Israelis were right to come out to defend their border
WHY does no one ever ask what exactly would happen if those pumped-up, angry Palestinians actually did get through the fence border and into one of the Israeli communities which are close by.
Do they think they just want to talk? Would there be howls of outrage from the Palestinian lobby when Israeli civilians are murdered?
What is it that the anti-Israel lobby expects the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to do when the IDF know full well they can never take the chance of letting hordes of Palestinian men through?
Can it really be possible that the Palestinian parents who send their sons to face the IDF, in the full knowledge that the IDF will fire back when provoked, place such little value on their children’s lives? Is the ‘martyr pension’ they receive really worth it?
And what is it that has caused this rage? Is it the denial by Arab countries of full citizenship and rights to the people who they force to live in Palestinian refugee camps for decades?
Is it their anger that their Palestinian mothers, sisters and daughters are forced to live under Sharia Law? Are they angry there is no free press, no freedom of religion or that Palestinian leaders are endemically corrupt and steal so much of the foreign aid?
If the Palestinians can demand the ‘right of return’, it’s only logical that same right should extend to the descendants of Jewish families who were forced to flee Arab countries and lost their possessions.
Israel is a full member of the UN and its capital is stated as Jerusalem. Its parliament and government are in West Jerusalem. Yet Palestinian parents sent their children to their deaths because the US moved a brass plate from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The location of an office is apparently the root of this anger among Palestinians.
The Palestinians are in denial, because facing the truth would mean facing up to the role that Palestinians themselves played in the situation they now find themselves in. Denial is far easier. DESMOND FITZGERALD,
Canary Wharf, London.
Murder in Gaza
WHAT is happening in Gaza is total murder by Israeli armed forces with weapons supplied by the US.
Why does the world not bring sanctions against these aggressors right away who are murdering men, women and children who have a right to protest?
We must stand up and be counted and expel the Israel ambassador and let the world know we will not stand idly by while Palestinian people are slaughtered in their own land NOEL HARRINGTON,
Kinsale, Co. Cork.
Abortion debate
MINISTER Simon Harris says he looks forward to the pro-life campaign engaging in debate and standing over its claims.
Great! There have been several invitations extended to Mr Harris to put his money where his mouth is and name the place and time. So far, he’s declined.
We might be forgiven for thinking he is too busy with the cervical smear debacle but apparently he still has time to make public appearances to call for repeal.
NICK FOLLEY, Carrigaline, Co. Cork. …I’M so concerned by the national conversation about this referendum by what seems to be a total abdication of a duty of care by Yes campaign advocates.
Who among us can escape one of the most natural passages of life: caring for a family member with a terminal illness? How can we call nursing and nurturing our loved ones in the last moments of their lives torture? What kind of a person contemplates scheduling their loved one’s termination at their own convenience?
It’s all quite simple. Grown-ups care for children and the healthy care for the sick and dying.
Each and every family experiences loss, terrible loss. Look around you and take note. It’s part of life, we can’t avoid it, but we can take care of each other and help lighten the weight of the burdens we all must carry.
CLARE O’TOOLE, Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow.