Matters Of Fact

Sent to the Boston Globe March 28, 2026 Dear Editor: Substantial and virtually inexplicable omissions in the article "Hezbollah vows to keep its weapons after Israeli strikes" create a highly distorted picture. They begin with the very headline, which omits the facts that Hezbollah has repeatedly insisted it will never disarm and the Israeli strikes were in response to continual Hezbollah attacks in violation of the so-called ceasefire. Also omitted is the fact that Hezbollah having any weapons violates Lebanese sovereignty, previous ceasefire agreements and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, passed two decades ago. The article mentions a statistic about the number of people allegedly killed in Lebanon but fails to mention reliable evidence indicates almost all those killed were terrorist, with very few civilian casualties. As usual, the article also fails to mention that Hezbollah is a genocidal terrorist organization. Sincerely, Alan Stein

  Sent to the Boston Globe December 14, 2025 To the editor: Reading the article "Can Gaza plans get off drawing board?" (Sunday, December 14), I couldn't help notice the fatal contradiction between the fact that Hamas, the leader of the barbaric October 7 slaughter and architect of the strategy which ensured the destruction of most of Gaza, have made clear it will never voluntarily disarm and the unwillingness of outside forces to confront and disarm Hamas. Obviously, without the disarmament of Hamas, including the destruction of its terror infrastructure, including its still extensive complex of terror tunnels and its weapons and rocket arsenal, the well-meaning Trump plan will merely amount to a break before the next wave of Hamas terror attacks and the next Gaza war, with any reconstruction of Gaza again destroyed. And the self-imposed misery of the Palestinian Arabs, most of whom still support Hamas and its genocidal agenda, will continue. Sincerely, Alan Stein

Sent to the Boston Herald November 24, 2025 To the editor: Re the Associated Press article "Israel launches strikes in ceasefire's latest test" (Boston Herald, November 23): Israel's strikes were indeed another test of the ceasefire with Hamas, but not quite in the way misleadingly implied by the Associated Press. Hamas has been constantly violating the terms of the ceasefire, with its failure, more than six weeks after the start of the ceasefire, to return all the hostages it kidnapped October 7, 2023 despite the agreement that it would do so within 72 hours, being one of its smallest, albeit more dramatic, violations. The only party making Hamas pay any price for its constant violations is Israel, whose enforcement of the terms provides the only hope that that ceasefire will endure and lead to the disarmament of the Hamas and destruction of its terror infrastructure. Unless those provisions are enforced, this ceasefire will simply repeat the failures of all previous...