Matters Of Fact

Sent to the Boston Globe January 29, 2025: Dear Editor: Reading the article "For Palestinians returning north, elation and despair" (Wednesday, January 29, 2025), I can't help but think of an important lesson it contains. When you choose a government made up of barbaric genocidal terrorist thugs and that government turns most of the homes, schools, hospitals, mosques and UNRWA facilities into armories, including tens of thousands of rockets, builds an extensive network of subterranean terror tunnels underneath civilian structures and with entrances into many of them, turns the civilians into human shields, repeatedly launches rockets and other terror attacks against a peaceful, democratic, sovereign neighbor and then launches a barbaric attack, beheading babies and burning them in ovens, gang raping innocent young women before murdering them and then bringing their dead, half-naked bodies back as hostages and parading them before cheering crowds, that sovereign neighbor t...

This letter was sent to the Hartford Courant on January 30, 2024 regarding the suspension by several donor of funding to the puppet of Hamas known as UNRWA. Making that suspension of funding permanent would be one of the best things that could have to the Palestinian Arabs. Letter to the editor: Good news for Gaza To the editor: News that UNRWA's funding may dry up ("Finding of agency in Gaza is at risk," January 30) is good news for the people living in Gaza. For three-quarters of a century, UNRWA has subjugated the descendants of the Arabs who left their homes during the war they and their brethren waged to destroy the modern miracle of the third Jewish Commonwealth in the Land of Israel. It has prevented them from building new lives the way many millions of other refugees of the period did, whether from Nazi concentration camps, India, Pakistan, China or numerous other places. If UNRWA's funding does dry up permanently, the next generation of children in Gaza, Jude...

This was sent to the Jerusalem Post on January 27 after the U(K)C(I)J irresponsibly failed to throw out the perverse case brought against Israel by South Africa, whose current government seems to be attempting to do the almost impossible and reach the level of immorality achieved by the former Apartheid government. Letter to the editor: Responding to the ICJ To the editor: The following two paragraphs should comprise Israel's complete response in a month to the demands of the ICJ: Although, as the court is undoubtedly aware, the charges against Israel filed by South Africa are baseless, beyond absurd and the court should have admitted that according to its own rules it did not have jurisdiction and, failing that, simply dismissed them out of hand, we will still provide the following report as unjustifiably demanded by the court. As you are undoubtedly similarly aware, throughout the conflict started by the barbaric terrorists from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah and suppose...

The Huffington Post is not known for treating Israel fairly. The February 1 article A Major U.N. Agency Is In Chaos. It’s Making Life Even Harder In Gaza  was no exception. So I sent the following letter to the Huffington Post at corrections@huffingtonpost.com, with a copy to the pro-terrorists, anti-Israel author Akbar Shahid Ahmed (akbar.ahmed@huffpost.com): Re the February 1, 2024 article "A Major U.N. Agency Is In Chaos. It’s Making Life Even Harder In Gaza" (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-un-unrwa-gaza-israel-aid_n_65bc2d3ee4b0a3aad5a464d7) by Akbar Shahid Ahmed: Besides being totally misguided, the article is infused with factual errors. In terms of being misguided: The article totally whitewashes the utter failure of UNRWA, which would have faded away seven decades ago if it hadn't already failed. It also whitewashes the way UNRWA, to greatly understate the situaion, is part of the problem. It's been no secret that UNRWA schools have been educating children ...