Hamas atrocities
On Oct. 12 I viewed the reporting of one of the most horrible atrocities committed by Hamas on i24News from Israel. A pregnant Israeli woman was found brutally murdered and her baby sliced from her womb and knifed.
Why has this unspeakable horror been widely unreported in the US media?
Ellie Hochenberg, anchor for i24 News Global Eye, was in tears as Yossi Landau described what his recovery team had witnessed. In the same broadcast, Hochenberg showed the photos of a burned Israeli baby and another baby with a sliced throat. The Israeli government released the photos after media claimed the reports of slaughtered Israeli babies were “unverified.”
Make no mistake, Hamas is ISIS and celebrates in the darkest of monstrous murderous evil.
John Meinhold
Portsmouth, NH
Robbins got it right
I never thought it would happen. In fact, I believed that it would be a cold day in hell before I agreed with anything Jeff Robbins would write. But, his “Echoes from the Holocaust,” (10/14), was on target. Hamas’ attack on Israel was horrendous and Israel’s right to respond accordingly is required of a nation whose border was violated and innocents murdered. The Biden administration has a history of appeasement for Iran and Hamas is and always has been a proxy force of Iran’s hate for Israel and America.
Donald Trump made it clear that he had Israel’s back. He fortified Israel with weapons. He recognized Jerusalem as the Israel’s capitol and moved the U.S. embassy there. He froze billions of dollars of Iranian assets that are used to support terrorists like Hamas. And, he made it clear that any government that used a terrorist group as a proxy for terror would be held responsible for American deaths. Now, we wait for Biden to further bungle a tepid response to his foreign policy of appeasement.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
Harvard statement
The Harvard president’s initial statement following the anti-Semitic declaration of 30 student groups was woefully inadequate and betrayed the academic political correctness that is justifiably criticized by those of us who do not dwell in her world. Her follow-up condemnation of the horrific terror attack by Hamas killers was forced on her by outraged alumni, and thus she is permanently stained by her ignorance and cowardly initial behavior. The proper response was that of alumnus Bill Ackman who robustly criticized the students and called for their names to be made public so that these bigots can be tracked after graduation and when seeking jobs.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
Students speak
Harvard’s response to its student factions’ blaming of Israel for Hamas’ slaughter of innocents has been merely to state that student groups do not speak for Harvard.
Well then, who does? Apparently the cat’s got the collective tongues of Harvard’s administrators. It is a shame.
Bob Finneran
Walpole
