Wave of violence

With regard to “Security cabinet holds marathon session” ( October 14), Jewish deaths once again have no effect other than to add another emergency meeting to the prime minister’s schedule. Benjamin Netanyahu has talked and talked, but has largely done nothing to improve our security.

Terrorists relish sacrificing their own pathetic lives for their cause but by and large are unwilling to sacrifice those of their extended families. How’s this for an idea – every act of terrorism is met with the immediate expulsion of the terrorist’s extended family to the Gaza Strip. No belongings.

Deportation to Gaza is worse than death for these miscreants. This would end the spate of attacks immediately. Guaranteed.

NOAM COHEN Efrat

Allow me to suggest three points that would almost guarantee an end to the violence.

1. Our government must declare to our Arab neighbors, world allies and the UN that we will view any act of terrorism as an act of war.

2. We must revoke the citizenship of terrorists and their families, including parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. We must cease to supply them with utilities and all health and social benefits. If necessary, we must destroy their homes.

3. We must all look at our own behavior and conduct a heshbon nefesh (evaluation) of what we need to correct in our lives – including not to place blame on others, only on ourselves. God is calling us to do tshuva (repentance) by helping one another be kinder and more charitable.

AHARON ZIEGLER Jerusalem

The writer is a rabbi.

It seems that everything being considered to stop the wave of terrorism is defensive.

We are at war. In war, the best defense is a strong offense. Demolishing the homes of killers does not seem to work. What will deter further terrorism is withholding the bodies of dead terrorists and burying them in unmarked graves. We and the rest of the world should not have to witness a hero’s funeral for these killers.

Second, the millions of dollars the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists in our prisons should be deducted from the tax money we forward to it each month. Give the money instead to the victims of terror.

Last but not least, instead of having to defend ourselves against the lies of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and others, it is high time we let the world know the true situation here. If we tell the facts often and loud enough, we might convince some, just as the liars do over and over again.

KURT SIMON Jerusalem

It cannot be that every so often, an Arab uprising wreaks havoc, takes lives and instills fear and panic – and then, when it runs its course, everything returns to normal.

Like every luxury, you can’t have it if you can’t afford it, and the Arab “hunger games” are nothing more than their luxury.

Our government, if it is to deter them, has to set a price for their vicious behavior that is painful and costly. Otherwise, we will see this episode return again and again.

DAVID S. ADDLEMAN Mevaseret Zion