Gaza goings on

The manner Caroline B. Glick portrays the top brass of the IDF (“Who leads Israel?” June 1), I don’t think many of us can sleep tightly. Having an undisputed powerful army headed by senior officers who were certainly not trained at Sandhurst or West Point should give us cause for concern.

Rejecting the Prime Minister’s directives and showering humanitarian aid upon our enemies in Gaza is a path to our total capitulation. We’ve done that and all it has netted is endless red alerts for our southern communities and their families.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should take another look at these military personages whose defensive strategy was formed in Chelm. You don’t send Acamol and cough syrup to killers waiting to annihilate you and your family.

We seek total victory as the road to peace. JULES EHRMAN Jerusalem

Regarding “Gazan tells ‘Post’ about latest round of violence” (June 1), maybe the gentleman needs to be told that most of the hardships in Gaza are due to Hamas stealing the hundreds of millions of dollars intended for the people, who are therefore unable to improve their lives. JUDY GOLDIN Kiryat Ono

Regarding “The Gaza Plan” (May 31), for the life of me I cannot understand why the State of Israel should have to pay off the criminals in Gaza and even build them a sea port in Cyprus. This really seems like paying what we used to call “protection.” We pay them off and they don’t attack us (again).

I wish that the powers that be would not encourage this type of breast-beating guilt trip. We are not responsible for their mess. They launched more than 100 rockets and mortar bombs at us, intending to murder as many of us as they could. Only by the grace of God and the Iron Dome they did not succeed. We, on the other hand, tiptoed around, careful not to cause a single casualty with all our bombing of empty places. THELMA JACOBSON Petah Tikva

Merton Rappaport (“Look Gaza in the eyes,” May 30) is clearly delusional. Why and how are we supposed to resolve Gaza’s distress?

The people of Gaza are responsible for their distress, having voted in Hamas and being complicit in their dream of “slitting our throats and tearing out our hearts.”

I think it’s time for the Arab leadership to say, “enough is enough.”

If they lay down their arms and cooperate with us they can have a better life. Are they not realistic enough to know that Israel is a fact and no “march of return” will make it otherwise?

I take offense at these “do-gooders” who keep putting the blame in the wrong quarter. We are not to blame for the distress in Gaza. Period. FREYA BINENFELD

Petah Tikva

There have been articles calling for a “new approach” to Gaza, but they recycle the same old one – give the Gazans more, even though it gets stolen by Hamas. They destroyed greenhouses that could have given Gaza a thriving economy; they will do the same to any other productive enterprise.

It is time for a new paradigm that actually will help the people of Gaza. The PA is useless and was defeated before by Hamas. Gaza needs to be helped to where they can have leaders willing to live in peace with Israel. Remove Hamas. Israel cannot do this without world condemnation, but Egypt, Arab countries, and the Trump administration could.

Bring in Egyptian or other troops who can be somewhat trusted and have them make sure any aid goes directly to the people who need it. The Hamas leadership should be given the choice of leaving or being tried for war crimes against their own people and against Israel, and any confiscated Hamas bank accounts can be used to help Gaza. STEVEN KOVNER

Shirley, MA.