Letter to the editor: U.S. gives bad advice to Israel

Anyone who learns about the German invasion of Poland in 1939 should also know what preceded it. The Conservative British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proudly showed off his magical piece of paper, which guaranteed that the Germans had no territorial ambitions beyond what they had already taken.

One thing Chamberlain failed to notice was the city of Danzig, (now called Gdansk), which was formerly located in East Prussia. Chamberlain should have understood that the Germans would want to reconquer all formerly German territories.

In today’s crisis, we have the region called the Gaza Strip, which is separated from the region called the West Bank. American presidents like to pretend that Gaza and the West Bank can somehow be united into a single Arab nation, without destroying Israel in the process.

Kamala Harris actually said, “I have studied the maps; there’s nowhere for those folks to go,” as if Egypt is not right there, plain as day, on the other side of Gaza’s border with Egypt. Apparently, she can’t see Egypt on the map.

When the United States gives military advice to Israel, there is much to consider. The United States made a big show of fighting against communism in Southeast Asia, after which they left the North Vietnamese in charge of South Vietnam, and the Khmer Rouge in charge of Cambodia.

Since then, the United States has left the Ayatollahs in charge of Iran, left Hezbollah in charge of Lebanon, left the Taliban in charge of Afghanistan, and left ISIS to threaten Iraq and Syria.

The last time the United States truly won a war was 80 years ago, as 6 million Jews were being killed in the Nazi Holocaust. So now, the United States gives bad military advice to Israel. They have to consider the source.

Eric Haubert, Massillon

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