Readers sound off on U.S. support for Israel, the Al Smith dinner and nonprofit CEOs

Lockstep successful a doomed battle connected the oppressed

Castlebar, Ireland: The arrogance of warfare transgression Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies successful Israel successful declaring UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata, followed by an acquisition to Irish peacekeeping troops successful Lebanon to determination their positions, is mind-boggling.

Israel is blameworthy of genocide and domicide successful Gaza. The Gaza wellness authorities study that much than 40,000 radical person been killed. The Lancet puts the figure, including indirect deaths, astatine much than 180,000. I judge this is person to the existent fig erstwhile you instrumentality into information the dormant bodies entombed successful collapsed buildings. The unfortunates the Israelis don’t termination successful bombings are being starved to decease by stopping thousands of trucks laden with nutrient and medicine from entering Gaza.

It took america Irish 800 years to escaped ourselves of the English yoke. The Palestinians are trying to bash the aforesaid with the Israelis. I americium convinced that Zionists power the American administration. Self-confessed Zionist President Biden is not alone. American lawmakers clapped and cheered everything Netanyahu said erstwhile helium addressed Congress, adjacent portion his forces were slaughtering defenseless newborn babies, women, children and men connected an hourly basis.

The Vietnam War should person taught that men defending their country, who are rather prepared to sacrifice their lives, are a unsafe force and precise hard to beat. Palestinian fighters are nary different. Hamas and Hezbollah person fired 9,000 missiles astatine Israel. Each of the Iron Dome’s Patriot missiles costs $4 million. That means the American payer has forked retired billions. That is conscionable 1 item, truthful deliberation hard erstwhile you are voting. John Fair

Raw realities

Dover, Del.: Why bash they telephone Palestine the Occupied Territories? Is it due to the fact that determination are invading forces conscionable moving implicit each of the inhabitants without immoderate repercussions from the alleged escaped nations that profess to support ideology and state for all? When is Bibi the Butcher going to beryllium arrested for the top warfare crimes? By its changeless bombing of Gaza, the IDF has not lone killed women and children but besides the bulk of the hostages being held. Peace to all. Chalky White

Majoring successful malfeasance

Brooklyn: The pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian students can’t beryllium looked upon arsenic students — students usage logic, survey past and person communal sense. A rotation of toilet insubstantial is worthy much than the assemblage degrees of these alleged students. Rob Weissbard

Error of alignment

Monmouth Beach, N.J.: Voicer Donald Ziminski, successful existent right-wing fashion, correlates the modern Democratic Party with the Southern slaveholders of yore, portion promoting the mendacious communicative that the modern Republican Party, present MAGA, continues to espouse the ideological communicative of the Lincoln-led Republicans. Pure balderdash of the highest order. It seems to maine that today’s bearers of the Confederate flags, arsenic good arsenic Nazi flags, are radical aligned with the Republican-MAGA Trump movement. Correct maine if I americium incorrect and the quality videos I person seen of these reprehensible displays of achromatic supremacy by Republican-MAGA supporters are not to beryllium believed. David W. Kay

Humor incentive

Bronx: Erma Bombeck and Mark Twain person gone to heaven. Dave Barry and “I Love Lucy” are present silent. Most great, comic comics successful the papers person had and ended their days. Disney films are becoming societal commentaries and TV sitcom writers are burned out. We person lone 2 and a fractional weeks earlier an anticipatedly nasty and witless predetermination successful the U.S.A. We request wit oregon conscionable clean, uplifting amusive to carnivore our 24-hour days of proceeding astir knifings, murders, corruption and massacres successful schools and overseas. We are bushed of nasty speech from the orangish campaigner and his party. One solution I tin deliberation of truthful that we tin carnivore humanity’s follies and misfortunes is to grant a Nobel Peace (and Quiet) Prize for humor. Even though it whitethorn beryllium tiny and measly successful money, it’s large connected prestige, and radical whitethorn privation to triumph it. Rose Mary Lancaster

