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As inaccurate, as biased and as one-sided as Gershon Baskin’s weekly op-eds are, they do serve one important purpose: by printing them, The Jerusalem Post demonstrates – hands-on – the freedom of the press, the liberty and the democracy that is Israel.
In “The sun will come up tomorrow, maybe” (August 8), Baskin concludes that the Palestinian Authority’s repeated energy failures are entirely Israel’s fault. He is careful not to mention the hundreds of millions (billions?) of dollars and euros that sympathetic Western countries donate for Arab social welfare and infrastructure are diverted (read: stolen) by the West Bank and Gaza authorities and used instead to buy weapons, to build terror tunnels or to pad private bank accounts.
Israel’s battle against Islamic terror is the battle for the future of the USA – and for Europe’s future too. JONATHAN DANILOWITZ Moshav Shoresh
The two commentators, Gershon Baskin and Douglas Bloomfield, beautifully complement each other together filling almost a full page of The Jerusalem Post (“The sun will come up tomorrow, maybe” and “The peace scam,” August 8) respectively.
These two never have anything positive to say about Israel or negative about the Palestinians. Their mind-set can be summed up in a single phrase “Israel bad – Palestinians good.” Israel is the “evil occupier” to be blamed for all Palestinian woes. In their so-called quest for peace in Israel’s best interests (so they claim), no mention is ever made of the Palestinian demand of the to import millions of so-called Palestinian “refugees” into Israel (read the end of Israel), no mention is ever made of the terrorist state of Hamastan in Gaza, or the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. These two are the masters of terror tunnels intended to kill as many women and children as possible – true “freedom fighters.”
No mention is made of the existential Iranian threat to “wipe Israel off the map” as soon as possible. What do we have to do to get rid of these two from the pages of the Post to be replaced by opinion writers with at least a semblance of objectivity? YIGAL HOROWITZ
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