COOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN

The unbridled hatred toward Jews and the State of Israel can be attributed to the baffling need to disavow a race of people who have dedicated themselves to blessing a world that doesn’t want them.

Israel greatly benefited from the strength and fortitude displayed by the world’s superpower, which came to the rescue alongside the Jewish state.

Will Israel abandon those unable to provide the requisite rabbinical letter? If so, how could Israel claim moral superiority to countries that turned away boatloads of Jews fleeing Nazi Europe?

The Interior Ministry is run by a handful of overzealous bureaucrats who take their orders from the country’s religious parties and leaders who are not keen on accepting all Jews.

When their new mayor cannot disavow the call for a global intifada, how can they feel secure, knowing that his benefactors are those who hate them the most?

It's hard to have faith Hamas will step down when they actively say they have no intention to disarm or move aside for new leadership.

These calls to kill Jews indicate that we are, once again, at a time when society has broken down and is desperately in need of profound soul-searching.

In truth, it doesn’t take much thought to come to the conclusion that violence, as a means to accomplish one’s personal aspirations, is always wrong and always evil.

Leaders may try to convince themselves that they haven’t really been bought.

If Mamdani had one shred of honesty, he might be forthright enough to admit that the discomfort he feels is that Jews are permitted to have a state with a right to defend itself.