To the editor: There aren’t any phrases to precise the disgust I felt as I labored via Rabbi Aryeh Cohen’s op-ed article, “I’m a rabbi and a former IDF soldier. This Yom Kippur I’m atoning personally within the occupation.”
As we collect to hunt atonement for our sins, I’m stricken by the existential risk to not solely the very existence of the Jewish state of Israel, however for each Jew worldwide. I do know that my European household of 6 million wouldn’t have been slaughtered had there been an Israel — and my life is enriched, dare I say doable, by the very existence of Israel.
We aren’t an ideal nation, there’s none on this world, however we do try to conduct ourselves in a godly method. I’d moderately see this rabbi improve that endeavor moderately than complement Jew hatred.
Alyse Golden Berkley, Encino
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To the editor: Israel is a killing machine. It has violated dozens of United Nations resolutions. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s major response in rebuttal is to make accusations of antisemitism.
Why are so many elected officers afraid to have a look at the details? The overwhelming majority of the greater than 40,000 folks killed within the Gaza Strip has been civilians. Israeli forces have additionally destroyed nearly all of infrastructure in Gaza.
How a lot is sufficient revenge for the assault on Oct. 7, 2023? Israel have to be stopped now. Please assist cease killing folks.
Craig Brod, Santa Monica
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To the editor: I agree with Fox Information reporter Trey Yingst that the Israelis are ready the place they’ll wage conflict aimed on the destruction of their enemies, or they’ll have a deal and get again the remaining hostages. I additionally agree that Palestinian struggling is tragic. (“After a 12 months of reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict, right here’s what I do know,” Opinion, Oct. 7)
However I problem his conclusion that the Israelis ought to abandon their struggle. I imagine he, and many people within the safe West, have forgotten the fact of a seemingly unimaginable conflict.
Unimaginable wars have to be waged to safe peace. Winston Churchill’s phrases function a reminder that when dealing with an incredible terror, the reply is “victory in any respect prices, victory despite all terror, victory, nevertheless lengthy and arduous the highway could also be; for with out victory, there is no such thing as a survival.”
Gideon Askowitz, White Plains, N.Y.
