How Zohran Mamdani can succeed as mayor<\/a>,\u201d op-ed, Dec. 28). As Daniel Pearl\u2019s father Judea Pearl, the chancellor\u2019s professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA and director of the UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory, has described: \u201cZionophobia is the absolute denial of Israel\u2019s right to exist.\u201d Zionophobic leopards do not change their spots. It is naive and dangerously myopic to think so. Richard Sherman<\/p>\nCheers to all<\/p>\n
East Elmhurst: Happy New Year to all of us in the U.S.A. Love one another, share and respect each other. Gerson Fernandes<\/p>\n
Return to traditionalism<\/p>\n
Forest Hills: My wish for the new year is that people who think they are conservative actually know what it means \u2014 because they are not. As per Barry Goldwater, \u201cGovernment does not belong in your doctor\u2019s office or your bedroom.\u201d I think he also spoke about actually conserving resources, which produces steady markets, but what do I know \u2014 I might be some kind of lefty as per the N.Y. Post. One more thing: It was Goldwater, that nasty conservative, who convinced Richard Nixon to resign for the good of the country. What would he do with President Trump? Stew Frimer<\/p>\n
Added burden<\/p>\n
Yonkers: Adding to Voicer Thomas Bell\u2019s comments, send a few million immigrants up there to those Nordic countries and see how their medical benefits and economy works out. John Hodio<\/p>\n
Hunting the innocent<\/p>\n
Jackson Heights: We are not safer when an immigrant father is picked up while reporting to federal authorities as required, when some mere child is taken to be deported, or when desperate essential laborers are rounded up at some menial job site. Yes, arrest the murderers, drug lords and gang members, thieves and smugglers. Why is our tax money wasted on preying on workers in construction, agriculture, health care and grocery stores? Must ICE agents demean themselves and our government that assigns them to lurk outside of clinics, schools, churches, federal check-in offices, etc.? We taxpayers have to demand a more intelligent, effective and decent approach to the immigration \u201cproblem.\u201d James V. Rescigna<\/p>\n
Similar satire<\/p>\n
Manhattan: Voicer Steven M. Stein asks, \u201cHow many others have the guts to do what Jimmy Kimmel does nightly?\u201d Stephen Colbert does. Raymond McEaddy<\/p>\n
Contempt by Congress<\/p>\n
Amityville, L.I.: What the hell is happening in America today when Congress is more interested in the Epstein files than its populace in terms of food, shelter and medical stability? The members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are all aiders and abetters of the sitting president. It is an abomination, a sin and a shame before God that all these illegal actions are being allowed to occur (too many to name in this space). They all must be very proud of themselves. The entire world is laughing at us. Barbara Reynolds<\/p>\n
Short-term security<\/p>\n
Beechhurst: During their infamous Feb. 28 dust-up meeting at the White House, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy\u2019s perfectly reasonable request for a U.S. security guarantee was scoffed at by the president and his attack-dog veep. But now comes the amicable Mar-a-Lago meeting wherein Trump has seemingly seen the light by proffering a 15-year security guarantee (way below Zelenskyy\u2019s ask for a 50-year guarantee, I might add) to protect Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty. My guess is that 47 thinks Czar Putin will take that impropriety as a pro forma guarantee because the Russian land grab he may pitch to Ukraine\u2019s legislature (the Verkhovna Rada) will light up the latter\u2019s eyes. In any case, it\u2019s a real possibility that \u201cWho lost Ukraine?\u201d could become a question that dogs DJT\u2019s second-term foreign policy legacy. James Hyland <\/p>\n
Lashing out \u2014 of fear<\/p>\n
Hamilton Square, N.J.: An injured animal becomes more dangerous when cornered and scared. Trump has become more irrational as he realizes that his power is waning and his MAGA minions are deserting. Is a war with Venezuela not a big enough red flag? If he can declare that we are at war (even though only Congress can do that), he will deny the citizens an election. Beware the rabid dog. Eileen Johnson<\/p>\n
He\u2019s our guy<\/p>\n
New Rochelle, N.Y.: OK, you idiots who think you can say anything about my president who won in a landslide \u2014 he has done more in one year than we ever expected. Think and cry about what America would be like if the dumb lady was elected! Sleep well tonight, Donnie has our back. Dom Mastropolo<\/p>\n
Historical preservation<\/p>\n
New Rochelle, N.Y.: I sincerely hope the National Archives has the Declaration of Independence well secured before another signature is added above that of John Hancock. Richard Rodrigue<\/p>\n
Follow the money<\/p>\n
Brielle, N.J.: If you want to deal with the gun violence in the U.S., find those in Congress who take contributions from the NRA and do not vote for them. Marion K. Reilly<\/p>\n
Ruined roster<\/p>\n
Saddle Brook, N.J.: Brandon Nimmo, Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonso \u2014 gone. Me too. A Mets fan since day one \u2014 over. Good luck, Mets. Who\u2019s next? M.J. Crandall<\/p>\n
Blew it big-time<\/p>\n
Bayonne: I have been a Mets fan since the beginning. I have seen a lot of bonehead plays over the years, but what happened last month was the biggest bonehead play of all time. You let Nimmo get traded, you let Diaz walk and then you let your franchise player walk. What a shame. Alonso is a future Hall of Famer. You should have paid him. Robert Manning<\/p>\n
Nowhere to sit<\/p>\n
Brooklyn: Long Island has better bus shelters than NYC. Recently, I was in Great Neck and I saw a bus shelter with a bench that can seat up to five or six people. Yet, here in NYC, benches at bus shelters can seat no more than three. We need better bus shelters in our city. We also need many more of them, especially where there are no subway trains or other means of transportation. Not everyone in NYC can afford a car service or taxi. Victor Malyar<\/p>\n
A pale deer<\/p>\n
Calverton, L.I.: On Tuesday, a white deer with brown patches, also known as a piebald deer, was spotted here. Such sightings are extremely rare \u2014 one in 30,000 deer are born with albinism, but white deer can also be piebald. Logan Kramer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deadly feud that started with a neglected dog Forked River, N.J.: A woman, Shashamanie Thompson, in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,264,63,299,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-87162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}