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Letters to the Editor
Avalon
No comparison
with the Germans
It's one thing to protest Israel's treatment of its Palestinian citizens, but entirely another to claim that it is now treating them almost as badly as the Germans treated the Jews ("Israel treats Palestinians badly," letter, Saturday).
Hitler's Germany slaughtered six million Jews in a period of about four years. The German attempts to exterminate the Jewish people led to the murder of many more Jews in a few hours than the number of Palestinian citizens Israel has killed in its entire history.
Samuel W. Kaplan
Philadelphia
Israelis know
what they're doing
Vice President Biden has announced that Israel is free to act in its own best interest in regard to Iran's nuclear threat. (As if the Israelis didn't know that.) I'm glad the United States recognizes the degree of threat posed by Iran ("Biden: Israel free to bomb Iran nuclear sites," Monday).
In 1981, Israel destroyed the nuclear program of Saddam Hussein with a preemptive air strike. Then, President Ronald Reagan allowed the United Nations, for the first time in history, to condemn the Israeli action, and two years later he sent Donald Rumsfeld to make nice to Hussein.
Perhaps we have learned that the Israelis know what they're doing.
I. Milton Karabell
Philadelphia
Discrimination
is ending
After overwhelmingly electing a minority president and 45 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court's ruling in support of equal opportunity for white Connecticut firefighters was a huge step in helping to eliminate job discrimination ("Top court reverses ruling in bias case," June 30).
Are we 100 percent past discrimination issues? Sadly, no, but continued reverse discrimination actions are not part of a permanent solution either.
