HENRY GUTERMAN (Irish Examiner letters, August 18) claims my recent letter on the Israeli mass murder of Lebanese civilians contained errors of fact (Irish Examiner, August 15).

FINTAN LANE tries to attack Israel, this time from a different angle (Irish Examiner letters, August 15).

FINTAN LANE (Irish Examiner letters, August 30) accuses me of being utterly incorrect in my assertion (Irish Examiner letters, August 18) that the area known as Shebaa Farms is generally considered to be a part of Syria. He also claims it is widely accepted to be part of Lebanon.

ISRAEL threatened Syria yesterday after Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon fired anti-aircraft shells that killed an Israeli teenager on Israel’s northern border, but said it hoped to defuse tension through diplomacy.