To the editor: On Israel’s seventy fifth anniversary, The Instances selected to publish Nicholas Goldberg’s destructive column.
Israel’s positives far outweigh the negatives. It’s a distinctive, vibrant democracy surrounded by hostile international locations. Protests there are peaceable, and governments change repeatedly in accordance with the vote.
There isn’t a nation on the planet that has reached out a lot to its enemies by giving up land received defending itself and making concessions. These makes an attempt have been rebuffed with terrorist assaults. This actuality has led to a hardened, nationalist, right-wing governing majority.
Israel is a tiny sliver of a rustic with a inhabitants lower than Los Angeles County. We have to acknowledge the geographic and geopolitical realities and have a good time the truth that this tiny Jewish state with a various inhabitants has managed to outlive and thrive in opposition to all odds.
Thomas Einstein, Santa Monica
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To the editor: In his very high quality opinion piece, Goldberg clearly and forcefully elucidates in historic context Israel’s central political downside: What promised to be a haven for persecuted Jews and a bastion of democracy within the Center East has grow to be an enemy of its personal aspirations.
Its brutal and provocative occupation of the West Financial institution has grow to be a brutal colonization. This stands in stark distinction to its founding rules for its personal residents.
How very unhappy and consequential that its authorities has not but put in place stable steps that will finish the strife by working towards a viable, unbiased state for Palestinians. The continuance of battle makes the potential of a great neighbor for Israel much less and fewer seemingly.
Kathleen Trinity, Acton
