Re: Israel really is true democracy (‘The Weekend Sun, March 27').

T Beswick's Facts and figures straight out of a ‘Love Israel Manual' do not tell the truth.
Israel is a taken land, taken by force and its former occupants trashed, threatened and imprisoned, called terrorists and branded by the West with no rights that come close to what we are used to.

I find it strange that a people voted for a terrorist rather than their Jewish King, a people that lived horror during the World War II, a religious fanatical group, the only true ‘Gods Children' chosen by God himself to live in the land of milk and honey, could be so calculated, un-democratic, Nazified and uncaring to the original landlords.

What is worse is the fact that a so-called Democratic West has supported the Israeli thuggery to the point of questioning the whole democratic theory within our society.
We live in a world powered by a man-made object, money.

It controls our everyday functions - and the more you have the more power, the more weapons, the bigger the army and so on.

The Jews fought the Roman invaders as the Palestinians are fighting the Jewish onslaught.

No democracy there, just greed and power.

Finally, this subject can be very sensitive to some, especially anything anti-Jewish and
the powers to be can sensor, trial and convict.

Comments and ideas that go against what they want you to believe have been dangerous to the wellbeing of those who voice such ideas, that my friends is you - democracy.

R Stewart, Te Puke.