When Commandant (retired) Greenway criticises me for being ‘misleading and incorrect’ in my analysis of the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem (Letters, December 2), it is on the basis that Yoram Cohen, head of Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, told the Knesset these were individual acts ‘and Abbas and the PA were opposed’.

Dr. Kevin McCarthy’s letter (Irish Examiner, November 24) makes for sad reading. 

Sailors from the United States Navy may board thousands of commercial ships in international waters to search for weapons of mass destruction, under a landmark pact reached this week between the US and Liberia, the world’s No 2 shipping registry.