Sir, - Can Israel afford to let world opinion dictate its foreign or domestic policy? Hardly. Because the world is not an honest broker.
Israel survives because of its own fighting qualities, its memory of the attempted genocide of world Jewry in the Holocaust, and its support from a few real friends, the Americans being the prime example.
Is it really only three score years ago that we witnessed the systematic attempt to wipe every trace of Jewishness from the face of the earth? Are we now going to demand that a Trojan Horse comprising Hamas warriors, Indonesian fundamentalists hell-bent on holy war, or Iraqi rocket-power be allowed to finish the job that Western Europe couldn't?
Those who thinks that security is an optional extra for Israel are deluded. How many times can they afford to get it wrong?
How many times can we afford to get it wrong ? Jew-bashing by any other name would hardly smell so sweet. Yours, etc.,
Richard Dowling, Mountrath, Co Laois.