Letter writer David Kahn (Dec. 21) complains about a specialty license plate inscribed “Florida Stands With Israel.”
He speculates that the license plate lacks sufficient buyers because “Israel, the victim, has become Israel, the aggressor,” and that unlike Ukraine, “they haven’t decimated the Gaza strip and tens of thousands of non-combatant women and children.”
Unfortunately, rebutting these beliefs with facts is useless in dealing with people who would demonize the state of Israel and its actions while holding it to standards not applied to any other nation.
Mr. Kahn supports the Ukrainians because they are “fighting for their lives and sovereignty.” Perhaps he is clueless that Israelis have been fighting for their lives and sovereignty for not just a few years, but for the entirety of their 77-year existence.
By the way, I was unaware of this tag.
I enthusiastically recommend its purchase and will do so right away!
Jonathan Rubin, Deerfield Beach
No end to School Board chaos
Here we go again. Another front-page article on the adventures of the Keystone Kops — I mean the Broward County School Board.
Seriously, if private enterprise conducted business like the school district staff does, they would be unemployed quickly.
It seems like they can’t do anything right, and members of the board are like ostriches with their heads in the sand, popping up only to complain how misinformed they are.
The bottom line: Until members of district senior management, beginning with chief operations officer Wanda Paul, are replaced by competent individuals, we will continue to see chaos unfold with no end in sight.
Wayne Zimmerman, Pembroke Pines
For a more civil society
I miss a civil society. People used to talk things out. Not anymore — things are blown up. The East Room of the White House was blown up before any debate or discussion of “the people’s house,” paid for with American tax dollars.
We have a Speaker of the House who doesn’t speak. He has to be informed on current events because he doesn’t seem to have the time to know what’s happening around him. He sent Congress home for half the session so there would be no debate over health care subsidies or the dreaded Epstein files.
We have a president and Defense secretary playing video games with boats at sea that they blow up because they say they can, whether they had drugs or not. Meanwhile, the president pardoned an ex-Honduran president, guilty of taking bribes from drug smugglers who brought 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., claiming the man shouldn’t have to serve that long a sentence. It makes no sense.
We need a more civil society.
Mark Walker, Boca Raton
What would you expect?
Why would we expect anything else out of Donald Trump’s mouth but meanness and hate? (“Trump’s vile words provde Reiner was right,” editorial, Dec. 20).
Expecting him to act presidential with a level of decorum is best forgotten when listening to him.
As my father would say, if you don’t have anything nice to say, close your mouth!
Karyn Rhodes Dornfield, Boca Raton
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