Andrea Whitmore of Fairway, Kansas wrote to the New York Times regarding Israel on the May 14 letters page:

"Thanks for not holding back on concern that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may well be uncooperative.  Thanks also for standing up for American interest instead of Israel's.

"It's critical that we not let a nation that consistently defies our presidents and the State Department enmesh us in another war, and that our interest come ahead of any loyalty to Israel.

"Unfortunately, the American media in the past haven't leaned hard enough on Israel.  That has helped lead to entanglements we have now, and has allowed Israel to box itself into its current strangled (and strangling) situation.