Dear Editor: Ed Kass’s ‘A Conversation we do not have, but need to’ (Column: Saving Israel from Herself, May 27, 2021) betrayed a shockingly low understanding of the constant existential threats Israel faces. In his blinkered views, Palestinians lack any agency whatsoever. Oh, “Hamas wants to destroy Israel”; “So does Hezbollah”; “Abbas and the current Palestinian leadership … refuse to make any compromises”. But, so what. Kass deeply imbibes malicious Palestinian propaganda, ranting about eastern Jerusalem Sheik Jarrah “evictions”. The heirs to those Jewish owned properties, from late 19th Century, were entitled to their return. Instead, in a 1982 Solomonic decision, an Israeli court allowed squatters to stay, on condition of paying rent, something the evictees have evaded for decades.