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Beware of the Associated Press

Sent to the Connecticut Post, December 16, 2024: Dear Editor: I urge the Connecticut Post to thoroughly review AP articles about the war Hamas started last October 7 with its barbaric massacre before publishing them. There is troubling bias in these articles, particularly evident in “Middle East latest: UN General Assembly demands a ceasefire in Gaza” (Dec 12). For starters, it’s insufficient to call Hamas “militants”. They are a globally recognized terrorist organization that committed the worst atrocities against Jews since World War II. It bears remembering that on October 7, they killed, tortured, and kidnapped people from several dozen countries including the US. Additionally, they are part of the Iran-backed network responsible for recent terror attacks in Europe and Scandanavia and foiled attacks in other western democracies. They have earned the designation ‘terrorist’ and failing to say that is journalistic malpractice. In addition, the AP refers repeatedly to “Israeli airstri...
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The fall of Assad

Sent to the Boston Globe December 9,, 2024: Dear Editor: There's an unappreciated factor as the free world celebrates the fall of Bashir Assad, that brutal dictator with the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands: the decimation by Israel of Iran's most prominent terror proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, along with Israel's brilliant destruction of the Islamic Republic's air defenses. This was all done in the face of strong resistance from experts in charge of our American foreign policy. We can be sure the international community will never acknowledge the debt owed to Israel, but our government should start taking to heart the way, time and again, Israeli actions taken despite American opposition have proven to be good not just for Israel but for America; equally important, time and again Israeli inaction in deference to American pressure has proven to be a tragic mistake. It's time to recognize that Israel understands the Middle East, the region in which it exist...
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Inaccurate Headline

Sent to the MetroWest Daily News November 28, 2024: Dear Editor: The headline of the article "Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire truce holds" (MWDN, November 28) is inaccurate. Hezbollah violated the truce within minutes of its supposedly taking effect and, as I am writing this now, continues to repeatedly violate it. Sincerely, Alan Stein
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Israel has gone out of its way to comply with international law

Published by the MetroWest Daily News December 1, 2024: To the Editor: The article 'Group says Israel committed war crimes' (MetroWest Daily News, Nov. 15) omits the fact that 'the group' is fanatically hostile to Israel and its founder long ago blasted Human Rights Watch for betraying its principles and its mission. The fact is that, despite the nature of the terrorist enemies against which Israel is currently fighting an existential war on seven fronts, the country has arguably gone beyond what any other state has in its compliance with international law. I do not know of any other country that has transferred massive amounts of humanitarian assistance to its enemy during a war that said enemy started. Israel has continued to do that, even though Hamas has stolen most of the aid and many Israelis have paid with their lives. Israel has also done something no other army has ever done: Tell its enemy where it's going to attack, thus enabling civilians to get out of h...
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Beware of irrational exuberance

Sent to the Boston Globe November 28, 2024: Dear Editor: Any exuberance over the ceasefire deal arranged between the Hezbollah terrorists and Israel would be irrational. Hezbollah violated the ceasefire within minutes of its taking effect and has continued to violate it many times in just the first day. One certainly cannot expect the Lebanese army, which is effectively controlled by Hezbollah, to enforce the ceasefire conditions; the same goes for UNIFIL, which has been an abject failure since it was supposedly strengthened 18 years ago and has done nothing as, time after time, Hezbollah attacked Israel from positions within a football field's length of UNIFIL forces. Nor can we expect either to destroy the Hezbollah's tunnels and rockets in southern Lebanon which have not yet been destroyed by Israel, not to mention enforce compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which mandates the disarming of all militias in Lebanon. Until that is done and the power Iran has ov...
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UNRWA no longer legitimate

Published by the New London Day December 2, 2024: It has now been revealed by U.N. Watch that back in 2017, UNRWA's then-leader Pierre Krahenbuhl met in Beirut with leaders of numerous terror groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah al-Initifada and emphasized the "spirit of partnership" between UNRWA and those terror groups dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Krahenbuhl met repeatedly with the leaders of those terror groups, as has Philippe Lazzarini, the current head of UNRWA. No longer can anyone reasonably pretend UNRWA is anything other than deliberately complicit with those genocidal terror groups. No longer can anyone reasonably argue that UNRWA should continue to be funded and not disbanded. Alan Stein Natick, Mass. Editor's note: The writer, formerly a longtime resident of Connecticut, is founder of PRIMER-Connecticut (Promoting Respons...
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Bernie surprises - he has a sense of humor

Sent to the Washington Post November 19, 2024: Dear Editor: I never thought Bernie Sanders had a sense of humor, but he proved me wrong when, in his misguided op-ed "No more arms sales to Netanyahu," he tried to bolster his false claim that Israel "violates internationally recognized human rights" by citing baseless claims made by the systemically antisemitic, perversely anti-Israel United Nations. Incidentally, the United States isn't selling arms to Netanyahu; it is selling arms to Israel, our democratic ally engaged in an existential struggle on seven fronts against terror proxies of Iran, which itself attacked Israel with the most massive barrage of missiles and drones in history. Israel is also the front line state in the West's war for good versus unadulterated evil. Bernie's attempt to deny Israel the means to defend both itself and the free world against that evil puts him on the side of America's enemies and gives new meaning to the expressi...
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