A real peace without the PLO

Deerfield Beach, Fla: Mahmoud Abbas’ anti-Semitic rant has finally unmasked him. He is unfit for dealing with Israel in any capacity. It is time for him to retire to his $20 million home in Ramallah and for the Arab League to take control of the disputed territories. The Arab League was responsible for the 1948, 1967 and 1973 wars of genocide against Israel. Well, times have changed. Iran is the existential threat to both Israel and the Sunni states. It occupies Lebanon, via Hezbollah and parts of Syria with Russian backing.

Hamas, which turned Gaza from a potential economic success into a hell-hole, is also an Iranian client. Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood and is supported by CAIR and the Muslim Students’ Associations in our universities. All are rabidly racist and promote violence.

The United Nations, dominated by the 57 votes of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, is useless. While most of its members recognize and deal with Israel commercially, they vote against or abstain in UN committees. This charade can go on forever, but it will not solve the Palestinian problem.

The PLO was founded in 1964 to use terrorism as a political tool to drive infidels out of the Middle East and North Africa. The PLO and its offshoots, the PA and Hamas, have failed. The leadership enriched itself, a middle-class did emerge, but for most Palestinians, particularly those in refugee camps, life on welfare has been brutal.

The EU elites are making too much money dealing with Iran to care about the Palestinians or that their own cultures will soon be submerged under the Islamic invasion.

Only the Arab League, backed by the United States, can influence the creation of two states, one Palestinian and one Jewish, living in peace side-by-side. Len Bennett

It happened before

Saugerties, N.Y.: While I’ve imagined we might be entering a time of near-fascism in this country, I couldn’t honestly accept it. Now I can. Insert “black” or “Jew” in every phrase he uses “them” or “Mexicans, Hondurans” or “criminals” or “Democrats,” and you have a Hitlerian rant. There’s no other way to slice it. Sinclair Lewis wrote “It Can’t Happen Here” in 1935 in the midst of the rise of “America First” isolationism, fascism and racism. It is raising its sick head again. We must not let it happen.

Jack T. Patterson

Rudy and Donald

Carle Place, L.I.: Good to see President Trump adding the Honorable Rudy Giuliani to his legal team. In their spare time, they can compare notes on how they cheated on their wives.

Rudy Rosenberg II

Trump’s color-blindness

Brooklyn: Voicer Greg Cunningham fears that Liar-in-Chief Trump might pardon Bill Cosby, a fellow misogynist. Not to worry, Greg, Cosby’s not white.

Stan Rosenson

The other side of slavery

Rego Park: Re Steve Harvey’s comment to Kanye West: Steve has it wrong. History is being changed to please the populace. I remember learning about slavery in a different era. Slavery is wrong, no disputing that. In many cases they were rounded up by their own people and sold to slave traders. Also, in many cases they were treated well as slaves and many chose not to leave when slavery was abolished. Many highly respected Americans, past Presidents, were slave owners, and were not cruel. Things change, but political correctness influences how history is taught.

Bernice Chorzepa

Sick in the head

Brooklyn: Will someone please tell Kayne West and Camille Cosby to please resume their medication? They are both delusional.

Eileen McIntyre Hughes

Prize worthy

Oceanside, L.I.: To Stanley Tannen “City man: I merit Nobel, not Donald” (May 4): Your political affiliation tells a great deal about you. How can you say President Trump does not deserve the Nobel peace award? I am 83 years old and have never heard of your foundation or you anywhere. Why weren’t you objecting when President Obama was given the award when he was President for only a few months? You didn’t you feel you deserved more than him? He really didn’t do anything which even comes close to what Trump has begun. And now there is talk that three Americans detained in North Korea are to be released soon. What a great prospect! This President has done more for our country in 18 months than the do-nothing progressive Obama did in eight years. So who really deserves the Nobel Peace prize? I ask you! MAGA! John F. Rossano

Shut down the Parole Board

Staten Island: Charles Barron should shut up. The governor and mayor have a First Amendment right to criticize the Parole Board’s horrendous decision to parole Herman Bell, a three-time cop killer. This was an injustice to the dead officers and their families. The Parole Board is incompetent and insensitive to murder victims and their families. The Parole Board should be abolished.

Gary Acerra, NYS Courts, ret.

Goring Al

Bergenfield, N.J.: To Voicer Robert Romeo, who was making sport of Al Gore’s views on climate change: For your info, weather is one thing and climate is quite a different thing.

Al Schwarzler East Meadow, L.I.: To Voicer Robert Romeo: Your criticism of Al Gore, and your questioning of the massive amount of scientific evidence proving that human creation of greenhouse gas is causing climate change, just because of a few cold days in April, is juvenile and shows that you have poor critical thinking skills. If you were on the Titanic, would you say that the crew’s evidence that the ship was sinking is wrong because the part of the ship you are standing on is raised up in the air? Richard Skibins

Brain on drugs

Bronx: How much damage to a city can one mayor do? Now he wants to open heroin centers. Addicts and dealers both will flood these areas. What about the honest working people in these communities. How about a heroin center on 86th and Lexington or in his own Brooklyn neighborhood? Every time the poorer sections of this city move a step ahead some crooked politician with some greedy motive pulls them two steps back. This corrupt mayor thinks he will be the President. The rest of us will only pray the next mayor can restore some common sense and integrity for our city. Stephen Hill

Missing in action

Midland Park, N.J.: What’s the real deal with the “Soup to Nutz” comic strip? You continually say they are on vacation. If so, they are on the longest vacation ever. Please don’t get rid of them. I look forward to reading them every day and providing some muchneeded levity in this unbelievably insane Trump-run circus we live in. Mary Jo McDonough

How about a mention?

Brooklyn: I noticed when I read the Daily News on Thursday that UNESCO was celebrating World Press Freedom Day, and had a full-page ad urging readers to read other publications including The New York Times. Since I do read the Times, I was distressed to see that the almost identical ad in that paper did not urge readers to read the Daily News. Where is the reciprocity? Ira Cure

Two to go GOP blockers

AP Manahttan: I would like to thank you for the perfect seats where Rockin’ Rachel and I rocked out at “Rocktopia.” It was an awesome show. I knew being a newspaper boy for the Daily News would pay off someday!

Curtis Clarke Brooklyn: Re “Kid Vic law hearing bid” (May 3): Thanks to Sen. Simcha Felder, Republicans control the state Senate for another seven weeks. They can choose to do something good for the people of New York with that time or ride out the lame-duck period pandering to their base for reelection. I hope they choose to act out of duty rather than selfpreservation. Their legacies depend on it. GOP legislators, led by Sen. John Flanagan, are keeping bills from coming to the floor purely for political reasons. It is a craven way to dodge having to debate them in the open. After all, who wants to go on the record opposing justice for child abuse victims, voting reforms, decriminalization of abortion, access to contraception, protections for the LGBTQ community, ending cash bail and criminal justice reforms, and a state DREAM Act. New Yorkers deserve better.