Boycott produce from Gaza

The article "World Bank: The Gazan economy is collapsing" (September 26), is accompanied by a recent photo of an Arab harvesting dates in the Gaza Strip.

Tens of thousands of dunams of Israeli agricultural produce have been destroyed by fires caused by arson balloons from the Gaza Strip.

We should not replace destroyed Israeli produce with comparable produce from Gaza. Any produce from Gaza should be identified and labeled.

Our supermarkets should not buy anything from Gaza. Our consumers should not buy anything from Gaza. It is better to do without than to buy from Gaza.

We need a citizens' drive to boycott Gazan produce. RONNIE STEKEL

Jerusalem

Regarding "7 Palestinians killed in Gaza riots" (September 30), we no longer have a deterrence to the constant riots along the security fence, arson balloons, kites with Molotov cocktails or IEDs burning thousands of dunams of agriculture and nature reserves.

Our military is only reacting tit for tat. According to recent reports, our government proposed 500 meters in the now-defunct third party negotiations with Hamas. This must now be enforced, the area to be cleared by using army's D9s, with non-lethal and lethal means used against terrorists launching terror balloons and kites day and night.

Until drastic counter-measures are introduced, there will be no end. In the latest so-called peaceful but actually violent demonstration, more than100 grenades and IEDs were thrown at our soldiers, destroying the security fence by terrorists taught from kindergarten to die as a martyr killing Israelis, blessed by their mothers parents knowing there will be monthly checks for life.

We citizens and soldiers of Israel will continue to suffer indefinitely without strong and effective deterrence. MURRAY JOSEPH Kiryat Motzkin

Considerable damage is being caused by the dispatch of arson kites and balloons with incendiary devices into Israel from the Gaza Strip. Although Israel has so far not retaliated in kind for these acts of war, there is a precedent for such retaliation.

Having lived as a child through Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg against Britain, I still remember my father risking his life as a member of a fire-watching team. They frequently had to clamber about on the roofs of the four-story houses in our street, extinguishing incendiary bombs dropped from German bombers.

In February 1945, the British and American air forces retaliated by dropping 3,900 tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on Dresden, Germany, in what came to be known as the Dresden firebombing.

I am sure that the IDF has the means to give the Gazans a taste of this fire-raising, which perhaps might curb their taste for such tactics. GERRY MYERS Beit Zayit