Readers want leaders

Alon Ben Meir may indeed be correct in asserting that Israel is in need of a visionary new leader (“Israel’s plight: An absence of leadership,” April 11). It would, however, be just as true to say that the Palestinians require one even more. Until the Palestinians acquire a leadership willing to prepare public opinion for peace, normalization with Israel, and the sort of flourishing economic future presaged by the Abraham Accords, any sort of external peace initiative will founder. A change at the top of the Palestinian body politic must be the first step. It requires the leader they will surely not elect – Mohammed Dahlan.

NEVILLE TELLER Ramat Beit Shemesh

“Cast your ballot for the killer” (April 9) conveys the bleak reality of the forthcoming Palestinian elections: a choice between main candidates who are irredeemably corrupt and/or have wrought murderous mayhem.

Surely in the 21st century the Palestinian people deserve and require better.

Unless someone brave enough rises to champion for their real needs and who sets an agenda to eliminate their perpetual “victim” and “refugee” posturing, the merry-go-round will continue.

The Abraham Accords should be the way forward with the assistance of funding and major initiatives from other cooperative and willing Arab entities to build a realistic future for the Palestinian people. A delusional doctrine based on and mired in a manufactured narrative is not a recipe for progress.

STEPHEN VISHNICK Tel Aviv