Missing opportunities

I was appalled to read “ADL, Israel Policy Forum knock GOP for leaving ‘two states’ out of platform” (July 17).

It’s shameful, though I guess not surprising, that a significant percentage of American Jews excoriate Donald Trump for every nuance in every speech while ignoring Hillary Clinton’s support of virulently anti-Semitic comments and blood libels of Suha Arafat and the Palestinian leadership. However, to betray Israel by supporting the Oslo Accords, an initiative that even Yitzhak Rabin rejected (and which does not mention a “Palestinian state” even once), while the Arabs not only clearly reject the same notion, but incite their youth to respond to peaceful overtures by killing us, and even deny our connection to our land altogether, is utterly unforgivable.

After 23 years of the Oslo illusion, we finally have a major American political party beginning to acknowledge obvious truths, presenting a major opportunity to break free from the shackles to which the Left has bound us.

What’s it going to take for an American Jew to finally wake up? Will a Palestinian terrorist need to enter your home to murder your children, or will you be content for that to happen only to those of us here, as long as the violence comfortably abates before your holiday stay at the King David Hotel?

I’m not sure that Abba Eban got it entirely right, because the Arabs seem to capitalize pretty well on our own incessant refusal to defend what is rightfully ours. Perhaps it’s actually American Jews who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. NOAM COHEN Efrat