Readers sound off on killing Gaza’s journalists, Trump appointments and Jets ownership

Risking decease to study what the satellite ignores

Los Altos, Calif.: Kavitha Chekuru, a writer and documentary producer, brings to airy successful a New York Times op-ed the caller alarming threats faced by Palestinian journalists amid Israel’s subject actions successful Gaza. Journalist Hossam Shabat, reporting from bluish Gaza, described his harrowing beingness connected the frontlines, wherever conscionable days prior, helium and 5 different Al Jazeera journalists were baselessly accused by Israeli forces of being affiliated with militant groups. These claims, which Al Jazeera has denounced, spot these journalists successful sedate danger, adjacent arsenic they supply indispensable sum of alleged crimes against humanity successful Gaza, arsenic described by the UN.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), this twelvemonth has seen a grounds 129 Palestinian journalists killed successful Gaza, similar Sari Mansour (photo), a toll that Gaza’s media bureau estimates astatine 190. Five were straight targeted, with Israel accused of ongoing attacks connected property freedom. The U.S. has remained mostly silent, neglecting tools similar the Leahy Law that could assistance analyse these deaths. This soundlessness emboldens Israeli impunity and compromises the planetary community’s quality to recognize the world successful Gaza.

The onslaught connected journalists recalls the lawsuit of Shireen Abu Akleh, a U.S. national and writer killed successful 2022, wherever accountability remains elusive contempt wide calls for justice. Now, Gaza’s remaining journalists transportation the value of documenting the war, risking their lives each day. Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi, precocious changeable by Israeli forces, lies paralyzed and successful a coma, denied aesculapian evacuation from Gaza’s crumbling wellness attraction system. His workfellow Shabat pleads: “All we request is for you not to permission america alone, screaming… with nary 1 to perceive us.” Jagjit Singh

Humane warfare

Atlanta: To Voicer Ken Derow: The atrocities committed connected Oct. 7, 2023, and the information that Gazans cheered Hamas’ committedness to inflict 1,000 specified days connected Israelis person convinced Israel’s leaders that it indispensable triumph a decisive triumph implicit Hamas, to beryllium followed by the demilitarization of Gaza and the de-radicalization of the Palestinians. Yet, the IDF has worked precise hard to debar sidesplitting civilians successful Gaza and has been commended by Major John Spencer, caput of Urban Warfare Studies astatine West Point’s Modern Warfare Institute, for achieving the lowest ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths ever seen for warring successful a densely populated country similar Gaza. While ratios arsenic precocious arsenic 9:1 person been recorded, the ratio successful Gaza is person to 5:1. This is particularly singular due to the fact that Hamas’ extended web of panic tunnels among the Gaza populace has fundamentally wiped retired immoderate favoritism betwixt civilian areas and combat zones. Toby F. Block

Victims nary more

Margate, Fla.: For much than a century, the pogroms of anti-Zionism person demonstrated the precarious beingness of the Jewish people. (“Israel’s shot fans attacked successful Amsterdam, 5 hospitalized,” Nov. 9). From Kishinev (1903) to Hebron (1929) to Kristallnacht (1938) to Amsterdam (2024), it is evident that beardown Jewish self-defense is simply a necessity to face the maniacal unit of the anti-Zionists. Richard Sherman

Elex tricks

Staten Island: There is nary mode that Donald Trump won this predetermination legitimately. It seems statistically intolerable that Kamala Harris did not triumph 1 battleground authorities — states that had galore Dems winning down ballot. Purging rolls of eligible voters, closing polls, not extending clip successful catastrophe areas, weaponry threats astatine the polls and bombings of ballot boxes. MAGA threats and attacks connected canvass workers. Definite Republican elector suppression occurred. Elon Musk/Starlink/Putin — link the dots. Wake up, America. Michael Rosenkrantz

Forfeited

Providence, R.I.: Re “NYC Democrats had nary crushed to amusement up to vote,” (op-ed, Nov. 10): The Donald makes you writhe with pain? / You didn’t vote? Then don’t complain. Felicia Nimue Ackerman

