AT the age of 11, I went with my family to live in Israel.

IT wasn’t very long ago that Mary Harney was telling us to shop around.

ALMOST every day, virulently anti-semitic cartoons appear in the Arab press portraying Jews as dogs or pigs (which are lower than dirt in the Muslim outlook), or as serpents with a stranglehold over international finance or the media.

WITH regard to your editorial about the Russian school siege (Irish Examiner, Sept 2), while I agree that this kind of action is indeed vile, I would like to point out that it is most definitely not new.