Moulton is the opposite of a profile in courage

Submitted to the Boston Globe November 11, 2025

To the editor:

Globe readers should be aware of facts that rarely if ever make it into the newspaper.

When Hamas started the Gaza war with its barbaric October 7 massacre, it was obvious that it was a war between good and evil. Two years later, Israel remains the force for good and Hamas and its supporters remain on the side of evil.

Despite Hamas turning virtually every home, school, hospital and mosque in Gaza into a terror base, using them both to attack Israelis and to use them and the civilians in them to protect its terrorist fighters, despite its admitted strategy of using civilians as human shields and trying to maximize its own civilian casualties, Israel managed to keep the civilian to combatant casualty ratio down to historically low levels, roughly a ninth of that recognized as the norm for urban warfare by the United Nations Security Council in 2022.

In the course of the war, as a tiny democracy fighting on nine different fronts, Israel managed to not only destroy most of Hamas' military capacity and give the people in Gaza a chance to create a normal society, it performed a similar service for the Lebanese by decimating Hezbollah, creating the condition for the overthrow of Bashir Assad in Syria, and tremendously damaging Iran's dangerous nuclear weapons program. Israel's actions greatly weakened the mullahs who have repressed Iranians since 1979, murdering young women for the crime of having a strand of hair escape from their hijabs.

In the course of defending itself against an avowedly genocidal terror group and its enablers, Israel has created the possibility of a far less dangerous and violent Middle East. It has done a tremendous service for America and the rest of the civilized world. We dare not squander that opportunity.

The fact that Seth Moulton is now refusing to accept campaign contributions connected to AIPAC, a middle-of-the-road, patriotic, American organization that is unashamedly on the side of America and Israel, shows how the radical, antisemitic and effectively anti-American left has effectively taken over the party to which I have belonged since first registering to vote more than a half century ago. One reason is the cowardice of Democratic leaders afraid to stand up for good against evil.

With his lack of a spine, Seth Moulton is now supporting evil against good, not only against Israel but against the nation he has sworn to serve.

Unfortunately, the same can be said of both our current senators.

For shame.

Sincerely,

Alan Stein

Newton, Massachusetts

The writer, founder of PRIMER-Massachusetts as well as PRIMER-Israel and President Emeritus of PRIMER-Connecticut, splits his time between Massachusetts and Israel.

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