To aim with flame – who’s to blame?

I was incensed by the content of “To put out the fires of hatred, Israel must get tough on pyromaniacs.”

If Sir Mick Davis wants to publicly castigate Israel’s new government and its new PM, Naftali Bennett, I would advise him to make aliyah as soon as possible. Only then will he be in a position to criticize to his heart’s content, as many Israeli citizens do.

If he wants to indulge in criticism whilst living in the UK, he could start by using his position as former CEO of the Conservative Party to publicly castigate the British PM and his party for their total failure to “call out and face down the extremist, antisemitic hatred that so often comes wrapped in a Palestinian flag” that is at the present time so violently infecting public discourse in England.

ROCHELLE VEEDER

Netanya

Sir Mick Davis obviously didn’t take part in the march, which was relatively quiet apart from a very few catcalls venting frustration. On the whole it was a quiet and orderly march.

Stones were thrown – but not by the flag marching people.

I fully reserve my right in my country to walk or march or decorate my balcony with my flag and no amount of saber-rattling or threats will stop me from doing so.

FREYA BINENFELD

Petah Tikva

Yes, Israel must get tough on the pyromaniacs – but who are they? They’re the ones sending incendiary/ arson balloons from Gaza to ignite fires in forests, fields and homes across southern Israel.

How dare Mick Davis pervert truth by instead using that inflammatory word to describe peaceful participants in a traditional annual march!

AMIT FUERST Rishon Lezion

Mick Davis’s remarks are not well taken. He tepidly notes that the Flag March’s origins of celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, and the restoration of Jewish rights to live and pray in our eternal capital are “worthy causes.”

I use the word “tepidly” because these “worthy causes” are not enough for Davis to justify the continuation of the Flag March. In what can only be described as a post-Zionist diatribe, he asserts that “in a contemporary setting” the sole purpose of these marches appears to be to “antagonize, provoke and humiliate the city’s Palestinian residents.”

To Davis, the passionately nationalistic young people my wife and I joined in the March this past Tuesday are nothing more than “pyromaniacs,” “racist hooligans” and “extremists.”

At a time when waving and displaying the Israeli flag, wearing a uniform bearing an Israeli flag, and singing the Israeli national anthem are all under assault, these young Zionists are an inspiration and give me hope for the future.

GEORGE ROOKS

Ashdod