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Voting With Their Feet
Dear Editor:
Ruth Messinger, a veteran New York City political figure, this week endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor.
Like Mamdani, Messinger has stirred controversy over the years because of her statements regarding Israel.
As a City Council member in 1978, Messinger abstained on a resolution condemning the Palestinian Arab terrorists who massacred 37 Israeli bus passengers and American Jewish nature photographer Gail Rubin.
Earlier this year, Messinger was a featured speaker at a rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of the Hamas-embracing Students for Justice in Palestine, at Columbia University.
Now that she has endorsed Mamdani, will Messinger be urging non-residents of New York City to change their claimed residency to the city in order to vote for him?
The question arises because last year, Messinger was so worried about possible Republican victories in upstate New York congressional races that she urged New York City residents “to make their second homes in upstate New York their primary residences so they can vote in swing districts come November,” according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
However, New York State law prohibits changing one’s claim of residency for temporary purposes. Election Law 1-104 states that one’s residency, for voting purposes, is “that place where a person maintains a fixed, permanent and principal home and to which he, wherever temporarily located, always intends to return.”
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman showed a similar ignorance of the law with regard to the run-off elections of the two U.S. senators from Georgia in 2020.
Friedman told CNN on November 8, 2020: “I hope everybody moves to Georgia, you know, in the next month or two, registers to vote, and votes for these two Democratic [candidates].”
But Georgia’s election law—GA Code § 21-2-217 (2019)(a)(2)—rejects any residency claim made “for temporary purposes only, with the intention of returning [to one’s home state].”
Friedman himself does not appear to have relocated to Georgia.
Sincerely
Prof. Rafael Medoff
Qatar & The Moslem Brotherhood
Dear Editor:
The Moslem Brotherhood has polluted western democratic societies. Qatar is its epicenter. Qatar finances Hamas terrorists, and all the hostile regimes encircling Israel.
Qatar spent 100 billion dollars on America’s most prestigious universities. They bought chairs of learning, indoctrinating two generations of leaders with anti-Infidel and anti-American ideology.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassas al-Banna. It was based on The Protocols of the Elfers of Zion, a fabricated text purporting to reveal a Jewish plot for global domination. The Protocols were plagiarized from numerous anti-Jewish documents popular in Imperial Russia in 1903. It is still a best-seller among Islamists.
The Brotherhood provides the rational for replacing Infidel states with a Caliphate. America, the leader of the Judeo-Christian world, is the ‘Great Satan’. It is the jewel in the crown; the ultimate goal. Israel, the ‘Small Satan’ is merely an impediment.
Qatar has unlimited funds to spread around, influencing politicians, business people and NG Os. Canada is a major money-laundering hub. Laws demanding the reporting of foreign funding are largely ignored. Canada’s undefended border gives easy access for clandestine entry into the U.S. The Brotherhood is using antisemitism to fragment the fabric of America, a technique successfully employed by Hitler as he stormed across Europe.
In America, the Brotherhood includes CAIR, tasked with infiltrating and influencing the government and military, and the Muslim Students’ Associations. The MS As are radical Islam’s arm in our universities, with thousands of chapters under various names, undermining our values, and allegiance to the homeland and funneling money to Hamas. Similar deviant entities are present throughout the free world.
And yet, America is close to Qatar, with its largest Mid-east base, Al Udeid Air Base, located there. So, why can’t President Trump get the remaining hostages freed?
Sincerely
Len Bennett,
Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Author Needs to Correct the Record
Dear Editor:
David Mamet’s op-ed “Sorry, Billionaires—There’s No Escape” (Aug. 7) establishes that, come the apocalypse, no amount of money will help the ultrarich reach safety because their aides will revolt and take over.
To emphasize his point, Mr. Mamet includes a colorful sentence about historic Middle Eastern military slavery: “The Ottoman Turks raised enslaved Mamelukes to the status first of guards and then of administrators, and all was well until the ‘Lukes did the math and realized they didn’t need the Turks.”
I hate to seem pedantic, but the Journal’s reputation for accuracy impels this author of the book Slave Soldiers and Islam (1981) to correct the record. Yes, rebellions by enslaved soldiers occurred in several places – especially Egypt, Iraq and India – but not so in the Ottoman Empire. There in 1826, Sultan Mahmud II decided to disband his slave soldier corps, known as Janissaries, and establish a modern army. His turn on them, known as the “Auspicious Incident,” successfully disbanded the four-century-old Janissaries.
In other words, the ruler did the math and realized he didn’t need the slaves.
Sincerely
Daniel Pipes
Middle East Forum
Philadelphia
Israel Must Eradicate Hamas
Dear Editor:
The world must understand that Israel’s campaign in Gaza City is not an act of choice but an act of necessity. The horrific massacres of October 7th remain a searing reminder that Hamas is not a political party with which one negotiates but a ruthless terrorist organization committed to Israel’s destruction. Allowing Hamas to remain entrenched in Gaza would guarantee a repetition of such atrocities, placing every Israeli community within rocket range of another nightmare.
Israel’s current offensive must therefore be carried through to its decisive conclusion: the total dismantling of Hamas’ military and political infrastructure. Anything less would mean condemning Israel’s citizens to a perpetual cycle of bloodshed. The international community must also recognize that calls for “restraint” or “ceasefire” without addressing Hamas’ eradication are tantamount to asking Israelis to live under permanent siege.
History has shown that terrorism thrives when it is merely contained, but it collapses when confronted with unwavering resolve. Israel’s moral obligation—to its citizens, to the Jewish people, and to the very idea of civilized order—is to ensure that October 7th can never be repeated. Eradication of Hamas is the only path to that end.
Sincerely
Jason Goldschmidt
Toms River, NJ