|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Ending Israel’s ‘ongoing Nakba’?
Dear Editor:
Here is the history of the Nakba.
- The San Remo Accords established mandates for Palestine (the Jewish state), Lebanon (the Christian state) and Syria, Iraq and Transjordan.
- The League of Nations resolution affirmed Palestine was the reconstituted Jewish homeland.
1922-1948. The Arab population of the mandate for Palestine doubled.
- Article 80 of the United Nations charter affirmed what was promised the Jews was inviable.
- In defiance of Article 80, the UN suggested splitting the mandate into Arab and Jewish states. The Jews accepted. The Arabs did not.
- Britain gave up its mandate. Israel declared its independence. Local militias and 5 Arab armies attacked Israel to ‘drive the Jews into the sea.”
700,000 Arabs fled Israel. 1,000,000 Jews fled to Israel from Arab lands.
The Nakba was the failed attempt to destroy the nascent state of Israel. 76 years later, the Arabs still carry the burden of this shame.
Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Ontario, CANADA
Biden Has Abandoned Israel
Dear Editor:
Anybody notice how the rhetoric from President Biden and Secretary Blinken gradually gets worse and worse? In the beginning, they said they were not calling for a ceasefire. Then it was “ceasefire and return some hostages.” Then “ceasefire and return some dead hostages.” Now it’s just “ceasefire.” Which means in plain English, Israel should stop firing at Hamas. Biden has abandoned Israel. I think he should pay for this at the polls and that means that those who support Israel, whether they be Jewish or not, should not cast their vote for him. It’s about time that we come to the realization that Israel no longer enjoys bipartisan support in Congress or in the Executive Branch.
Sincerely,
Don Steineman
Brooklyn
Gaza Cannot be a Haven for Terrorists
Dear Editor:
Thanks for your article about the pressure on Israel to let the Palestinian Authority take over Gaza. Everybody seems to forget that we tried that already. The PA was in charge of Gaza from 1994 until Hamas pushed them aside in 2007. During those years, Gaza was a haven for fugitive terrorists and the PA’s schools were incubators for future terrorists. Who needs that again? I distinctly remember the tragic evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza in 2005 and the demonstrations that took place to prevent this calamity. Those opposed to the late Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan predicted that Gaza would become a launching pad for Hamas rockets and sadly they were correct.
Sincerely
Nan Gerber
Flatbush
Let the IDF Finish the Job
Dear Editor;
In the last few days, Israeli forces in Gaza have recovered the bodies of four hostages who were murdered by Arab terrorists on October 7. In the weeks before that, the Biden administration was pressuring Israel to release terrorists from its prison—and stop its war against Hamas—in exchange for dead bodies of hostages. If the Israelis had foolishly listened to that bad advice, more killers would be roaming the streets today. Let Israel’s soldiers finish the job!
Sincerely
Norma Berger
Flatbush
Palestinian Statehood Not a “Consensus Position”
Dear Editor:
Many American supporters of Israel and Israeli politicians are excited about President Trump’s new statements against Palestinian statehood. But there has been lots of disinformation accompanying this praise too. On a popular Jewish news website one analyst wrote that Trump’s comments were “a significant pivot away from what has largely been a consensus position on the conflict among US politicians for decades.”
The thing is that Palestinian statehood hasn’t been the consensus position, either during the entire period since 1948 nor in recent decades. American presidents have favored Palestinian statehood in only 22 of the past 76 years and inconsistently at that.
In 2002, George W. Bush became the first sitting American president to endorse creation of a Palestinian Arab state. But it is not correct to say that Palestinian statehood has been a “consensus position among US politicians” for the past two decades. That’s because while the Republican Party platform did endorse Bush’s position in 2004, 2008 and 2012, the GOP pointedly removed that clause from its 2016 platform and did not restore it in 2020—meaning that Palestinian statehood has not been the Republican Party’s position for the past eight years.
Sincerely,
Moshe Phillips
Pennsylvania
Schumer is No “Shomer”
Dear Editor:
You reported that the Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a bill to force President Biden to send those bombs to Israel—but Sen. Charles Schumer refuses to let the bill come up for a vote in the Senate. This is the man who claims to be a “shomer” of Israel? Is he kidding? No matter who runs against him in the next election, I’m voting for his opponent. Schumer has let his constituents down for political gain in order to do the bidding of the Biden administration. I only wish that Orthodox Jewish organizations in Brooklyn would stop inviting him to their legislative breakfasts where they lavish praise on him as though he is the messiah.
Sincerely
Eugene Nirlander
Boro Park
