The U.S. is in league with Israel’s war crimes
Orlando: The Gaza Strip and the West Bank are sites of two of the most heinous atrocities of the 21st century. What Israel practices with the Palestinians amounts to apartheid. The Gaza Strip is what the Soweto township was in South Africa. The world has a front-row seat to genocide while no Western country is calling out Israel for its atrocities. You don’t hear about sanctions or tariffs on Israel, or blocking it from the SWIFT financial payment system. When it comes to Muslim countries, there seems to be a blind-eye approach to human suffering.
Gaza has seen more than 56,000 Palestinians killed and thousands more missing since Oct. 7, 2023. The majority of deaths have been Palestinian women and children, and this is no accident. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows what he’s doing. By killing women and children, he’s killing the future of the Palestinian people. Since kids have a tendency to cling to their mothers, it’s a bonus kill — two birds with one stone. If Israel slaughtered 56,000 dogs, the world would be in an uproar. A Palestinian life must be worth less than a dog’s. What’s the magic number before people finally acknowledge the genocide — 100,000, 1 million?
One of Netanyahu’s main goals is to clear Gaza for development. If Palestinians can’t stay in Gaza, then Israel is doing ethnic cleansing, a violation of international law. Palestinians in the West Bank aren’t faring any better with ever-expanding Israeli settlements. The rule of law doesn’t apply to Israel? It’s the only nation the U.S. bows down to! If I didn’t know better, I’d think the U.S. was a former Israeli colony instead of a former British one. Lee R. Pitts
What’s the deal?
Brooklyn: Could the good people of the Daily News please educate me about something? In all the years I’ve been hearing about Israel, what has Israel done for the United States? I keep hearing that Israel is our greatest ally. We send billions of dollars to them, yet I don’t hear about them helping the U.S. It sounds like it’s a one-way street. The print media and especially Sean Hannity of Fox News, could you guys be protecting these people? Why? Please educate me about what’s going on. Every minute on the news: Israel, Israel, Israel. Anthony Marano
Ruinous win
Manhattan: Voicer Wayne Bailey of the Vancouver Baileys must be either a stand-up comedian or an Iranian mouthpiece when he asserts that Iran was the victor in the recent Israeli-U.S. destruction of Iran’s air defenses, nuclear infrastructure and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ top command. May the evil Iranian mullah-run government continue to sustain such incredible victories until the Iranian people achieve the freedom they finally deserve! Ephraim Savitt
Coordinated attack
Ashburn, Va.: I’m still trying to decide whether to laugh or cry. The White House reports that shortly before the Iranians conducted their recent missile attack against the U.S. military base in Qatar, President Trump approved their attack, right down to the timing. The Iranians, he said, “were very nice. They gave us warning. They said, ‘We’re going to shoot ’em. Is one o’clock OK?’ I said, ‘It’s fine.’ ” Incredible! Mark Twain was right: Truth is stranger than fiction. Mike Barrett
Retracted ideal
Lackawaxen, Pa.: Alan M. Dershowitz rails at what he terms “Antisemitism by omission: new, real & dangerous” (op-ed, July 6), a novel whine when the facts are diminishing Zionists’ claims of victimhood daily. In this new formulation, bias need not be affirmatively expressed — it is present merely in the failure to suppress speech criticizing Israel’s unwarranted violence toward the Palestinians. Combat fatalities are not among the leading causes of death in Israel. Oct. 7 may have been an embarrassment to Israeli intelligence but it was hardly an existential threat. Dershowitz, who once championed child pornography as free speech, now seems to want to silence any voices that might be damaging to the psyche of a Jewish college student. In the past, he has retracted previous statements when in conflict with his new positions, so with respect to restricting speech, he may feel he is right now and wrong then. John A. MacKinnon
Legal recourse
Southfield, Mich.: I want to thank Rep. Jerry Nadler and his House colleagues — Reps. Laurel Lee, Scott Fitzgerald, Maggie Goodlander and Jamie Raskin — for introducing the HEAR Act Improvements of 2025. In collaboration with survivor Clara Garbon-Radnoti, our work at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., uncovered 180 microfilm reels documenting Nazi-looted art from more than 3,700 Hungarian Jewish families. The records list masterpieces by El Greco, Lucas Cranach and Mihály Munkácsy, among others — still held by Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery. With the 2016 HEAR Act set to expire this January, and legal hurdles raised by the Supreme Court’s Republic of Hungary vs. Simon ruling, these families need continued access to U.S. courts. Passing S. 1884 will eliminate the sunset clause, close loopholes and allow claims based on facts, not technicalities. Let us stand with survivors, honor their heritage, and ensure that justice finally prevails. Jonathan H. Schwartz
Pathological liar
Flushing: As I listened to Trump describing his recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill as “very popular” even though polling showed otherwise — 55% opposed the bill, 29% supported it and 16% were unsure — I was reminded of the column by S.E. Cupp (“There is no Iran truth from the liar in chief,” June 26) where she quoted humorist Josh Billings: “There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.” She points out that fact-checkers at The Washington Post “documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first presidential term; an average of 21 per day.” Trump lied about Jan. 6, and he continues to lie about the 2020 election, Gaza, Russia, migrants, tariffs, our allies, members of Congress and so much more. Sadly, unless there are fact-checkers following him everywhere, he will continue to get away with it. Al Musaffi
Out-conned
Somerset, N.J.: I have an explanation for what just happened in Washington. A con man always thinks he’s the smartest guy on the block, so he’ll always be the first one who gets taken in when a bigger con man comes around. All of those Republican congressional con men simply got taken for a ride when they encountered a bigger con man. Morris D. Fried
Hilarious praise
Philadelphia: Thank you, Voicer Fran Bocignone, for the best laugh I have had in quite some time. Your comment that Jesus appointed “Elon Musk as our savior” made me spit out my coffee on my copy of the Daily News when I was reading it. Are you perhaps a professional comic? If not, you should consider a new career in comedy. For some reason, Voicer Bocignone, this brainless (quoting you here) Daily News reader can not, for some unexplained reason, accept a Nazi-saluting father of more than a dozen children conceived out of wedlock as his new savior. I hope Jesus and you are not too overwhelmed by my brainlessness. Ambrose Woolfinger
Failure to launch
East Meadow, L.I.: Musk is trying to launch a new political party, but it keeps exploding. Richard Skibins
Gratuitous interest
Lake Havasu, Ariz.: I wanted to thank the Daily News for your lack of coverage of the over-the-top, super-rich elites’ wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, which I found disgusting, especially the $5 million ring the rest of the media all showed in a photo. The wedding turned out to be a great reason to vote for a socialist mayor, and thanks again for not following everyone else who headlined this “Let them eat cake” event. John Penley
Out-of-control drivers
Valley Stream, L.I.: Cars don’t go “out of control” on their own (“Fatal crash questions,” July 8). The driver of the BMW creating havoc on the Belt Parkway — and many other drivers who operate these high-performance automobiles — drive them recklessly while exceeding the speed limit. Innocent lives are put in harm’s way due to the selfishness of these fools who think they are playing video games on their PlayStation. Enough is enough. Seize the cars of these lawbreakers and send them to local police auctions. Vince Sgroi
