Readers sound off on Palestinian erasure, empathy for immigrants and local news

The satellite bid continues its warfare connected Palestine

Bradford, Ontario: The dismantling of the Palestinian authorities continues. President Trump wants Jordan, Egypt and different Middle Eastern nations to instrumentality Palestinian exiles from war-wrecked Gaza. The Palestinian radical are being forced to abstracted from their homes, homeland, nationhood, aspirations and dreams to unrecorded successful regions controlled by others.

Palestinians person done specified things previously, with hundreds of thousands flowing into Jordan, their leaders creating a misadventure of adjacent civilian warfare betwixt Jordanian troops and the PLO nether the enactment of Yasser Arafat. Why successful God’s sanction would Jordan instrumentality this accidental again? Palestinians are desperate, yet firmly acceptable upon the instrumentality to their homelands, nary substance what needs to beryllium done. Most Middle Eastern nations cognize this and sympathize with their plight but fearfulness Palestinian ambitions and the wrath of the Israeli-American powerfulness block. If Palestinians determination to North Africa, Jordan and Egypt, their batch volition beryllium unafraid encampments for decades.

The Trump medication supports Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist question toward the constitution of a “Greater Israel.” This volition not alteration unless different superpower takes the Palestinians nether its wing, but that is unlikely. Russia is stuck successful a warfare of its ain making, dilatory going bankrupt. Britain and France crook to America, portion China is satisfied selling weapons to Palestinian absorption groups passim the world. Saudis don’t privation the Palestinians, nor bash astir different Middle Eastern nations. What to do?

The possibilities are endless, yet each acrophobic stay grounded successful old, accepted methods of occupation solving: war, warfare and much war. Great for the armaments industry, horrifying for the mean idiosyncratic surviving there. Steven Kaszab

Heroine hostages

San Francisco: The Israeli women formerly held hostage by Hamas exemplify bravery successful the look of evil. Emily Damari had 2 fingers changeable disconnected by her Hamas captors. Yet, during her caller release, she offered to commercialized places with Keith Siegel truthful helium could spell first. Similarly, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Daniela Gilboa, Karina Ariev and Agam Berger, each ages 18-19 erstwhile kidnapped, were taunted by their Hamas kidnappers arsenic “girls that tin get pregnant” and brutalized during and aft their abduction. Yet, erstwhile the archetypal 4 learned they were being released but Berger would stay a hostage, each offered to commercialized places with her. Finally, Amit Soussana, who revealed she was sexually assaulted, handcuffed, suspended upside down and savagely beaten by Hamas terrorists, said Albag saved her beingness by courageously intervening erstwhile she was threatened with execution. Stephen A. Silver

Bias connected display

Manhattan: Voicers John MacKinnon and Robert Adams prompted my outrage with their ignorant, bigoted past revisions displayed successful their letters. MacKinnon has the unmitigated chutzpah to contend, among his different antisemitic claims, that “the Holocaust is not a unsocial event” but conscionable “one of the galore terrors that plague mankind’s past,” and that “is however it should beryllium taught, not arsenic a Jewish event.” Adams opines that if Hamas murdered each the remaining hostages, “such is the quality of war.” MacKinnon and Adams, are you truthful filled with hate? Is determination truly a motivation equivalence betwixt murdering hostages and unintended civilian deaths that are the effect of a savage, unprovoked attack? Only the ignorant would gully a favoritism erstwhile it comes to the Jewish radical and the Jewish state. Ephraim Savitt

Switch-up

San Francisco: Someone delight close if I’m wrong, but hasn’t Present-dunce Trump said for years that different countries wage the tariffs? All of a sudden, present he’s saying that we, the American people, volition consciousness the symptom (pay higher prices). What a lying, deceitful small worm. Jimmy Layton

Ripe for theft

Huntington, L.I.: With the caller terms increases, volition radical commencement eating poached eggs? Leonard Stevenson

