Healing knowledgeSir, – I am gratified and amazed that Ms. Montagu (“In my own write,” October 6) wrote about her friend with a little-understood chronic disorder such as fibromyalgia. I had suffered from it for years and was told it was all in my head! Fortunately, I found two doctors who diagnosed me correctly, but it’s only in the last year that medication was formulated to alleviate most if not all of the symptoms. It’s relatively new here but well known in America; it is called “Lyrica.”I found physical therapy and sometimes a course of hydrotherapy extremely helpful.And yes, stress reduction is very helpful as well.Thank you, July Montagu, for making public a problem seldom discussed or understood.A. WEINBERGRehovotLaughter painsSir, – Your half-page tribute to the great Norman Wisdom (“Comic legend Sir Norman Wisdom dies aged 95,” October 6) tells its own story.This comic genius had my entire family in pain from excessive laughter on numerous occasions. (There is no better medicine). There is only one other to match him – Jerry Lewis.He rose from poverty to reach the heights with good old-fashioned, clean fun.God bless you, Mr. Wisdom.MARTIN LEWISHod HasharonDriving in cloud cuckoo-landSir, – Why cannot the powers that be come down from their ivory towers and save lives? Ron Friedman reports that “researchers at the Israel Police Traffic Division together with a group of psychology students from Rupin College are conducting a study on the psychology of drivers in an effort to create a tool that will help traffic officers identify dangerous motorists” (“Artificial intelligence could be new weapon to counter road deaths,” January 22).I must be living in cloud cuckoo-land.Let the movers and shakers of the traffic division travel from Netanya to Caesarea at 8 a.m. and return at 1 p.m.and see the thousands of buses, tankers, trucks and cars traveling this route and on to Haifa, all adept at dangerous driving! Why is there never, ever a vehicle pulled up for speeding? It is a disgrace to say that if you do find one vehicle keeping to the speed limit, that driver feels like a freak. Road signs instructing “Slow down to 70” are ignored.A fortune in money would be raised if only the speedsters were punished! How about impounding the vehicles for a week? Solve the problem with a simple solution before going all scientific and sophisticated. It is not rocket-science, after all, to stop speeding and keep death off the roads.ALAN ZULMANNetanyaNot prepared for peaceSir, – Khaled Abu Toameh reports that “Abbas seeks Arab support to stop talks unless Israel renews moratorium” (October 5).However, the most important item of concern in his article – hidden toward the end – is that a recent poll shows that more than half of the Arabs both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria said that they supported Hamas’s recent terror attack near Hebron which resulted in the murder of four Israelis.The fact that more than 50 percent of the general population of our so-called “peace partners” condone terrorism proves that it is irrelevant whether talks continue or not.In reality, the majority of Arabs are not prepared for peace, but still prefer a Middle East free of Jews.JOSH HASTENElazar
October 7: Apologies and insults
The rabbis’ humble attitude to our enemies was received with what I would call a gross insult by accepting the gift in the name of terrorists who have murdered Israelis.
Healing knowledgeSir, – I am gratified and amazed that Ms. Montagu (“In my own write,” October 6) wrote about her friend with a little-understood chronic disorder such as fibromyalgia. I had suffered from it for years and was told it was all in my head! Fortunately, I found two doctors who diagnosed me correctly, but it’s only in the last year that medication was formulated to alleviate most if not all of the symptoms. It’s relatively new here but well known in America; it is called “Lyrica.”I found physical therapy and sometimes a course of hydrotherapy extremely helpful.And yes, stress reduction is very helpful as well.Thank you, July Montagu, for making public a problem seldom discussed or understood.A. WEINBERGRehovotLaughter painsSir, – Your half-page tribute to the great Norman Wisdom (“Comic legend Sir Norman Wisdom dies aged 95,” October 6) tells its own story.This comic genius had my entire family in pain from excessive laughter on numerous occasions. (There is no better medicine). There is only one other to match him – Jerry Lewis.He rose from poverty to reach the heights with good old-fashioned, clean fun.God bless you, Mr. Wisdom.MARTIN LEWISHod HasharonDriving in cloud cuckoo-landSir, – Why cannot the powers that be come down from their ivory towers and save lives? Ron Friedman reports that “researchers at the Israel Police Traffic Division together with a group of psychology students from Rupin College are conducting a study on the psychology of drivers in an effort to create a tool that will help traffic officers identify dangerous motorists” (“Artificial intelligence could be new weapon to counter road deaths,” January 22).I must be living in cloud cuckoo-land.Let the movers and shakers of the traffic division travel from Netanya to Caesarea at 8 a.m. and return at 1 p.m.and see the thousands of buses, tankers, trucks and cars traveling this route and on to Haifa, all adept at dangerous driving! Why is there never, ever a vehicle pulled up for speeding? It is a disgrace to say that if you do find one vehicle keeping to the speed limit, that driver feels like a freak. Road signs instructing “Slow down to 70” are ignored.A fortune in money would be raised if only the speedsters were punished! How about impounding the vehicles for a week? Solve the problem with a simple solution before going all scientific and sophisticated. It is not rocket-science, after all, to stop speeding and keep death off the roads.ALAN ZULMANNetanyaNot prepared for peaceSir, – Khaled Abu Toameh reports that “Abbas seeks Arab support to stop talks unless Israel renews moratorium” (October 5).However, the most important item of concern in his article – hidden toward the end – is that a recent poll shows that more than half of the Arabs both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria said that they supported Hamas’s recent terror attack near Hebron which resulted in the murder of four Israelis.The fact that more than 50 percent of the general population of our so-called “peace partners” condone terrorism proves that it is irrelevant whether talks continue or not.In reality, the majority of Arabs are not prepared for peace, but still prefer a Middle East free of Jews.JOSH HASTENElazar