Why is the United States funding Israel’s wars?

For centuries, the land of Palestine was inhabited by a diverse population of Muslims, Christians and Jews. That began to change when groups in Europe and the U.S. called Zionists began a colonial enterprise in the late 1800s to take over the land for a Jewish state.

That is what underlies the current situation in which Gaza is being obliterated. Not antisemitism, not desperate strikes by Hamas which conveniently serve as triggers, but a philosophy called Zionism. An imperative that not all Jews or even Israelis support.

However, the USA does support it … to the tune of the equivalent of $10 MILLION a day! At a time when our taxes are being redirected away from services to us and increasingly to the already wealthy, a domestic Gestapo and the military in a variety of ways, why are we funding Israel’s attempt to enlarge itself by obliterating a country and its people?

— Sarah Shurtleff, Longmonth

Ignorance is a breeding ground for corruption

Donald Trump is ignorant. He is famous for trying to put a square peg into a round hole. Those who have been hired to assist him are dismissed as wrong.

Take, for instance, his DNI. She pointed out that Trump’s assessment about the threat of a weapon of mass destruction soon being in Iran’s arsenal was incorrect. She also said that his bombing mission to Iran fell short of its intended goal. Look up the definition of ignorance, and you will see it fits perfectly with this event. The net effect is that now both are ignorant.

As those who know are silenced by those who don’t know, corruption claims the victory.

— Bob Grimes, Windsor