Skewed contribution

Regarding “Ambassador Greenfield to UNSC: ‘Only through diplomacy can we push deal forward’” (March 26), not many like to remember that in a previous deal, we released 1,027 prisoners – among them were 280 serving life sentences – for one hostage, Gilad Schalit.

Oh yes, and among those was a chap named Yahya Sinwar. Surely you haven’t forgotten him. That should definitely put to bed the fake fact that eventually we will be able to recapture them all or be able to eliminate them in some other way.

We know that we live in a very dangerous neighborhood, but our own skewed contribution to it doesn’t help.

STEPHEN VISHNICK Tel Aviv

The emasculated US abstention on the UN ceasefire resolution which enables Hamas to rearm, rebuild and recruit, as it has promised, to perpetuate October 7s until every Jew on earth is murdered demonstrates that the Biden administration would have called for a ceasefire on December 8, 1941.

The abstention makes clear that President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken devoutly wish to appease the evil that October 7 represents just as they would have appeased the evil that December 7, 1941 represents.

FDR and Harry Truman understood how evil is destroyed; not with chiffon-like ceasefires, but with bullets and bombs. There is not a scintilla of FDR and Harry Truman in any member of the Biden administration. Appeasing the architects of October 7 ala Neville Chamberlain, so that the Biden administration can curry favor with the Michigan supporters of October 7, is no different than appeasing the architects of Pearl Harbor.

RICHARD SHERMAN Margate, Florida