Off the Wall

Gaza, give it to PA” (June 22).

Former intelligence minister Eli Cohen said, “We will need to topple Hamas, which opposes Israel’s existence, so that Gaza will serve its two million Palestinians who have been taken captive.” Israel should then hand Gaza over to the PA, which “would be good for Israel.”

Is he serious? Handing Gaza over from one terrorist organization to another? To the PA that has always denied Israel’s legitimacy to any part of the land and regularly calls for our destruction?

Here’s a better idea. How about toppling Hamas and Fatah and returning the land to its rightful owners – the Jews, forcibly expelled. The only thing he said that makes sense is that allowing funds to Hamas from Qatari was wrong.

Unfortunately surrendering to our enemies was always the way of Netanyahu and no one spoke out forcibly.

We have paid and are paying a heavy price for those years of the sheep following a straw man. YENTEL JACOBS

Netanya

Regarding “Bar Lev promises to protect Women of the Wall” (June 21), it’s shocking to me that haredi men should even be aware of anything occurring in the women’s section at the Kotel. Not that it would be alright for haredi women to be attacking women just because those women are wearing tallitot and praying in a minyan.

It seems to me that the best solution will be to follow through on the 2016 deal that the haredim disavowed in 2017. The egalitarian prayer section should be updated, as was agreed more than five years ago, allowing Haredim to pray as they wish at one part of the Kotel and allowing those seeking to pray in egalitarian groups to do so in another section of the Kotel.

However, we need to be realistic. I recall that, back in 2016, some Women of the Wall said they did not want to be shunted off to some remote location. Should some women continue trying to conduct group prayer where they have been trying to pray for years, or if haredim should try to disrupt prayers by egalitarian groups in the designated site, police should be prepared to step in.

Destroying siddurim containing HaShem’s name and/or physically assaulting someone because you don’t approve of his or her prayer style is a major hillul

and should not be tolerated anywhere in Israel (especially at the holiest site where Jews are currently allowed to pray).

TOBY F. BLOCK

Atlanta, GA