Letter: Regional Stability?

Dear editor:

I agree with Bruce Ticker. (“Column: Regional Instability – So Sad, So Scary, So Vexing” boulderjewishnews.org October 6, 2024.) It’s a miserable situation. But it seems that Israel has realized that it can no longer listen for calls to cease fire which come only as Israel is starting to fight back against attacks on its civilians. Especially after Palestinians cheered Hamas’ vow to inflict a thousand October 7’s on Israel’s people, Israel needs to win a decisive victory over Hamas. And, in light of the fact that Israel is making progress in significantly weakening the terrorist leaders while also succeeding in minimizing collateral damage among civilians, Western leaders and peace-loving Arab leaders have got to support Israel’s drive to, as Sen. Schumer says, “pursue regional stability.” America and other Western countries need to stop slow tracking or embargoing arms shipments to Israel. America needs to return to Pres. Trump’s policies (exporting oil and bankrupting Iran) so that Iran will not only be unable to fund its proxies but will also be unable to develop nuclear weapons. Members of the European Union and Arab states in the Abraham Accords need to work with Israel in achieving the demilitarization of Gaza (and Palestinian-administered areas in Judea and Samaria) as well as the dismantling of UNRWA, with 6,000,000 “Palestine refugees” (99.5% of them born in UNRWA camps) being given the choice of accepting citizenship in Arab countries or joining the ranks of Palestinians working on building a Palestinian state which will co-exist with the nation-state of the Jews. This will require undoing generations of Jew-hatred that’s been spewing from Palestinian mosques, news outlets, and schools. This deradicalization of the Palestinians will not be accomplished overnight but it must begin with Palestinian leaders actually working on building the state they’ve been claiming to want, rather than devoting all their efforts toward destroying Israel.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-808929

Toby F. Block
Atlanta, Georgia