Mamdani Will Embolden Terror

Dear Editor:

The Democrats of New York City have nominated Zohar Mamdani, an openly antisemitic Islamist and socialist to be their candidate in the next mayoralty election. This does not bode well for the city that was attacked on 9-11, nor for the rest of America.

The Infidel world has been under assault since 1928, when Hassan al-Banna formed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Countries were classified into three categories. Dar al-Islam are states under Sharia law. Dar al-sulh are territories friendly with Muslims and dar al-harb is the ‘house of war’.

Israel, the ‘Small Satan’, with the assist of America, the ‘Great Satan’, has humiliated dar al-Islam to its core.

Gazan Palestinians swarmed and ravished southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Hezbollah, in Lebanon, joined in as a diversionary tactic. The chief planner and financer of Hamas’s terror infrastructure was Iran. All of them have been seriously diminished and are unhappy. They will sign agreements but, like the tale of the scorpion and the frog, they will not change. Taqiyya, lying to the enemy to gain an advantage, is expected and respected in Islam.

Just as 40,000 dormant web-sites sprung into action, with flags and placards and tents appearing on campuses the day after Oct. 7, the organizations behind these radicals are intact. We know there are sleeper-cells everywhere in the West, awaiting instructions. We must be diligent. Mamdani’s election will embolden those planning trouble.

Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of
‘Unfinished Work’
Deerfield Beach, Fl.

Double Standard Applied to Israel

Dear Editor:

The international chorus demanding that Israel increase food deliveries into Gaza has reached a fever pitch, but it is a demand that ignores both morality and reality. No other nation in the world is ever expected to feed the very enemy that openly seeks its destruction. Yet when it comes to Israel, the global community not only expects it, but lectures it daily as if this were a reasonable obligation of any sovereign state.

Let us be clear: the recipient of this humanitarian aid is not, in practice, the civilian population of Gaza. It is Hamas. Time and again, Israel has provided safe routes for aid convoys, opened border crossings for shipments, and even undertaken airdrops with the cooperation of neighboring Arab states. And time and again, documented evidence has shown Hamas gunmen looting, seizing, and diverting that aid for their own use—whether to sustain their fighters, resupply their war effort, or simply tighten their chokehold on the very civilians the international community claims to champion.

Israel National News and other reputable outlets have shown videos of Hamas operatives intercepting food convoys, stealing packages at gunpoint, and preventing the supplies from reaching families in desperate need. Israel delivers aid, but Hamas ensures it never reaches the intended recipients. The real tragedy is not that Israel is failing to provide food—because it is—but that Hamas is weaponizing hunger itself, using aid as a tool of extortion and control.

And yet, despite this undeniable reality, Israel is singled out for criticism. No one pressures Hamas to stop stealing food. No one pressures Qatar or Iran, Hamas’s principal sponsors, to provide for the Palestinian people whom they claim to champion. Instead, the finger is always pointed at Jerusalem, as if Israel alone bears responsibility for the welfare of a population governed by a terrorist organization bent on its annihilation.

This is a grotesque double standard. During World War II, no one demanded that Britain airlift supplies to Nazi Germany. No one suggested that America ship food to Imperial Japan while still engaged in brutal combat. The expectation would have been absurd. Yet in Israel’s case, that very absurdity has become international policy.

Israel, of course, will continue to allow aid into Gaza because it values human life—even the lives of civilians trapped under Hamas’s tyranny. But the world must acknowledge the truth: humanitarian crises in Gaza are not the result of Israel’s policies, but of Hamas’s theft, exploitation, and deliberate strategy of using its own people as pawns in a propaganda war.

If the world truly wants to alleviate Palestinian suffering, it should direct its pressure not at Israel, but at Hamas, and at the states that finance and arm it. Anything less is not humanitarianism—it is complicity in Hamas’s crimes.

Respectfully,
Levi Bergstein
Kiryat Arba, Israel

The Epstein Files as a Political Weapon

Dear Editor:

The recent release of the Epstein files has been seized upon with a fervor that suggests less a search for justice than a political weapon. Predictably, Democrats and their allies in the media have used the documents as a bludgeon to distract from President Donald Trump’s extraordinary accomplishments of the past seven months. At every turn, rather than acknowledge historic successes in economic policy, foreign affairs, and national security, the opposition seeks to change the subject to lurid speculation about Jeffrey Epstein—a disgraced predator whose crimes are being cynically exploited to undermine Trump’s momentum.

Consider the record. In just over half a year, President Trump has secured the passage of the landmark “One Big Beautiful Bill,” delivering the largest middle-class tax cut in American history and enshrining permanent protections for working families. He has overseen decisive strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, reaffirmed America’s unyielding alliance with Israel, and facilitated bold humanitarian initiatives in the Middle East—all while expanding domestic energy production, strengthening border security, and driving unemployment to record lows. These are achievements that no fair observer could ignore. Yet the Democratic strategy is clear: bury this record under the avalanche of Epstein gossip, as though innuendo can erase accomplishment.

Even more troubling is the willingness of some commentators to indulge in baseless conspiracy theories that malign America’s most reliable ally. Tucker Carlson’s assertion that Jeffrey Epstein was somehow an agent of Israel’s Mossad is not only without evidence—it is beyond ridiculous. Such claims recycle the oldest and ugliest tropes of anti-Israel conspiracy, casting the Jewish state as the shadowy manipulator behind world events. There is no documentation, no intelligence corroboration, no testimony of substance to support Carlson’s claim. It is innuendo masquerading as insight, and it insults both the intelligence of his audience and the integrity of Israel’s intelligence services.

World Israel News and Israel National News have consistently reported the proven facts: Epstein was a criminal with high-level connections across the political spectrum. His enablers and co-conspirators span continents and affiliations, from Wall Street to Hollywood to royal families. What is missing—conspicuously so—is any verifiable evidence of Mossad involvement. Carlson’s assertion collapses under even the most cursory scrutiny, and yet it provides fodder for those who would gladly weaponize antisemitic stereotypes in the guise of political analysis.

Let us be clear. Israel’s Mossad has dedicated itself to protecting the Jewish people and defending the State of Israel against terrorism, nuclear threats, and existential dangers. To reduce its work to tabloid-style innuendo about Jeffrey Epstein is to slander an institution that has been central to global counterterrorism efforts, often in close partnership with the United States. Such claims play directly into the hands of those who wish to delegitimize Israel on the world stage.

The Epstein files must not become a cudgel with which to smear President Trump or vilify Israel. Justice for Epstein’s victims is paramount, but justice is not served by political theater or conspiratorial speculation. President Trump’s record stands on its own merit, and Israel’s reputation as America’s most steadfast ally should not be tarnished by baseless allegations.

Sincerely,
Jill Halberstam
Pomona, NY