ALI HALIMEH’s article (Sanctions may be the only way to stop Israel, the Irish Examiner, October 20) is riddled with untruths.

The editor of an Irish language newspaper based in Belfast today denied that one of its correspondents arrested on suspicion of training Palestinian militants in bomb-making techniques was a terrorist.

PALESTINIAN terrorist organisations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad are already observing an “undeclared ceasefire”, according to the Palestinian Delegate General to Ireland, Ali