The Issue: President Biden withholding military aid to Israel in an effort to stop the IDF from entering Rafah.
How much lower can our shameless president sink (“Biden is tying Bibi’s arms,” May 9)?
After initial support for Israel following Hamas’ barbaric attack, President Biden has halted arms shipments to Israel that were approved by Congress. In Biden’s world, support for Israel translates into hollow words at a Holocaust memorial ceremony.
My suggestion: Quit the phony rhetoric and provide Israel with what it needs to neutralize Hamas, reject funding from those who perpetuate campus antisemitism and be the leader you were elected to be in dealing with Iran and other promoters of terror and anti-American actions.
Yakov Moshe, Brooklyn
Biden is now withholding munitions that Israel has been duly authorized to receive by Congress to combat Hamas’ terrorist army.
He says Israel has the right to destroy Hamas yet Hamas is embedded within a civilian population in Rafah.
The president now needs to decide if he will stand with critics of Israel or if he can drop his craven political instincts and allow morality and decency to prevail in Israel’s existential war against Hamas.
That requires entry into Rafah to destroy the remaining terrorist battalions.
Matthew Brief
Manhattan
President Biden’s administration wants it both ways: to unconditionally arm the Israeli state against Gaza and to keep the anti-war voters onboard come election time.
But a sizable chunk of traditionally Democratic voters — adamantly against and angry about the alleged large-scale starvation and mass slaughter by Israel against Palestinian non-combatants — credibly threaten to abandon Biden at the ballot box.
When the president finally called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the timing gave it the strong odor of political expediency — for re-election purposes.
It’s doubtful many pro-Palestinian demonstrators will forgive Biden come Election Day.
Frank Sterle Jr.
White Rock, Canada
Any US attempt to complicate Israeli operations will neither hasten the war’s end nor bring peace.
The Biden administration should recognize that Gaza is just one front in a global war being waged against the United States by Iran and its axis.
Charles Michael Sitero
Ormond Beach, Fla.
The Issue: Outcry over Gov. Hochul’s comments about black children and technology in the Bronx.
Gov. Hochul’s assertion that black children in the Bronx don’t know what a computer is should trigger a state investigation (“Bronx is burning mad at Hochul,” May 7).
What on earth has the Department of Education done with the millions of dollars earmarked for Bronx computer literacy over the past 20 years?
Michael Horowitz
Fresh Meadows
Gov. Hochul should resign from office today. Not tomorrow: today. She said “black kids growing up in The Bronx don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is.”
That is a condescending lie that insults every black kid in New York.
Perry Greenberg
Brooklyn
Apparently Hochul made a faux pas by saying at a conference in California that “black kids in The Bronx don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is.”
After being called out on the comment, she said that she had misspoke.
However, this controversy is sure to pass. The parents of the insulted children — as well as most other loyal New York Democrats — will march, en masse, to re-elect her as governor.
Michael Headley
Brooklyn
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