Abbas Meets Ahmadinejad at Cairo Summit

Sir, - Forget all the rhetoric! Clear your minds of all the obfuscation! Rid yourselves of all your delusions! Open your eyes and clearly see the handwriting on the wall! Be aware of the very real and imminent danger that Israel faces.

The headlines shout "PA president meets with Iran's Ahmadinejad at Cairo Islamic summit." This was the second meeting since September, when Abbas met with the Iranian president in Tehran, at the summit of the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement. Be assured that when the world's two foremost Holocaust deniers get together, it is not for any benevolent purpose. Also be totally convinced that these were not accidental meetings where the two 'happened' to bump into each other. The same is also quite clearly true of the meetings between Abbas and the Hamas leadership, wherein he desperately pleads for the unification of the two organizations.

What do Tehran and Hamas have in common? They both unabashedly, shamelessly, and publicly call for armed struggle against the State of Israel and the annihilation of the Zionist entity. Israel is very close to getting stuck on the tracks, while the alarm bells are clanging, the barriers are lowering, and the train is hurtling at a frightening speed towards our destruction.

It is about time that we face reality and recognize the true face of our enemies.

ZEV CHAMUDOT
Petach Tikva

[Image credit: Barry Hanau]

Outrageous!: Joseph Massad on Homeland Show

Sir, - Seth J. Frantzman's articles have been consistently intelligent and well reasoned and we owe him a vote of thanks for his exposition of the very serious breach of academic ethics at one of America's prestigious universities. In his article "Homeland, the Jews and Columbia University," Frantzman reveals the shocking bias and perversity to be found in the classroom of a leading university with the apparent acceptance by the administration.

Frantzman relates several instances where Professor Joseph Massad has verbalized racially offensive remarks in his classroom. He seems to be obsessed with the racial composition of his classroom and of the characters that he teaches about. In his critique of the popular Homeland television series he constantly and gratuitously refers to them as "suspiciously brown" or "wed to a Jew" or the "Hindu" without any rational connection to the performer's role.

It is worthy of note, that it was Columbia University that unhesitatingly permitted Iran's President Ahmadinejad to deliver one his infamous tirades. There seems to be no doubt that Prof. Massad is "suspiciously Nazi" and most clearly unbalanced, which does not speak well for the university.

It would be of supreme interest if Massad would relate to President Obama, as being "suspiciously Brown" on his father's side and "Halachically White" on his mother's!

ZEV CHAMUDOT
Petach Tikva

[Image credit: Salaam Shalom; video credit: Showtime]

J.Post May 4: Don't Worry About Iran, Says J Street

Sir, - Jeremy Ben-Ami's capacity for unmitigated hutzpa seems to far exceed his ability to think logically. He does not permit himself to be confused by the facts.

Obsessed by the need for a Palestinian state, he insists on offering this as a panacea for every problem relating to the Arab-Israel conflict. His gross naivete affects his judgment of the rabid Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, leaving him unconvinced of Iranian malice toward Israel, and of the very real threat to world stability.

'Iran has been an Islamic republic for 30 years, yet there's been no indication that it intends to invade a nation,' he argues myopically.

After my valiant effort to understand Ben-Ami's responses to his able interviewer, I suggest he changes the name of his organization to Sesame Street.

ZEV CHAMUDOT

Petach Tikva

[Image credit: Flickr user jstreetdotorg]