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Guterres’ Remarks Amount to Incitement
Dear Editor:
Unfounded and dangerous claims were recently made by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. He said that “the rejection of the two-State solution” by Israel “would … embolden extremists everywhere.” Guterres is wrong and his remarks amount to incitement. The civil wars in Syria and in Yemen have nothing to do with the Palestinians. The threat to the region from ISIS and Al-Qaeda, as well as instability in countries like Libya, have zero to do with Israel either. That the U.S. military conducted airstrikes in Somalia against the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab terrorists there recently had nothing to do with Israel or the Palestinians nor do the deadly Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes in mid-January. The UN needs to accept the fact that the world has now changed.
A “two-state solution” means a situation in which Israel will be threatened with an October 7th every single day. That is something no reasonable nation would accept and neither should Israel. Cajoling and trying to maneuver Israel to do something so dangerous is immoral. Israeli security is not the only consideration. Historical facts are also important. An Arab nation comprised of Palestinians was established in 1922, when the British unilaterally severed the eastern 78% of the Palestinian Mandate from the rest of the country, and changed that region’s name to “Transjordan”. Later, they changed it to “Jordan”. But changing a name doesn’t change the identity of its citizens. The vast majority of Jordanians are Palestinian Arabs according to their history, culture, and language. In other words, Jordan is already the Palestinian state that Guterres is claiming that the region needs.
Sincerely,
Moshe Phillips
Pennsylvania
Rejecting Calls to Scale Back Gaza Attacks
Dear Editor:
What is the matter with the liberal ostriches? Why do they not believe what Palestinians tell them over and over again?
The Palestinians do not want a 2-state solution. They want a state of Palestine, based on Sharia law, replacing Israel and its people.
The leader of the Arabs during the British Mandate for Palestine was Nazi war criminal Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He instigated pogroms against the Jews from the 1920s to the 40s. He spent WWII in Germany. He created the Bosnian Muslim 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar and intervened to send 4000 Jewish Hungarian children to the gas chambers.
He was captured by France, who let him escape to Cairo.
In 1947, when the United Nations suggested partitioning the reconstituted Jewish homeland into Arab and Jewish states, the Zionists accepted, but the Mufti refused and launched the Nakba to ‘drive the Jews into the sea’.
The war ended in a truce. Transjordan occupied Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Egypt took Gaza. They had no interest is establishing a border for a ‘Palestinian’ state as there was no concept of a Palestinian people.
In 1964 the Soviet KGB formed the Palestinian Liberation Organization as a propaganda tool to diminish American influence in the Middle East. They simply called Israel, excluding the West Bank and Gaza, which were under Arab control, ‘Palestine’ and the Arabs, ‘Palestinians’. An Egyptian, Yasser Arafat became the first Palestinian and leader of the PLO.
In 1967, Egypt, Syria and Jordan tried to wipe out Israel and lost the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. Israel offered Jordan and Egypt the West Bank and Gaza in exchange for a permanent peace. The Arabs response was Khartoum’s 3 No’s… No to peace, No to recognition and No to negotiation with Israel.
Have you got the message yet?
After years of PLO terror, which brought the Palestinian hoax to the world’s attention, Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn in 1993. The details were finalized at Taba two years later.
Arafat made it perfectly clear to his critics that the pact was like the Prophet’s treaty with the Quraysh Jews. Mohammed broke that contract as soon as he was strong enough, slaughtered the men and took the woman as slaves.
The liberal West did not take Arafat at his word.
IN 2000, after rejecting everything he said he wanted at Camp David, he launched his suicide bombers against Israel, starting the 2nd Intifada.
Just to refresh your memory, the PLO charter calls for killing the Israelis, while Hamas’s calls for killing all Jews.
Just where is Israel supposed to find room to compromise with the Palestinians in order to have a 2-state solution?
Those Jewish Democrats criticizing Netanyahu and Israel for not promoting 2 states at this time, had better turn their attention to the Palestinians who carried out the Oct. 7th barbarism and the Islamists around the world who cheered for them.
There are 100 Muslims for every Jew in the world. There are 56 Islamic members and one Jewish member at the UN.
Israel deserves your unencumbered support.
Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Deerfield Beach, Florida
Tragic Death of 24 Israeli Soldiers
Dear Editor:
Thanks for your January 23 coverage of the tragic deaths of 24 Israeli soldiers in Gaza, and the plans for an investigation. But really, what’s the point of an investigation? We all know the reason it happened: because Israel keeps sending soldiers from house to house, instead of just bombing Gaza from the war. Bombing will kill more Arab civilians, but it will save the lives of many Israeli soldiers. Going house to house spares more Arab civilians, but kills more Israeli soldiers. The choice is very clear.
Sincerely,
Feivel Goodman
Boro Park
Sad History of US Pressure on Israel
Dear Editor:
Thanks for your January 28 report about the Biden administration delaying weapons to Israel in order to try to pressure the Israelis to stop shooting at Hamas.
Should we be surprised? Truman didn’t give Israel one bullet in 1948. Eisenhower pressured Israel to get out of the Sinai in 1956. Johnson wouldn’t lift a finger for Israel in 1967. Kissinger, with Nixon’s blessing, pressured Israel not to strike first in 1973. Ford cut off weapons to Israel in 1975. Reagan held up fighter jets to Israel in 1981 as punishment for hitting the Iraqi nuclear factories. Yes, the history of American support for Israel is littered with examples of presidents harshly pressuring Israel to make one-sided concessions to the Arabs, concessions that are never reciprocated.
Sincerely,
Moshe Blatt
Brooklyn