Shameful words from a shameless warmonger

Jersey City: Bravo to your Friday front-page headline “Shame on you” over the photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the UN. On one level, it applied to the Likud government chief’s attempts to justify his ongoing wars and smear New York’s popular mayor for his factual statements about Netanyahu’s indictment by an international court for war crimes, but in a greater sense it applied to Netanyahu himself, who at this point is the chief spreader of antisemitic sentiment and actions around the world.

The entire world supported Israel following the inexcusable Hamas attacks and supported any actions to secure her safety, but two wrongs don’t make a right. In less than a year, Netanyahu and his Likud cronies turned the victim into an international pariah by their attempted genocide (considering the well-documented universal destruction and prevention of food and medical aid reaching their victims in Gaza and their other neighbors, that’s the correct word — not self-defense or even legitimate retribution), not to mention Netanyahu’s ongoing sabotage of every ceasefire or peace negotiation in his effort to cling to office and avoid prison for domestic fiscal crimes.

Israel is going into its own elections, and her true friends pray that Israelis who’ve been demonstrating in the streets against their Likud government’s crimes will reject their prime minister’s shallow campaign event in New York and return their country to responsible government.

Newton, N.J.: To Netanyahu: I hope you have the courage to read this. Not everyone who criticizes Israel is an antisemite, nor is every supporter of........

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