Re: R Stewart's ‘Money makes the world spin' (The Weekend Sun, April 2).

Don't know what history book R Stewart's been reading but I was under the impression the state of Israel was created by the United Nations in 1947 and it was immediately attacked by all of it's Arab neighbours.

The Israelis, who are a hodgepodge of different nationalities but mainly one religion, defeated the invading Arab armies to create the strong Israeli state we have today.

Contrary to popular belief the resident Arabs were not expelled from Israel but cajoled to leave by the Arab states which promptly dumped them, so creating the Palestinian refugee problem.

In fact their are a million Arabs who chose to stay in Israel and today enjoy full voting rights. As for today's situation; as long as Hamas keeps firing rockets into Israel their is no alternative but to go into Gaza to try and stop them.

Does Hamas really care about all the innocent civilians killed on each side of the border? Hell no! Damn good publicity for them with their photographs of children being killed and injured.

What about the United Nations sorting it out - as the Tui add says: ‘Yea right'.

B Martin, Katikati.