Pitts hits the nail on the head

Thank you Leonard Pitts Jr. for your insightful column, “Thomas doesn’t get a free pass for her offensive remarks” [Opinion, June 13].

Helen Thomas’s anti-Jewish, anti-Israel remarks on May 27, at a White House event in celebration of Jewish American month, crossed the line of decent journalism. Her bigoted remarks were hurtful and insensitive.

Thomas has been around long enough to know that her remarks were wrong and unacceptable to many fair-minded people.

Pitts rightly stated that bigotry is a cancer on the human spirit that should not be tolerated. The spirit of diversity demands no less.

— Josh Basson, Seattle

Pitts hits his thumb

Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column on Helen Thomas was wrong. Thomas was right on target.

Despite the recognition of Israel by the United Nations and United States, there is no valid reason why the Palestinians should have had to pay the price for Westerners sympathy for the Holocaust or other Jewish problems in Europe.

The claim that “God promised them the land” is bogus. There is no proof God exists and certainly, if a God does exist, no proof He, She or It made such a promise to the Jews.

I want my government respected for justice, not hated for supporting Israeli tyranny.

— Spencer M. Higley, Edmonds