To the editor: The Occasions editorial’s name for the US to help a cease-fire within the Gaza Strip is as comprehensible as it’s short-sighted.
A ceasefire now will enable Hamas to regroup, regain management of Gaza and do what it guarantees to do and has faithfully carried out as finest it might: kill Jews. It can once more in some unspecified time in the future require Israeli retaliation. Those that will undergo once more would be the Palestinian civilians behind whom Hamas is hiding.
Then, after all, The Occasions will once more name for a cease-fire, which, as now, will solely guarantee much more rounds of struggling for Palestinian civilians.
The Chief adopts an angle of humanitarianism, when in actual fact what it recommends will inevitably contain far larger civilian struggling over time. It’s higher for Gaza to lastly be free of Hamas, which has dominated it since 2007.
Fred Baumann, Gambier, Ohio
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To the editor: Thanks for becoming a member of the decision for a ceasefire on this battle after greater than 18,000 pointless Palestinian deaths.
For each Hamas sufferer on October 7, 15 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis, usually with American weapons paid for by our tax {dollars}. By definition, the response has been disproportionate, a struggle crime. That is an ongoing bloodbath, not a struggle.
The editorial was a small step in the suitable course, however it’s too little, too late. We should demand an finish to all non-humanitarian help to Israel, a immediate investigation and prosecution of violations of worldwide regulation, an finish to apartheid and the suitable of return for Palestinian refugees.
Robert Leyland Monefeldt, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Your chief is, as traditional, strongly biased towards Israel’s proper to self-defense.
Nowhere in your editorial is there a name for Hamas to launch the over 150 hostages it’s nonetheless holding. You ignore the truth that Hamas solely agreed to launch hostages in the course of the earlier ceasefire because of Israeli navy strain. With out this navy strain, Hamas terrorists (which you mistakenly label “militants”) will dangle on to the hostages indefinitely.
One other level the editors ought to have thought-about is whether or not a ceasefire will in actual fact finish hostilities between Israel and Hamas. Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas chief, has publicly acknowledged that Hamas will proceed to hold out October 7-type assaults towards Israel.
Because the previous saying goes, it takes two to tango – or on this case enter right into a significant truce.
Andrew C. Sigal, Valley Village