Leave us Alon

I really don’t understand Alon Ben-Meir, who thinks that we should create a state that never existed before (“The creation of a Palestinian state is inescapable,” June 27).

Palestine is what the British called Israel, and many Jews who were here at that time held a “Palestinian” passport.

What a lot of nonsense about giving us a state because of the Holocaust. Check your facts. The League of Nations talked about a Jewish state before the Holocaust. And what about the San Reno conference, Balfour Declaration, etc.

You want to give a state to people who have no rights in this country, whose great-grandfathers came here to find work here, stayed and brought family from whatever country they came from.

Our roots are here from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I think it was David Ben-Gurion who held up a Bible into the UN and said this is our deed to the State of Israel.

JUDY FORD Petah Tikva

It is easy for Alon Ben-Meir to pontificate from his comfortable office at New York University. I can do the same for him from Netanya saying that he should give up his property for the benefit of Muslim Brotherhood and create a “two state solution” in Manhattan, leaving yourself vulnerable to attack from all sides.

Does he not know that the PA and Hamas will not settle for anything less than the Palestinian state over the whole of the present land of Israel “from the river to the sea”? Where is the willingness to “compromise” in that? I think that is why he does not talk about borders.

Please set the example, Alon, and return to the country of your birth and that of your ancestors, and then, we might take you seriously.

KAREN PISK

Netanya

What is it that Ben Meir doesn’t understand about Arab aspirations?

They have refused compromise over and over again. They don’t want a state; they want the destruction of ours.

Why didn’t Jordan, which controlled the “West Bank” between 1948 and 1967, ever consider giving the “Palestinians” a state?

Why,when Israel in 1967 wanted to make peace were confronted with “No peace, no negotiation, no recognition?

Their mantra “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free”” does not bode well for Israel.

Thanks but no thanks. History has taught us that it is not the best strategy to capitulate and become a razor-thin state where we will continue to be constantly reviled, rejected and threatened by our enemies.

FREYA BINENFELD

Petah Tikva