In response to "J Street U?opens doors for Israel conversation"?(Forum, Oct. 6): Mr. Sherer suggests a "brand of Zionism, which advocates an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and subsequent creation of two states for two peoples. It holds that the eventual boundaries of the state of Israel must respect the Green Line (Israel's pre-1967 borders) and that both Israelis and Palestinians, as well as the Jews, Muslims and Christians among them must enjoy equal access to the holy city of Jerusalem." May I suggest that this is not quite Zionism but a personal belief system based on a political orientation that is far left of center. I hasten to add that it is legitimate to express such views, but it would seem to be a precarious position. Take the last point: Under no other control in the past 1800 years has there been more equal access to Jerusalem, so much so that Jews are the only ones permanently banned from praying at the site they consider their holiest. How's that for backbending for peace?

Moreover, the Green Line was never Israel's border but a cease-fire line that had no international recognition. If we're adjusting lines on the map, and Sherer supports territorial compromise, what territory will the Arabs yield to Israel for all its aggressive terror in the 1950s (from "militant" refugees acting as fedayeen before the Fatah took control) and of the Fatah which began operations in 1965, incidentally, two years before the Six-Day War when Israel assumed administration of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, areas which international law had decreed to be Jewish land back in 1922.

One last issue: the two states for two peoples? Why are the so-called "Palestinians" a different people from the Jordanians or vice versa? Both live in the area of the former Palestine Mandate. Why are there to be two Arab states in the former Mandate territory (although it seems there may be a third one, Hamastan, in Gaza) both uni-ethnic in which no Jews can live but there can only be one Jewish state which must share itself with a 20-percent Arab minority? Cannot a 20-percent Jewish minority live in the area of the Palestine Authority? Why must there be an ethnic cleansing of Jews, especially after the last one in 2005 from Gaza proved a disaster?

-Yisrael Medad

Shiloh, Israel