Letter to the Editor: David L. Kaliner

Letter to the editor,

Amid raging battle, as explosions intensely light up the sky in Gaza, a disturbing anti-Semitic war continues to heat up around the world. Protest rallies supporting anti-Semitism and terrorist ideologies have spread across many college campuses and elsewhere, exposing a hazardous and clueless population.

An unfathomably dangerous Middle East situation of enormous concern, this wildly barbaric bloody invasion by Hamas terrorists that began on Oct. 7, resulted in horrendous torture and slaughtering of countless innocent victims. Along with incredibly cruel acts of violence, death and destruction, Hamas must be held accountable for at least two hundred people abducted and held as hostages.

Evil strategic activities set forth by other foes of Israel as well, particularly Lebanese Hezbollah militants, add to these complexities on multiple fronts. A network of terrorist proxies by Iran, built up since 1979, continues to infect the region.

The Donald Trump administration, according to U.S. Ambassador and State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator Nathan Sales, “has been relentless in its use of sanctions tools to increase pressure on the Iranian regime, not only for its support of terrorism around the world, but for its manifest human rights violations at home.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be highly commended for his strong inspirational leadership in these extremely difficult times. He recently asserted, “We have to win to protect Israel. We have to win to safeguard the Middle East. We have to win for the sake of the civilized world… If we don’t win now, then Europe is next and you’re next. And we have to win.”

God bless the Israel Defense Forces. My prayers are for the safety of all innocent victims and for Israel’s survival into the future.

David L. Kaliner, Las Vegas, Nev.