Editorials

The 1970s gave us some ridiculous things, although some thought they were pretty cool back then — the fashions, the decor and this meme from the sappy movie, “Love Story”: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

In the aftermath of the Six Day War, Israel took control of the Jordan River Valley and built settlements there. The Jordan River was the favored entry point of Palestinian terrorists into Israel. The Jewish settlements there — literally on the West Bank of the Jordan River — protected Israel against Palestinian terrorism.

From the micro to the macro: I pray for my heightened focus on each and every word in our prayers and for health for our whole family — and for the excision of the hatred that besets our people and the end to weapons that threaten our people.

When is an apology an apology? When it’s made by fashion designer John Galliano. When is an apology not an apology? When it’s made by US Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed. He offers a non-apology apology.

“Hurt people hurt people.” This was the considered reaction of Abdul El-Sayed to the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield last March 14. A car rammed the temple. That it killed no one was a miracle, doubly so because it rammed past the preschool.

At age 99, Holocaust survivor Cantor Zachary Kutner led yizkor with the zest of his youth. He had survived seven selections at Auschwitz yet emerged with a contagious joie d’vivre.

For those who allege Israel is committing genocide, a Jewish state and Jews living in the Middle East is the original poison.

The colonialist claim against Israel would lead to the absurdity of Zohran Mamdani and his family needing to go back to Uganda and South Africa.

For Hamas, disarmament is a euphemism. If Hamas were interested in the welfare of Gaza, and the welfare of Gazans, it would have disarmed, by itself, long ago.

And you thought politics was expensive. Next time you read how much money it took for a political candidate to win a local race, keep in mind: It was only one race. No matter how expensive, the win doesn’t hold a candle to the New York Mets, circa 2026.