Mathematics of UN delusion

Regarding “The UN’s delusion” (December 3), why bother with those people? Nothing will make them change; they come from pure hatred of the Jewish people. The editorial notes that the UN twists the truth about the Temple Mount, excluding the millennia-old Jewish connection to Jerusalem, but it is not a big leap to observing how little importance we place on our Temple Mount and other holy sites. We allow the Muslims unfettered access to the Mount, where they are free to dig, destroy and make fools of us.

The prime minister chooses to keep the status quo there, which makes no sense. No matter how much he bends to our foe’s will, it will never be enough, even though he has all but accepted dhimmitude. This alone should have brought about his dismissal had we any pride or shame. Because Islam was not around until 2,200 years after Judaism, it has no claim to any of our land or holy sites. To allow them any claim is to bring us to the present situation where they are the master and we the underling, so it is not difficult to see why haters jump on any excuse to exclude us from what is now regarded as Arab property and Israel as occupiers – and we did it all by ourselves!

Who needs enemies when we are so determined to self-destruct? PHYLLIS STERN

Netanya

In your editorial, you write: “That [resolution] and another, which was approved 156-8, spoke of al-Haram al-Sharif without mentioning that Jews and Christians call it the Temple Mount and that it is Judaism’s holiest site.” When it comes to the UN, its declarations are in inverse proportion to the truth – i.e. y = 1/x.

As Daniel Pipes mentioned in his “The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem” article, “‘Jerusalem’ appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and ‘Zion’ (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times in all. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion seven times.

In contrast, notes columnist Moshe Kohn, ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘Zion’ appear as frequently in the Koran “as they do in the Hindu Bhagavad-Gita, the Taoist Tao-Te Ching, the Buddhist Dhamapada and the Zoroastrian Zend Avesta.” Which is to say, not even once.

I would not be surprised if 156 UN members voted for a resolution that 2+2=5 if it could in some way delegitimize Israel. MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC

Beersheba

We do not have to quote Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as great a friend of the State of Israel as he was, to defend our right to the Land of Israel, and especially Jerusalem.

As the great commentator Rashi quotes Rabbi Yitzchok on the very first verse of the Torah: “...should the nations of the world say to Israel, ‘You are robbers, for you have taken by force the lands of the Seven Nations, they [Israel] will say to them: ‘All the earth belongs to G-d. He created it and gave it to whomever He saw fit. It was His will to give it to them and it was His will to take it from them and give it to us.’”

That is enough proof for the Jewish people to deny the UN’s continuous delusions. AVRAHAM FRIEDMAN Ganei Modi’in