I read with great interest much of your recent coverage from Israel, including the reporting from Binny Hahn, the emergency room physician working at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon (“Wheels Up Tomorrow,” December 14, 2023).

Dr. Hahn wrote about not just encountering the shrapnel wounds of Israeli soldiers, but the nontraditional casualties, like tending to a soldier who sustained wounds from friendly fire, and caring for a Palestinian woman whose arm was mauled after she was thrown in front of a military canine by a Hamas terrorist.

Now, compare those stories by Dr. Hahn with a column at the end of your paper by a real estate mortgage banker, who prefaced his remarks in an article entitled “Caring for Our Elders” by commenting off-the-cuff that he was “pained that we have animals that appear like human beings” and “that we don’t have a final solution to get rid of them and the ignorance they spew.” These are terms that were common among Jewish enemies 85 years ago.

I hope that in the future, you take much better care to disallow that sort of remark, whether it comes from people who may work in the Israeli battlefield, or those back in America who are out of the bulk of danger.

Harley Schnall

White Plains