Paris conference

With regard to “World ministers in Paris endorse two-state solution” (January 16), the Paris Middle East Conference exemplifies either the irrational thinking of the world or its out and out antisemitic outlook. It was an extension of the one-sided view of the United Nations, and of Barack Obama since his first speech in Cairo as US president.

To date, no one has been able to answer the following questions:

• Have the Palestinians done anything to give Israel confidence that they want to live in peace?

• With all the monies the Palestinians have received, what concrete steps have they taken to develop the foundation for a state?

• If the Palestinians want to live in peace, why is the curriculum in their schools geared to teaching hatred and violence against Israel?

• If the Palestinians believe in a two-state solution, why doesn’t Israel appear on their maps?

The best thing that can happen when President-elect Donald Trump comes into office and the US embassy is moved to Jerusalem is the realization that the Palestinians will no longer have a free ride and there will be a cost for their support of terrorism and lack of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. VEL WERBLOWSKY Jerusalem

Who in the government decided that Israel should not attend the Paris conference? Was no one in the government alive when the world powers met in Munich to carve up Czechoslovakia? The same thing will happen again.

The disputed territories make the great powers uncomfortable, and in order to reach a comfort level, everything will be given away. Israelis should be present and screaming, with their fists in the air. TED RESNICK Ra’anana

It is ironic that at the same time as the Paris summit, Jean Patrick Grumberg of the French blog Dreuz documented a French court case from the 1990s that the world media generally ignored: The Palestinian Authority brought suit against French companies building the light rail system in Jerusalem, a case it lost in a 2007 decision that in effect ruled that Israel was the legal occupier of Judea and Samaria.

In 2013, the Versailles Court of Appeals, in refusing to rehear the case, effectively ruled that West Bank settlements and the occupation of Judea and Samaria by Israel were unequivocally legal under international law.

This was the first time since the State of Israel came into being that an independent, non-Israeli court was called upon to examine the status of West Bank territories under international law. LYNETTE ORDMAN

Netanya