Under attack

Re: Israel And Its Enemies, Charles Krauthammer; The Anti- Israel Virus At The UN, editorial, both, Oct. 29.

Charles Krauthammer has an amazing ability to foresee the ramifications of political dangers for Israel. I do not understand why so many folks, who support Israel, vote for governments that are more interested in pretending that the United Nations is capable of accomplishing much for the greater good. It is stuffed with politicians and bureaucrats who are only interested in living a good life in New York, attending expensive overseas conferences and pretending they can make a difference in the world. There are many small countries that have a vote and resent a successful, democratic state like Israel. I am embarrassed at our current prime minister pursuing the approval of this body. Anne Robinson, Toronto.

For years the Palestine Liberation Organization ( and now the Palestinian Authority), Hamas, Iranian leaders, etc., have spoken of “driving all the Jews of Israel into the sea” and now teach this in many Palestinian schools, camps and mosques, and even monetarily reward young Arab Muslims for stabbing or running down Israelis. The aim of the UNESCO fiasco, as your editorial pointed out, is “to delegitimize” Israelis’ presence” in their own land. When Jordan stole the West Bank, i ncluding Eastern Jerusalem, from the Palestinians in 1948, it ethnically cleansed the land of Jews, as Charles Krauthammer noted.

Now, as PA President Mahmoud Abbas says repeatedly if there was a twostate solution in his Arab Palestine, there would be absolutely no Jews, even though, of course, the Israeli Arabs would be expected to be allowed to stay in Israel — which is their preference anyway. When Israel gave back Gaza, all the Arabs did was use it to fire rockets and build tunnels to attack Israel. Bottom line: they appear to want it all and no one seems to really care. Michael Pascoe, Toronto.