A board can’t replace peace agreements

San Mateo, Calif.: A new UN Security Council resolution is needed to adjust what appears to be a massive oversight in the recently passed Board of Peace resolution. It must specify that only nations with no ongoing or recent violations of the UN Charter and international law can be situated on this new Board of Peace.

This body should now be composed of nations that are not out of compliance with the UN frameworks for lawful conduct in the world community. Efforts to be immediately undertaken by this newly reconstituted body: All operations and blockades by Israel and the United States against illegally occupied Palestinian lands, as well as Iran, Syria and Lebanon, must immediately cease. Furthermore, the undeclared nuclear status of Israel needs to end as well. It has to open itself to inspection and join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons protocol. This long-running lapse, along with the non-enforcement of previous UN Security Council resolutions, such as Resolution 242, must be addressed.

Other conflicts, such as the civil war in Sudan, the Ukraine/Russia conflict, and the destruction of boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, must stop. The blockades and other acts of war against Cuba have to be handled as well by this all-new Board of Peace.

Danbury, Conn.: President Trump’s obsession with slapping his name on facades and trying to leave a geographic imprint elsewhere borders on the narcissistically psychotic. One of his problems (among many) is his failing to realize that 10 seconds after he’s dead, every one of them will be torn down — as they should be. In the meantime, Lake Ontario........

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