of promised weapons to Taiwan. Simultaneously, the US must learn to adopt innovative and cheaper solutions faster, whenever possible, to fill gaps in its capabilities.

In net, the US must immediately increase its defense budget by $20-40 billion annually in weapons procurement to defeat the Russian army, while intimidating China and Iran from testing its abilities and resolve.

The US must also convince its NATO allies to spend at least two percent of their GDP on national defense, though four percent is more appropriate.

Raising spending on national defense is expensive, but the investment is well worth it. A strong military could prevent a much more costly war!

Sincerely
Ken Abramowitz

Cocaine Use at the White House???

Dear Editor,

The recent revelations about the presence of cocaine in the White House has left me confused. This constantly changing story comes in the midst of a four year old mystery, still unraveling over Hunter Biden’s laptop that includes clear and distinct evidence that he is a drug addict, that includes the use of cocaine and other such poisons. We, the public, have been lied to so many times over the last 2+ years by this administration, that we no longer believe anything coming out of the mouth of the cutie-pie Press Secretary or anyone else in the administration, including Big Joe, himself.

The location of this stash of drugs has changed over the past week and it may eventually be revealed by the White House controlled Secret Service, FBI and Justice Department, that it was a left over from the Trump family’s residence in that building. Nothing would surprise us. Surely, the person having found “the baggie,” must have immediately been ordered to write a written report as to where and when it was discovered. Why not let the public read this disclosure? Why change the location as fits the day’s situation, as made by the White House?

Surely, Hunter is the culprit and once again, he’s being protected by his Dad, who may also be involved in the use of drugs. Who knows? But it is we, the public who must know. And the sooner the better. How much longer can we let this and all the other mysteries within the White House continue to rot and destroy our nation? They are all (in the family) a bunch of pigs.

 Thanks,
 Cheryl Estrich
Woodmere, NY