Ideas

To the Editor: The photograph illustrating the JTA article “Pressure mounts on Palestinians to abandon U.N. statehood gambit” shows a billboard-like drawing outlining Jerusalem’s Old City walls and the Dome of the Rock, with “We will return” written above in English and Arabic. In the foreground is a bloodied forearm thrust through barbed wire, the fist […]

To the Editor: If the flotilla passengers do not resist Israel’s legitimate right to inspect all cargo, they will not be harmed. If by “international inspection” the organizers include Israel, again, no one will be harmed. Of course, if the goal of the flotilla organizers and passengers is to provoke Israel into using force rather […]