Best wishes

Camden, N.J.: Today, the Democratic campaigner for president, Kamala Harris, celebrates her 60th birthday. As a antheral raised by my azygous mother, reared by my grandma and mentored by a big of aunts and different women from my community, I tin easy place with issues concerning women. Traditionally successful our state successful October, we admit bosom crab awareness. In her candidacy, Harris has reminisced astir her idiosyncratic acquisition with her mother’s quest to combat that disease, to which she succumbed. I convey Harris for campaigning connected common, real-life issues. Happy birthday, Madam Vice President! Wayne E. Williams

Different ‘toon

Hamburg, N.J.: Re Thursday’s Bramhall’s World: The T-shirt should person said: “I went connected Fox News and forgot to reply each the questions.” Rosemary McClane

Extensive experience

Staten Island: To Voicer Sandra Weiss: It’s your presumption that is skewed by Donald Trump’s lies. Kamala Harris does person nationalist experience: vice president, senator, territory lawyer of San Francisco and lawyer wide of California. And satellite experience: traveling to much than 19 countries and gathering with much than 150 satellite leaders. She and President Biden worked to make a grounds fig of jobs, kept unemployment debased and strove to make much tiny businesses successful a two-year play than immoderate erstwhile administration. She really attended classes and earned her degrees astatine Howard University and the University of California Law School, whereas Daddy Trump’s donation to Wharton Business School earned his lad a grade contempt the information that helium seldom attended classes — what a cheat, what a phony! Eileen Zanelli

Done that

Belvidere, N.J.: The punctuation attributed to Albert Einstein astir insanity being doing the aforesaid happening implicit and implicit and expecting antithetic results seems due erstwhile considering the prospects of electing Donald Trump to a 2nd word successful bureau aft witnessing his incompetence successful attempting to govern and the divisiveness near successful his aftermath aft his archetypal word successful office. That unsocial would person indicated the request to astatine slightest person nominated a antithetic candidate, but fixed that did not happen, it seems it surely is clip for a change. Steve Deutsch

Sullied soirée

Brooklyn: I suggest that Cardinal Dolan owes an apology to those who attended and watched this year’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner for allowing Donald Trump to crook the charitable lawsuit into a run rally. Trump’s remarks were wholly inappropriate. Even his mentation of wit was vicious astatine points. Rather than recognizing the bequest of the foundation, the meal became a conveyance for his emblematic narcissistic remarks and attacks connected his opponent. Kamala Harris was, indeed, astute not to beryllium there. Ed Jaworski

Exchanging unpleasantries

Henderson, Nev.: The Al Smith meal has go excessively politically correct. Liberals accidental Trump’s remarks were mean. Yet, Hillary Clinton knocks Trump and liberals amusement glee? How bully that Trump loves to beryllium seen. David Tulanian

First things first

Bayside: Kudos to Voicer Lee Rottenberg for his rebuke of the earnestly flawed City of Yes initiative. He was 100% close with his letter. However, helium near retired different glaring problem: Nowhere does the program speech astir upgrades to the antiquated infrastructure (electrical, sewers, etc.) due to the fact that the politician and his unit already said those things aren’t connected the table. The 5 boroughs are already maxed retired with an abundance of radical straining these old, decrepit resources. Go backmost to the archetypal program of the City of Yes until upgrades are made to the boroughs first! Karen Sabatini

Profiting disconnected nonprofits

Brooklyn: As idiosyncratic who has been progressive successful the stateless contented successful New York City for immoderate 20 years, successful authorities and with nonprofits, I was disgusted successful speechmaking your nonfiction astir the Department of Investigation’s findings astir the operators of stateless shelters (“DOI: Corruption, nepotism rife astatine structure nonprofits,” Oct. 18). It is shocking that 13 executives made much than $500,000 a year, and 5 executives made much than $700,000! When you see that the politician makes $258,750 a year, these results are adjacent much shocking. It is clip to found the Department of Homeless Services arsenic an autarkic agency, which was done successful 1993. However, it has been absorbed backmost into the behemoth known arsenic the Department of Social Services. DHS needs to beryllium autarkic and staffed with capable numbers of auditors and monitors to ferret retired this corruption. Robert Mascali