Askin’ Baskin

Regarding “Do the preposterous!” (July 18). Gershon Baskin’s claim to [being] “tired of playing games and worrying about ‘national honor’” seems somewhat artificial, given his decades-long presentation of our enemies’ claim to our 4,000-year ancestral homeland despite the existence of the many large Arab states with vast empty areas from where they originate, which certainly could make use of their many talents to improve the lives of all the inhabitants thereof.

Even if Baskin prefers to ignore all Torah, historical texts, facts on the ground and multi-language references to the enlightened civilization Jews created here, why would he deny that Jordan is now de facto Palestine?

It is getting more difficult to regard Baskin as an honest broker with every new column he writes.

ESTER ZEITLIN Jerusalem

What is preposterous is Baskin’s assertion that “Palestinian leaders really are interested in the welfare of their people.” If that were true, their corrupt leaders-for-life would not have massive illegal private bank accounts, funnel untold hundreds of millions of dollars of unaccountable aid into the production of terror tunnels and missiles, walk away from every offer for a peaceful resolution, educate, incite and reward their people to violence, make outrageous claims, rewrite history, refuse to compromise, etc.

We, too, dream of peace, but we are not fools.

HOWARD DORFMAN Hadera