Dear Brian,

The saying goes "There are none so blind as those who will not see" and your correspondent G. Allen must be one of the latter. He calls the Hamas regime in Gaza "terrorists" but the fact is they were democratically elected. He commends Israel for allowing 15,000 tons of aid to go through to Gaza each week to the thousands of beleagured Gazans still living in appalling conditions in tents. Why? Because Israel will not allow any building materials to go through as they (the Israelis) are apopletic with fear someone might use cement in weapons against them! Israel will not allow Palestinian farmers to sow and grow their annual olivel trees. burning them down as quickly as they are sown. Gazans and Palestinians cannot manufacture anything for export and so cannot earn a living and have to rely on aid.

G. Allan alleges there were weapons on the decks of the peace activists` boat Mavi Maramara - if the Israelis managed to fake pictures of weapons on the deck, they were probably those dropped by the Israeli commandos during their murderous rampage when they killed nine peace activists and injured about 30 others. The peace activists "weapons" were bits of wood and anything else they could lay their hands on to defend themselves against bullets. The UN has condemned Israel's attacks as "murder" but Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu accuses the UN of being "prejudiced",

President Obama has been trying to get the Palestinians and Israelis to sign a peace agreement. Palestine has stated all along, that they will only sign if Israel agrees not to build any more settlements on the West Bank but what does Israel do. As soon as the moratorium ended they have set about building over 1,000 more settlements. It is obvious Israel has absolutely no desire for peace but just wants to take over the whole of the West Bank and it is time people like G. Allen stopped being sucked in by Israeli propoganda.

Yours sincerely, C Thomson