Bus plan not implemented

I CANNOT allow GM Service’s assertion (Letters, June 16), to go unchallenged. The provision of separate buses for Palestinian workers entering Israel for work, proposed but not implemented, was intended as a security measure, in direct response to several terrorist attacks against the Jewish population of Israel and the measure was proposed solely in order to direct Palestinian buses through security checkpoints, but it was rejected to pre-empt the accusation of apartheid, such as implied in the author’s letter.

With the best of intent, I am sure, the author has assumed that because Israel is strong but the Palestinians weak, the Hamas narrative is to be uncritically accepted and its protagonists are to be supported and encouraged. That is no justification. “All-powerful” America was heavily defeated by the guerrilla Vietcong.

However, within the past few days a committee of top brass international military personnel returned the results of their investigation which demonstrated that Israel exceeded the highest possible standard of conduct in the war on Gaza, and that emplacement of weapons and rocket launchers from civilian establishments led to the disproportionate loss of lives on the Gazan side. Israel provided for the evacuation of Israeli homes; Hamas encouraged the opposite, to swell the number of casualties. M Green, 103 Ayr Road, Newton Mearns.