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Israel’s Legal Basis
Dear Editor:
No nation has a more solid legal basis than Israel.
The British Mandate for Palestine was defined at San Remo in 1920 as one of several mandates carved out of the Ottoman Empire after WWII. In 1921, Churchill cut off 78%, all the land east of the Jordan River, and gave it to the Hashemites, from Saudi Arabia, to create Transjordan.
The British Mandate for Palestine became 2 states, one Jewish and one Arab.
It was unanimously confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922 and sealed by article 80 of the U.N. charter. This means U.N. members accept that Israel includes all of the Jewish part of the mandate. Simply stated, Judea, Samaria and Gaza are Israeli territory.
During the Mandate, Jews were called Palestinians. Arabs identified with their families, clans or tribes or from where they had emigrated.
Today, Israel includes 20% non-Jews, who enjoy full civil rights. The Arab world, which expelled 800,000 Jews, penniless, after 1948 has few Jews left.
Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Deerfield Beach, Fl
Mamdani’s Enemies on Wall Street?
Dear Editor:
The Democrats of New York City elected Zohran Mamdani, an openly antisemitic Islamist and socialist to be their mayor. This does not bode well for the city that was attacked on 9-11, nor for the rest of us.
He was endorsed by Barak Obama, the president who welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood into his administration.
The west has been under assault since 1928, when Hassan al-Banna formed the Brotherhood in Egypt. Its aim is to replace Infidel societies with a Caliphate. Its headquarters are in Qatar, whose royal family is closely associated with the Mamdani family.
Israel, the ‘Small Satan’, blocks the way to the ‘Great Satan’, America.
Gazans swarmed and ravished southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. 40,000 dormant web-sites sprung into action. Propaganda, flags, placards and tents appeared on campuses the day after.
The organizations behind these radicals are intact. There are sleeper-cells everywhere, awaiting instructions. Mamdani’s election will embolden those planning our demise.
Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
It’s Not All in Their Heads
Dear Editor:
Cornell University has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice concerning anti-Israel protests on its campus which—as the New York Times put it— “made Jewish students on campus fearful.”
In reality, the problem was not just Jewish fears, but numerous statements and actions, some of them violent, that targeted Jewish students at Cornell following the Hamas invasion of Israel two years ago.
— A student threatened to shoot and stab Jewish students in Cornell’s kosher dining hall.
— The campus Hillel received death threats and other vulgar messages.
— Anti-Israel extremists smashed glass doors at Day Hall and defaced it with menacing graffiti.
— A mob rioted at a campus career fair because a few of the exhibitors had connections to Israel.
— Several Cornell professors openly cheered the October 7 mass-murder, mocked and denied the Hamas gang-rapes of Israeli women, and posted obscene messages about Israel and Zionism.
It was not all just in the Jewish students’ heads. The atmosphere was so hostile to Jewish students that at one point in the autumn of 2023, the university administration felt it necessary to temporarily cancel all classes.
Unfortunately, this is becoming something of a pattern at the New York Times. A news article on October 23 about anti-Israel activity on campuses reported that some American Jewish college students have complained “that some chants and other acts felt antisemitic.”
The assertion that Jewish students merely “felt” the chants or signs were antisemitic implied that they might not have been antisemitic, but were simply perceived that way by some observers.
It’s not a matter of what Jewish students have “felt,” but what has actually been happening for the past two years on university campuses around the country:
— Physical assaults, harassment and taunting of Jewish students, including slurs such as “kike Zionists” (at Ohio State University) and “Go back to Poland!” (at Columbia University).
— Swastika-daubings on the facilities of campus Jewish organizations such as Hillel.
— Preventing Jewish students from accessing some public areas on campuses.
— Mobs marching with banners celebrating the Hamas massacre of 1200 Israeli Jews and calling for the annihilation of millions more. Let’s not forget that President Joe Biden, in a tweet on June 8, 2024, specifically cited rallies “celebrating the 10/7 attack” as examples of recent “horrific acts of Antisemitism.”
Sincerely,
Prof. Rafael Medoff