Letters to the Editor

Published 1:30 am Friday, June 5, 2026

CUBA

When will Trump be held accountable?

Now that Raul Castro has been charged with the murder of four people in 1996, when will Donald Trump be charged with the killing of almost 200 people off the coast of Venezuela?

Katherine Butler

Shoreline

IRAN WAR

Trump is fulfilling God’s plan

It seems quite plain and evident to me (and to all Bible readers) that our Lord God has raised up Trump for only one reason. That is to secure Israel from future Iranian nukes. God will move Earth and all else to get the job completed. Iran has already proved that they can strike their missiles anywhere they wish in Israel. If they need info on the bomb, their confederate Putin will supply.

Understand that all Israel are God’s chosen people. As in Biblical times (Hagar the mother of Ishmael) despised Abraham’s wife Sarai, cuz Hagar was first. So it is now that Ishmael’s descendants the Arabs and the Persians despise the descendants of Isaac, the 2nd son of Abraham. The Father of the Jews. The Arabs and the Persians got the sand, oil and 3 score years and ten. The Jews get eternal life.

As much as I loathe and despise Trump, I hold my nose and impatience away from him, so he can fullfill God’s plan.

Dick Dildine

Everett

PROJECT OLYMPIA

Stop Amazon from growing in Arlington

I am writing in regards to the news of Amazon expanding their campus in Arlington. I think it would be a terrible mistake to allow this to happen. Arlington is a remnant of what small towns used to be in our country, a main street populated with small, independently owned businesses, supported and loved by the people who frequent them. Small businesses like these were once part of the fabric of this country, a way for people to make money for their families doing something they love while bringing variety and value to the communities they call home.

Amazon, on the other hand, operates in a manner designed to make it impossible for small, independently owned businesses to continue to exist. The people in Arlington, myself included, should advocate for the things we care about, the ability of our friends and neighbors to continue doing the things they love in a way that benefits us all. Ceding ever more of our land, our water, and our electricity to a company that only exists to make its founder even more billions of dollars, does not benefit Arlington.

I hope our council and mayor will show that they share in our priorities and deny Amazon the ability to cause even more damage than it already has.

Ben Corey

Arlington

MUKILTEO COUNCIL

Mukilteo Council Makes An Excellent Choice.

At their May 18th city council meeting they chose Ilona Van Duser as our new council member. She is replacing council member Mike Dixon whose term expires in 2027. He left citing professional and family commitments.

Ilona will represent our city with integrity, honesty and with a measure of compassion. The citizens will know how she arrives at decisions affecting them. If she cannot share information about the policies that concern them, she will explain why, whenever that is possible.

Her most positive assets are her keen listening skills. She will hear you out. She may not come to the same conclusion that you do.

But she will listen to your side of an issue.

2027 is going to come way to soon, unless of course, she decides to be on the ballot.

Elaine Knapp

Mukilteo