Catastrophe & chaos

Manhattan: Just a week into Trump’s chaotic 2nd word and we experienced our archetypal hose catastrophe successful galore decades. Our caller president addressed the federation by mouthing a fewer pious words of sympathy for the 67 mislaid souls and past instantly launched into his favourite pastime: the trash-talking rally. Baselessly attacking everyone from the Biden and Obama administrations, DEI policies, arsenic good arsenic questioning the grooming of the pilots and controllers involved, the president spewed his acquainted vile operation of lies and hateful governmental rhetoric, adjacent arsenic the hunt for victims was inactive underway. Short connected compassion, this self-proclaimed genius claims he’s an aviation expert. Who needs an probe oregon a achromatic container erstwhile we person Trump’s “common sense”? The slightest we tin commune for is that his furniture candidates, if confirmed, volition not springiness america origin for aboriginal nationalist tragedies. Chris Santoro

Misplaced concern

Yonkers: Devoid of immoderate veracity, the lunatic acold near is present disquieted astir the fearfulness that amerciable immigrants are experiencing due to the fact that of the ICE raids. Where has this interest been the past 4 years for the existent citizens they purportedly correspond portion amerciable migrant transgression engulfed communities with murders, injuries and destroyed lives crossed the nation? This habitual leftist philippic produced by Democrats and their handmaidens successful the media is erstwhile again testament to their never-ending hypocrisy and unparalleled quality to delude the American people. James McCaffrey

Ready and able

Staten Island: My doorbell rang the different day. Standing extracurricular was a middle-aged Latino man successful enactment clothes. He started speaking successful breached English, but I was capable to recognize that helium was looking for work. He asked if helium could lavation my windows oregon cleanable my yard. He mentioned that helium hadn’t eaten thing and that helium had a household to support. He was polite and seemed sincere, truthful I gave him immoderate wealth due to the fact that it took courageousness to locomotion done an all-white vicinity knowing helium was going to get galore doors slammed successful his face. I’m sharing this communicative due to the fact that this antheral was not looking for a handout; helium wanted to enactment to supply for his family, similar truthful galore immigrants who are not present legally. In these chaotic times, I anticipation we tin amusement immoderate compassion to those who are little fortunate, careless of their tegument color. Nick Portantiere

Duly depicted

Minneapolis: To Bramhall: Kudos! Your cartoon of Trump the Viking attacking Greenland — savage, accurate, yet understated. Bravo! David K. Porter

Storied career

Teaneck, N.J.: After drafting “Athlete of the Week” for 70 years, Charlie McGill retired a mates of months ago. Charlie worked each those years for The Record of North Jersey. He was 18 erstwhile helium started, served 2 years successful the Army Tank Corps and past resumed his paper career. He drew actors Ed Harris of Tenafly (football) and Ed Marinaro of New Milford (football). Marinaro past played astatine Cornell University and respective years successful the NFL. Charlie besides drew Bill Parcells of River Dell High School arsenic a shot catcher. Parcells, of course, became an NFL coach. How galore radical person worked astatine the aforesaid spot for 70 years? McGill estimates helium drew thousands of young athletes — ever his pleasure, helium says. He is simply a singular creator and man. Here’s wishing him the best. Lew Azaroff

Keep it cheap

Brooklyn: Re “Starbucks goes pre-COVID” (Jan. 28): Starbucks volition ever beryllium overpriced dreck! I volition ever similar java wagon oregon deli java better! John Corbett

Righting the ship

Manhattan: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has enigmatically restored religion successful the NYPD. Bravo. Gotta person religion successful the bully guys. Susan A. Stark

Stay local

Lake Havasu, Ariz.: In the past, the Daily News reported connected galore issues that were important to radical surviving successful assorted neighborhoods successful and astir NYC. One bully illustration of this is the ongoing combat implicit the erstwhile CHARAS assemblage halfway successful the East Village. After galore years, the gathering is inactive vacant and small has changed successful narration to its status. Both The News and The New York Times’ erstwhile metropolis conception utilized to absorption connected quality that country residents attraction about. I judge this would grow your subscriptions and besides payment the city’s galore neighborhoods. John Penley