Letters to the editor: US must rethink policy on two-state solution

US must rethink policy on two-state solution

To the editor:

“The Question of Palestine” is the subject of a United Nations document which very briefly covers the period between 1917 and 2023.

Many people have thought long and hard about how to bring peace to the region, but I am not one of those people. Instead, I have read the aforementioned document and looked at a map of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

For several decades, the official policy of the United States has been to advance a two-state solution, a nation of Israel and a nation of Palestinians. The leaders of Israel have been adamantly opposed to any two-state solution.

The actions of the state of Israel point towards its desire to annex the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into Israel and leave the Palestinians with no territory to call their own.

The two-state solution, the official policy of the United States, has failed and is bound to continue to fail as long as at least one of the states, Israel, refuses to consider it.

It is way past time for the United States to rethink the official policy on this issue.

Daniel Moeller

Rohrersville

Trump's use of Bible shows he's a fake Christian and a fraud

To the editor:

Hey Bible salesman, you never attend church, you don’t know a single bible verse, and you don’t know any of the words of the Lord’s Prayer either. That’s because you’re a fake Christian and a fraud.

“It is a bankrupt Christianity that sees a demagogue co-opting our faith and even our holy scriptures for the sake of his own pursuit of power and praise him for it rather than insist that we refuse to allow our sacred faith and scriptures to become a mouthpiece for an empire,” said Pastor Benjamin Cremer.

Jason Cornwall, a pastor from South Carolina said that Trump’s Bible endorsement was a violation of one of the Ten Commandments of the Hebrew Testament that forbids taking God’s name in vain. Historian and author Jamarcus Tisby says the project echoes the values of Christian nationalism — the idea that America was founded as a Christian nation and the government should work to sanction Christianity on a national scale.

The tenets of Christian nationalism are historically tied to prejudice, nativism and white supremacy. “There’s a very long tradition of what is included and what is not included in the Bible,“ Tisby said.

“What has caused outrage with this Bible is that it includes the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and even the lyrics to a Lee Greenwood song. So it’s adding to the Bible, and it’s adding specific political documents to the Bible that completely erase the separation of church and state.”

Patricia Taylor

Williamsport

Cultivated-meat research deserves federal funding

To the editor:With avian flu spreading to humans, our political leaders should support increased public funding for cultivated-meat research.

For those who aren’t familiar with the term, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. By removing livestock from the process, we can lower the risk of zoonotic pandemics.Though the private sector has made admirable progress in developing the field of cellular agriculture, further government investment is needed to overcome technological hurdles. The most significant of these is cultivated meat is currently too expensive to mass produce. Our leaders can help fix this with money for research.Jon HochschartnerGranby, Conn

Herald-Mail raised subscription fee with no notice

To the editor:

Once again, the Herald-Mail has raised the monthly subscription fee without notifying people ahead of time.

This fee is now more than what I pay for the Washington Post, LA Times and NY Times — combined.

I do not think the Herald-Mail is worth it.

Cynthia J. Shank

Hagerstown

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Mail: Herald-Mail letters to the editor for Sunday, April 14