Letter to the editor: No-vote urged on resolutions

We urge voters in Vergennes and several other Vermont towns to reject well-meant but futile resolutions attacking Israel.

President Biden did right to commute the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners to life without parole.

We share Hal Cohen’s outrage at Hamas’s unspeakable recent murder of six Israeli hostages. No decent person could defend Hamas, which is, indeed, evil personified; but it is absolutely wrong to equate Hamas with all Palestinians or Gazans.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and several members of the House and Senate have announced that they will boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled address to Congress next month.

How can it be that after all these centuries of “progress,” we humans still try to resolve our differences by killing each other and destroying what we have labored to build?

Jamie McCallum is an ideal candidate for election to the Addison Central School District board.