Mubarak Awad and Israel

It’s just a shame how those terrible Palestinians are creating this (tourism) “crisis.” Maybe we better increase our $3.5 billion yearly aid to the Israeli victims.

In order to determine what amount should be given one might ask Dov S. Zakheim who, in his Times column “Uprising Poses Budgetary Calamity for Israeli Army” (Op-Ed Page, May 6), specified “U.S. funding” as “already minimal.”

TOM MORAN

Santa Monica