Oslo Accord lessons

Regarding “Israel should unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank” (October 22), Charles Freilich, a former security adviser, proposes the expulsion of hundreds of thousands residents of the West Bank because “maybe Palestinians will then come to the table,” even though he’s not banking on it.

What kind of reason is “maybe?”

As a strategic adviser, has he not learned anything from the failed Oslo Accords or the expulsion of the residents of Gush Katif. Without the Jewish communities of the West Bank, the rest of the country will be no different than those in the South of Israel on the Gaza border. That would be the fate of Israeli communities everywhere.

We all want a peaceful solution, but what Charles Freilich is advocating is a death sentence far greater than anything we have ever experienced before.

JUDY LEV Ra’anana

What part of Hamas’s and the PA’s statements refusing to accept that we have rights anywhere in this land, does Chuck Freilich not understand? If he called it by its correct name, Judea and Samaria, he might have a better understanding of our just rights to all of this land.

The PA calls it “high treason” for an Arab to sell land to an Israeli. After Israel arrested two senior PA officials for illegal activity, the PA said, “It’s a crime against the Palestinian leadership and our eternal capital, the occupied Arab city of Jerusalem.” Pretty clear language there about whose land they think it is.

Freilich talks of us never having been more secure and therefore able to show restraint. How secure is a people who cannot walk throughout their land without fear of attack; who see signs barring them from entering parts of their land; who have to rush to a shelter with seconds; who have to worry about being stabbed, lynched or shot in a restaurant or shopping center?

The ability of Hamas and Hezbollah to reach all parts of our Land is because of the restraint Israel has shown. We refuse to destroy Hamas and make idle threats that are never carried out. When Hamas and Abbas threaten, they mean it and show contempt for what they consider the “Zionist entity occupation of Arab land.”

Hamas harms Israel with ongoing attacks on our people and the burning of our land. In a sovereign state, one does not show restraint but restrains the enemy by destroying it. Our land must never ever be considered negotiable; surrender should not be in our vocabulary. YENTEL JACOBS

Netanya