Israel at sixty

Both Jeff Jacoby and Yousef Manayyer’s pieces (Israel at sixty, May 11) make the case for truly disposed peoples. But how telling is their tone and emphasis. Manayyer more than once acknowledges the horrors inflicted on the Jews and calls for a compromise. Jacoby, on the other hand, thumps his bible and brags of the Jewish “miracle.” There is ample reference to why we Jews wanted that homeland but no mention of how we went about getting it. Or what we have done to keep it ethnically pure. The moral implication of Jacoby’s position is that might makes right. I’m embarrassed by him.