Useless blather

Is there any hope that someone can tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop with the useless blather (“Netanyahu: Israel expects Abbas to condemn, not justify, deadly attack,” September 27) while Hamas praises the Har Adar shooter of Israelis and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said “I salute our martyrs” recently at the UN?

Abbas knows he is onto a good thing, with Netanyahu being afraid to allow him and his terrorist organization to collapse, which it has been on the verge of doing many times. He knows the desperation of Netanyahu not to declare sovereignty throughout the Jewish land, and sees the humiliation he is prepared to accept on the Temple Mount.

As for “Shin Bet: Attacker had family problems, was left by his wife,” which appeared in the same edition, are we supposed to feel sympathy for this monster who killed three people? It would seem so with the sympathetic write up.

We even have Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan telling us that Nimr al-Jamal “did not have a ‘past’ of security-related offenses.” So what? Does that make it any better for the families of the dead men and for the others who will follow when the next Nimr al-Jamal becomes unhappy?

When will it be enough before people come to their senses and see how dangerous the policy of concessions and surrender is? PHYLLIS STERN

Netanya