Thanks, Howard Weber

Thanks, Howard, for your letter-to-the-editor in the New York Times:

To the Editor:

“Settlements.” The word has become demonized to the extent that “settlements” are blamed as the main obstacle to Middle East peace. Of course the Arab nations attacked Israel between 1948 and 1967 before there were any settlements.

And when Israel painfully pulls its people out of settlements and turns them over to the Palestinians, as most recently witnessed in Gaza, the former settlements are used as launching pads for rocket attacks on Israel.

Blaming the settlements effectively takes the world’s eye off the real problem in the Middle East: the Arab refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state.

Howard Weber
President, Coalition for Israel
New York, March 11, 2010