Lack of Holocaust Education is Appalling

Dear Editor:

I am appalled at the lack of education regarding the Holocaust and comparisons made to the Oct. 7 massacre. The murder of even one Jew is felt by all of us; the murder of six million by the Nazis cannot even be understood. The pogrom we witnessed in Israel is the closest mass murder of Jews for many Jews living today. I did not know my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who died in Auschwitz, but I did grow up in a household of Holocaust survivors. I believe many of us in both cases have and will experience PTSD. The trauma is overwhelming and will pass from one generation to another. My cousin’s husband in Israel, a police officer was recently murdered while his young son watched. The ramifications of both are the same. I am dismayed at how many Jews, especially on the college campuses, know very little about the Shoah, the Holocaust. They do not understand and were not taught the terrible atrocities performed during the Holocaust by the Nazis and their supporters. Hitler wanted to murder all the in the world; Hamas has the same intention.

Sincerely
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Edison, NJ

Stop Redrawing the Map of Israel

Dear Editor:

It is not the responsibility of Fox News to redraw the map of Israel. I love Fox and attribute this error to ignorance and not malice. Shannon was interviewing Steve Witkoff on his peace-making efforts in Europe and the Middle East. For a few seconds, a map of Israel was flashed on the screen. It showed Gaza and Israel. However, the whole of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) was shown as part of Jordan.

This error prejudiced the piece. The Fox producer needs an education.

Israel’s border was drawn in 1920 at San Remo, when a series of mandates were created following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in WW1. The British Mandate for Palestine was defined as the reconstituted homeland of the Jews. In 1922, the League of Nations ratified the San Remo accords, and in 1945, article 80 of the UN charter stated that what was promised the Jews at San Remo cannot be over-ridden..

The 1947 UN partition plan (resolution 181) was a recommendation to split the mandate between Jews and Arabs, in violation of article 80. The Zionists agreed to share the land, but the Arabs, under the leadership of Nazi War criminal, Haj Amin al-Husseini, (now escaped from French captivity to Beirut) refused and launched a war to ‘drive the Jews into the sea.’ 5 Arab armies joined in. They failed. This humiliation became known as the Nakba.

The fighting lasted from 1947 to 1949, ending with an armistice. Jordan and Egypt occupied Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Every Jew in these territories was killed or forced out, their synagogues destroyed and their properties turned over to Arab squatters.

Israel recaptured the area in 1967 and offered to make peace, giving the Arabs Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Arab Leaders met in Khartoum and agreed to ‘no peace, no negotiations and no recognition of Israel’.

The 1993-1995 Oslo accords allowed 100,000 PLO supporters to set up shop in Israel while working on a final peace deal.

The 2000 Camp David Summit, between Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat, gave the Arabs everything they asked for, but Arafat refused and started the 2nd Intifada, murdering 1,300 Israelis and wounded thousands more.

Trump’s peace plan in 2020 would have re-organized the map. It gave the Palestinians slightly more land than they occupied in 1967, plus a $50 billion development plan. The PA rejected the plan, offering no alternative.

A Netanyahu government means strength to fight terrorism. It means standing up to left-wing politicians, NGO’s and media. It means opening the door for the Arab League to help the Palestinians end their intransigence, make peace with themselves, accept the consequences of Oct. 7, 2023 and recognize Israel as part of the Middle East.

Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of “Unfinished Work”
Deerfield Beach, Fl.

Trump Is Right to Threaten Iran With Military Action

Dear Editor:

President Trump’s recent warning to Iran—stating unequivocally that military action remains on the table if the Islamic Republic refuses to abandon its nuclear ambitions—is not only justified, it is urgently necessary. For far too long, successive administrations have placated the regime in Tehran, hoping that appeasement and misguided diplomacy would curtail its path toward nuclear weapons. Trump, by contrast, recognizes the truth: Iran does not seek peace—it seeks hegemony, and a nuclear-armed Iran would unleash chaos across the globe.

Iran is not merely a state; it is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Its proxy network stretches from the mountains of Lebanon to the deserts of Yemen and the streets of Gaza. The Houthis, who have been attacking international shipping lanes and threatening regional trade routes, are an Iranian extension. Hamas, whose October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians shocked the world, survives almost entirely due to Iranian financing and weaponry. And Hezbollah, Iran’s flagship terrorist proxy, remains embedded on Israel’s northern border with tens of thousands of missiles pointed directly at Israeli cities—many supplied by Tehran.

None of these actors exist in a vacuum. Their operations—kidnapping, bombing, drone attacks, missile strikes—are enabled, funded, and directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. And all of them serve one purpose: to advance Iranian regional dominance by undermining U.S. allies, threatening Israel, and destabilizing moderate Arab states. A nuclear-armed Iran would embolden these groups exponentially. If this regime acquires nuclear weapons, the threat matrix expands far beyond the Middle East—it becomes a global nightmare.

President Trump understands that the only language the regime in Tehran respects is strength. His administration’s maximum pressure campaign effectively crippled the Iranian economy and denied the regime access to funds that would otherwise flow to terrorist groups. By withdrawing from the deeply flawed 2015 nuclear deal, which offered sanctions relief in exchange for temporary and unverifiable limitations, Trump made clear that the United States would not be blackmailed by a regime that chants “Death to America” while secretly enriching uranium.

And let us not ignore the enabling roles of Russia and China in this crisis. Both Moscow and Beijing have forged strategic alliances with Iran—arming its military, shielding it diplomatically at the UN, and facilitating its oil exports in defiance of sanctions. Russia has relied on Iranian drones to attack Ukraine, while China purchases Iranian oil and props up its economy. These global authoritarian regimes see a nuclear Iran not as a threat, but as a useful partner in their shared campaign to weaken the West and upend the U.S.-led international order.

President Trump’s message is clear: if diplomacy fails, the United States will not stand idly by. This is not a call for war—it is a call for deterrence. Peace through strength has always been the cornerstone of American security. Trump knows that the only way to stop Iran is to make clear that the cost of crossing the nuclear threshold will be unbearable.

Sincerely
Yoav Kupinsky
Passaic, NJ