Letters to the Editor — May 21, 2023

Gavin’s pandering

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has once more proven himself to be a world-class panderer (“A No-Win For Gavin,” Could 15).

After all he declines to endorse this senseless reparations proposal.

California, already strapped by monetary woes, can’t severely entertain such lunacy.

However Newsom, poseur that he’s, can’t resist the chance to heap flowery reward on the state job pressure answerable for this daft suggestion.

Are there any adults in California able to talking out in opposition to this nonsense?

Is there anybody with the braveness to counsel that billions of taxpayer {dollars} have already been invested in numerous applications and businesses whose sole goal has been to uplift California’s minority group?

Will this lunacy ever cease? I believe not.

Mitchell Schwefel

Barnegat, NJ

Anti-Israel pols

New York legislators Zohran Mamdani and Jabari Brisport in all probability know that the invoice they’re proposing regarding charities helping Israeli Jews in supposedly “occupied” Palestinian land (sic) is a type of Trojan Horse for the continuing Palestinian effort to destroy Israel (“NY Legislature ‘Mideast struggle,’ ” Could 17).

In any case, most Palestinians regard all of Israel as occupied, not simply Judea and Samaria.

However within the unlikely case they’re clueless, listed here are the info: Previous to the Oslo Accords, there was by no means any state of Palestine.

The one territory Palestinians have ever managed was granted to them as a part of the Oslo Accords.

The extra land that Palestinians need is both disputed or contains Israel.

Within the Oslo Accords, Palestinians agreed to Israeli management of Areas B (safety) and C (safety and civil) of Judea and Samaria till a negotiated remaining settlement, which the Palestinians have rejected a number of occasions.

There may be due to this fact no occupation and no such factor as historic Palestinian land per se.

Israeli Jews have each proper to reside in disputed territories, and charities which help them there are completely professional.

Daniel Trigoboff

Williamsville

Philly’s ‘protected’ vote

{That a} plurality of Philadelphia Democrats supported the candidacy of somebody in favor of robust legislation enforcement is unsurprising (“Philly Dems Vote for Public Security,” Editorial, Could 18).

It shouldn’t be forgotten {that a} mayor named Frank Rizzo was victorious within the Democratic main there in opposition to left-wing opposition, and that Ed Rendell not solely turned mayor however went on to grow to be governor of Pennsylvania primarily based largely on his devotion to each public security and power growth.

This actually distinguishes Philadelphia from New York usually and from Manhattan notably.

Maybe a raised violent-crime price mixed with retailer closings of their neighborhoods will awaken New Yorkers to the risks of woke insurance policies.

Sadly, they should wait at the least one other three years to rid themselves of the insurance policies ensuing from their votes in the previous few elections.

David Levine

Hobe Sound, Fla.

Rudy’s decline

A era in the past, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was extremely regarded for decreasing New York Metropolis’s crime price, restoring its glory and main the town throughout its worst calamity (“Giuliani ‘abu$ed’ me: swimsuit,” Could 16).

Since then, he has immersed himself in former President Donald Trump’s internal circle, unfold lies concerning the 2020 election, tarnished his prior sterling popularity and is now being sued for sexual assault and false statements that led to an arrest.

I’m not speculating concerning the accuracy of those newest allegations, however I stay up for watching the inevitable mini-series on his fall from grace.

Paul L. Newman

Merion Station, Pa.

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