Alternative opinions needed

I would like to thank Harold Sader and Sandra Levin for their comments on the “special report” on President Obama published in the Aug. 2  issue of The Jewish Chronicle on behalf of the Kansas Heartland Chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition. It would behoove this newspaper not to pander to Republican demagoguery or at the very least publish a corresponding article stating an alternative opinion whenever the newspaper engages in election politics. For the record, I will be voting for President Obama.

American foreign policy is no different today than it has been post the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel recaptured, by a war it did not choose, Judea and Samaria. I would like to remind my Republican soul-mates that in the waning days of the Clinton administration, Israel was prepared to abandon most of our ancestral home land, to include dividing our capital, Jerusalem, for the sake of peace. Only the foolishness of what is now referred to as “Palestinians” stopped this from occurring. Lest we forget, the majority of us approved of this plan (yes, we were holding our noses) in the name of peace. The fact remains that whatever cold peace occurs between Israel and her hostile neighbors, that peace will resemble, in some fashion, the plan that was proposed by then President Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barack.

There are many other issues that need to be examined in regards to the upcoming presidential election, the economy and healthcare   for all being two of them. Hopefully, The Jewish Chronicle will publish alternative opinions side by side with those promulgated by the local chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Charles Megerman
Overland Park, Kan.

Stick with Obama

So Mitt Romney went overseas for a week and visited three countries. Now he calls himself a statesman. What a fraud and what a joke.
Let us be careful who we vote for in the next election. We don’t want the ultra right wingers heavily financed by the Koch brothers to run our country.
As for me I’m sticking with Obama.

Gloria Schlossenberg
Overland Park, Kan.