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Qatar is the Epicenter of Islamic Expansion
Dear Editor:
Immediately after the attack on Oct. 7, 2023, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres accused Israel of bearing responsibility. “It did not happen in a vacuum,” he said.
He is right about it not happening in a vacuum, but like Canada, the UK, France and Australia, he is totally ignorant of the history of the region and is spouting Jew-hatred.
Radical Islam has been waging a 100-year war against the world, but we have not acknowledged it.
For 400 years, the Middle East was part of the Ottoman Empire. Infidels were Dhimmi, to be humiliated and belittled. Turkey aligned with Germany in World War One. When it lost the war, it lost their empire.
Southern Syria was divided into Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Their borders were drawn at San Remo in 1920. San Remo represented the victors of World War One. They implemented mandates to handle the remnants of the empire, until these states could be self-sufficient. Palestine was the reconstituted Jewish homeland. Almost immediately, without consulting their partners, Britain cut off 78% of Palestine, that east of the Jordan river, and gave it to the Saudi Hashemites.
In 1922, the League of Nations unanimously set the San Remo accords into law.
The leader of the Palestinian mandate’s Arabs was Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He instigated pogroms against Mideast Jews from the 1920 to 1942, formed the Bosnian Muslim Waffen-SS troops in WWII and intervened to send 4,000 Hungarian children to the gas chambers. He was captured by the French, who let him escape.
In 1945, the United Nations was founded. Article 80 of its charter stated what was promised the Jews cannot be altered. This solidified Israel’s borders as including Gaza, Judea and Samaria.
In 1947, the Arabs rejected a UN suggestion that the mandate be partitioned between Jews and Arabs, and launched the Nakba to ‘drive the Jews into the sea.’
In Egypt, 1928, Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement, sworn to spread the Caliphate across the world.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union saw Israel as an American outpost in the Middle East and set out to undermine both nations through terrorism and disinformation that drew on-old antisemitic tropes. They formed the PLO in 1964, collecting fighters from throughout MENA and calling them ‘Palestinians’. No Arab had been called a Palestinian prior to then. Though everyone in the mandate carried the same passports, only Jews were referred to as Palestinians.
In 1995, Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo Accords, allowing Yasser Arafat and 100,000 followers to enter Israel. Arafat had made it clear the accords were like Mohammed’s pact with the Quraysh Jews, when Mohammed went back on his agreement, beheading the men and enslaving the women.
Nobody took Arafat seriously then and we still minimize radical Islam’s aggressive intentions.
Today, Qatar is the epicenter of Islamic expansion. The Oct.7, 2023 attack on southern Israel could not have been carried out without Iran and Qatar’s financing, equipping and planning.
One day after the Oct. 7 attacks, more than 40,000 dormant social media accounts suddenly began posting pro-Hamas messages.
No-one can expect Israel to accept a ceasefire that keeps Hamas in power. Hamas’s war against Israel will end when Hamas surrenders.
Israel is the canary in the canary in the coal mine. It fights for our freedom.
Sincerely,
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Deerfield Beach, FL
Genocide Rages; World Yawns
Dear Editor:
After a week of reporting on the renewed Darfur genocide without naming the perpetrators or the victims, the New York Times finally, on Oct. 31, acknowledged that the killers, known as the Rapid Support Forces, are “predominantly Arab militias.” The Times did not explicitly state that the victims are non-Arabs—even though that’s the reason they’re being slaughtered—but perhaps it will do so one of these days.
Now that the Times has identified the Arab militias as the killers—belatedly following the outgoing Biden administration, which did so ten months ago—the question is: What is going to be done about it?
Will the Times’ foreign affairs columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, demand international intervention?
Will outraged humanitarians picket the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, which is financing the Arab militias’ slaughter of non-Arabs?
Will the United Nations Security Council meet in emergency session?
Will Greta Thunberg lead a mission to bring aid to the Arabs’ victims?
Will all those who have been falsely accusing Israel of “genocide” speak out, now that there is a real genocide underway?
Or does the fact that the perpetrators are Arabs somehow disqualify Darfur from being taken seriously?
Sincerely
Prof. Rafael Medoff
Alarmed by Mamdani’s Ascent to Power
Dear Editor:
As a lifelong New Yorker who cherishes this city’s resilience, diversity, and dynamism, I am deeply alarmed by the prospect of Zohran Mamdani becoming our next mayor. His radical socialist dogma, hostility toward Israel, and lack of meaningful administrative experience make him profoundly unfit to lead a city as complex and globally significant as New York.
Mamdani’s brand of politics is not merely progressive—it is ideologically extreme and divisive. His record as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America reveals a deep disdain for capitalism, private enterprise, and the very freedoms that make New York thrive. Under his vision, high taxes, reckless spending, and anti-business rhetoric would drive away investment, jobs, and the middle class.
Even more troubling is Mamdani’s virulent anti-Israel stance, which many see as crossing the line into outright antisemitism. His embrace of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and his incendiary rhetoric—such as his past remarks endorsing the slogan “globalize the intifada”—undermine Jewish New Yorkers and endanger the spirit of inclusion that should define this city. New York, with its vibrant Jewish community, deserves a leader who unites people, not one who targets or alienates them.
Equally concerning is Mamdani’s absence of executive experience. Managing a city of over eight million residents demands pragmatic leadership, not activist posturing. His record in Albany offers no evidence that he possesses the discipline or competence required to handle New York’s sprawling bureaucracy, public safety challenges, or fiscal pressures.
As President Donald Trump recently reminded New Yorkers, the path forward lies in supporting a capable leader like Andrew Cuomo, who has proven experience and the temperament to steady this city through turbulent times.
New York cannot afford an experiment in ideological extremism. It needs leadership grounded in reality, not revolution.
Sincerely,
Esther Goldschmidt
Forest Hills, NY