Israel should worry

If I were an Israeli, I would be concerned with the direction of the president’s Mideast foreign policy direction.

In 1938, Neville Chamberlain went to meet Adolf Hitler to discuss the Sudetenland situation in Czechoslovakia. Hitler wanted a piece of Czechoslovakia to be ceded to Germany because of the large majority of ethnic Germans living there and being supposedly “mistreated” by the Czechs. Chamberlain, not wanting to antagonize Hitler, signed over the Sudetenland and declared “peace in our time.”

If Hitler would have been stopped then, millions of lives could have been spared, including 6 million Jews. Today, Israel is being pressured to cede more land to a group of terrorists who don’t even recognize its right to exist. Our president is strong-arming Israel to accept this, as his basis for “peace in today’s time.” He even stated that Iran should be allowed to develop nuclear power for “peaceful purposes.” If you believe that, I have a “peaceful purposes plant in North Korea” to sell you. I know that our president wants to please everyone, but for the sake of 6 more million Israelis, I hope he is not the next Neville Chamberlain, the great appeaser.

Steve Hintyesz

Spokane Valley