Strong picks

Clearwater, Fla.: Re “Immigration hard-liner acceptable to triumph cardinal White House position” (Nov. 11): Not lone is Stephen Miller the best, but helium volition bring strength, power, acquisition and a immense magnitude of cognition to the Trump team. As we tin see, Trump’s squad and furniture volition undoubtedly beryllium arsenic bully arsenic it gets. JoAnn Lee Frank

Work for the best

Warwick, R.I.: It’s been a week since the predetermination and with a caller administration, present is the clip for them to enactment to guarantee that each Americans whitethorn payment from the transition. The weeks up volition beryllium filled with announcements of candidates for furniture positions and different indispensable medication jobs that volition support our state moving smoothly. It volition not beryllium an casual task arsenic already, absorption is gathering enactment for defiance of immoderate enactment they deem unacceptable oregon unenforceable. Our state has ever had part betwixt other factions, but this twelvemonth it appears to beryllium stronger and could perchance origin civilian unrest. The request is to temper the rhetoric connected some sides and hold until the caller Congress and enforcement subdivision connection their programs for reducing inflation, migration and nationalist safety. Compromise should beryllium employed truthful that some parties tin judge immoderate communal solutions. Bob Sweeney

One much shot

Bronx: The president of the United States from 2017-2021 has a laundry database of ignorance arsenic good arsenic trying to rewrite each the errors made. Not acknowledging his shortcomings is thing to observe. We volition beryllium acceptable to cheer a occupation good done, but we volition telephone it arsenic we spot it. In baseball, we say, “Strike 1 is ne'er an retired and doesn’t extremity an at-bat.” In this game, onslaught 2 does. Mark Benveniste

Fatigued faith

Spring Lake, N.J.: Greg Marotta deed the nail close connected the caput (“Lucky Donald wins it each again,” op-ed, Nov. 8). I excessively americium disappointed and disgusted that supposedly spiritual and patriotic American voters erstwhile again elected specified an ignorant and deranged individual. I’m 75 and person seen immoderate atrocious politicians, but nary that comparison to this con man. I’m besides done. The American emblem that I’ve flown regular for the past 4 years has travel down and my anticipation for a amended America has evaporated. Alfred De Santis

Borders oregon bust

Medford, L.I.: Trump needs to physique a bluish partition — and person tariffs wage for it! He is proposing a slew of taxation cuts successful his archetypal 100 days successful office, and to wage for it, is envisioning a projected 20% cosmopolitan tariff connected foreign-produced goods, with an added tariff of up to 60% for goods produced successful China. I telephone that a bully commencement to backing and completing the confederate partition earlier the wide deportation commences. But I suggest Trump goes 1 measurement further by expanding these tariffs — peculiarly from China — to wage for the operation of a partition connected the bluish border, which is becoming an expanding nationalist migraine. By the extremity of Trump’s word successful January 2029, helium should employment what Elon Musk would telephone a “maniacal consciousness of urgency” to seal the country’s borders erstwhile and for each from amerciable migration and the scourge of drugs. Eugene R. Dunn

Impending price

Manhattan: Look for Project 2025 to beryllium implemented precise soon acknowledgment to galore Democrats and Independents who couldn’t basal the thought of having a president who made mistakes successful 1 statement (something Trump does each the time) and having a pistillate arsenic president. Edward Drossman

Unsupported

Boynton Beach, Fla.: Voicer Tom Saracco, similar Trump and different right-wing pundits, accuses President Biden of lying to the nationalist erstwhile helium ran successful 2020. In emblematic MAGA faithful fashion, Saracco hits america with rhetoric only, conveniently omitting notation to immoderate facts to enactment what helium is saying. Wouldn’t it beryllium shocking if a MAGA supporter, oregon adjacent Trump himself, presented immoderate facts erstwhile successful a portion to enactment what they are saying alternatively of ever taking america connected a fact-free one-way travel to rhetorical La La Land? William T. Bredin

Give ’em up

Port Jefferson Station, L.I.: Woody Johnson, if you attraction astir the fans of the N.Y. Jests (sic), you volition merchantability the squad ASAP earlier your buddy DJT sends you disconnected to different ambassadorship, hopefully to 1 of the “-stans,” wherever you volition thrive. Your ownership of this squad has been an unmitigated disaster. Please, sell. Bob Cavaliere