New airport terminal doesn’t please everyone
Regarding Sunday’s editorial, “Orlando’s Terminal C is magnificent, getting better”:
Oh, please. Try the international arrival at Terminal C and pulling or pushing your carry-on luggage up the long trek to the checked bags area. After a 10+ hour day of flying (including an overnighter), folks were exhausted. I can’t imagine how parents with kids or folks who can’t walk that far do it.
We will avoid Terminal C. What a joke.
Nancy Rice Kissimmee
Why not try the train?
I took my maiden trip from South Florida to Orlando via Brightline train on Oct. 20 and it was a pleasure. No stress, no highway backups on I-4 or the turnpike, and a comfortable seat with food and drink delivered on a wheeled cart for a reasonable cost. Weather? Not an issue. Highway patrol? No concern even at 120 mph. Leg room and seat comfort exceed what an auto or airplane can offer. As I disembarked at the architecturally impressive Orlando station, my thoughts were why a Brightline type of rail transportation had to wait decades to become a reality. Then I remembered that Florida’s Legislature has had about as much foresight as a bat, always a day late and ultimately too many dollars short.
David Kahn Palm Beach County
Israel’s war on Hamas is justified
As with any war, the war in Gaza generates high emotion, but emotion should not substitute for fact. In his pro-Palestinian opinion piece in Sunday’s Sentinel (“Florida politicians should call for ceasefire in Israeli-Palestinian conflict”), the author has made an astonishing statement. He says: “Hamas is not in the wrong because of alleged violence against civilians, or even because they disregard international law. Hamas is in the wrong because they attacked Israelis.” What started this war?
There is no dispute that Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and left hundreds of Jews dead, including babies and the elderly. There is also no dispute that Hamas terrorists kidnapped over 250 civilians including children and the elderly. The writer implies that government support for Israel is the result of the pandering of officials to the Jewish population in South Florida. It’s the same old song with different packaging. The problem is the Jews and their control of government so let’s ignore the facts and blame the Jews.
Informed people of good will can disagree about Israel’s continued destruction of Gaza, but they cannot disagree about the legitimacy of its right to self-defense. Israel’s war with Hamas is result of its clearly visible terror and gross inhumanity. The first obligation of any government is to keep its citizens safe. Israel’s war on Hamas is clearly justified whatever the religion of Israel’s citizens.
Mark O. Cooper Altamonte Springs
Israel conflict shows divide with far-left critics
The writers of “Funding military assistance to Israel is a mistake” (Oct. 29) demonstrate why so many moderates are losing faith in the far left. The authors twice mention the strike on the hospital as if Hamas isn’t just as likely the author of that slaughter. They are seemingly unaware that Palestinian political leaders have turned down the best options for peace the past 20 years. Finally, they fail to note that it is Hamas and Iran, not Israel, that call for an actual genocide. Netanyahu and other far-right Israeli politicians are far from innocent in this conflict, but the far left in the West has also demonstrated its own racist tendencies in its reaction to Israel. I for one, a moderate Republican quite often at odds with the president’s policies as well as those of Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, finally find Joe Biden a compelling leader with his support of Israel’s right to defend itself in the face of a homicidal enemy focused the genocide of Jews and Israelites.
Thank you, President Biden. You may have won my vote in 2024. Please ignore the racist voices on your far left.
Rev. Jack Jackson Windermere
