Letters
How dare you?
Mark Lurinsky’s op-ed piece “Dear Prime Minister: Americans don’t want this” was really outrageous, hurtful, dangerous for the Jewish People and I believe crossed the line.
First of all, the arrogance. He speaks for all “Americans”? What nonsense.
Secondly, he is now in company with Bernie Sanders, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens and the like repeating the same canard that Bibi twisted Trump’s arm to attack Iran. The stereotype of the “conniving Jew”. These lies and misrepresentations especially by Jews give cover to our enemies and help fuel the attacks against Jews in USA and around the world. He quotes not once but twice the NY Times as his sources. That’s like quoting Der Sturmer to defend the Nazis. The NY Times is not what it once was. You know that and I know that. There is analysis upon analysis about its bias against Israel, the excessive amount of negative coverage, the focus on Israel over so many other world conflicts and issues.
For 47 years the radical Iranian regime threatened to destroy the one Jewish State/Homeland. And they acted on it setting up a ring of fire around Israel and supported numerous attacks over the years including October 7. This regime murdered Americans as well. Death to America and Death to Israel are its slogans and sick core values. After Hitler are we really still debating if we should act against those that say they will murder and annihilate us? They literally have a public clock in Teheran that has “countdown to the destruction of the State of Israel”. Mark can ignore this but the State of Israel and its leaders cannot.
I would like to end by quoting Gerard Baker who wrote in a recent column in the Wall Street Journal the following: “How will we ever repat the debt we owe Israel? What the Jewish State has done this past year — for its own defense, but in the process and not coincidentally for the security of all of us — will rank among the most important contributions to the defense of Western civilization in the past three-quarters of a century. Israel has in 12 months done nothing less than redraw the balance of global security, not just in the region, but in the wider world. It has eliminated thousands of the terrorists whose commitment to a savage theocratic ideology has claimed so many lives across the region and the world for decades. Above all, it has provided an unexpected but crucial reminder to our enemies that there are at least some willing and able to pursue and defeat them, whatever the risk to our own lives and resources.
The only appropriate responses to Israel’s gallantry, fortitude and skill from us — its nominal allies, especially in the U.S. — are thank you and how can we help.”
Lee Lasher
Englewood
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