Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho issued a veiled swipe at Graeme Le Saux after insisting all of his players were happy to travel to Israel for tonight’s Champions League clash with Maccabi Tel Aviv, despite heightened security following the Paris terror attacks.

I take grave objection to the description of the Palestinian people put forward by Desmond Fitzgerald (Letters, October 2).

Wales are poised to end their 58-year wait to play at a major tournament after Gareth Bale’s late winner on a balmy night in Nicosia.

When the players of FC Haka of Finland walked off the pitch at Turner’s Cross in July 2008 following an entertaining 2-2 draw, few of the home fans could have predicted that it would be seven long years before the ground would hold another European club fixture.

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While everyone is entitled to hold their personal opinions, however misguided, it behoves them at least not to distort facts in order to support them.

I can sympathise with the sentiments of Isaac Barr, of Michigan, with regard to living in Haifa as he did in 1948 as a 14-year-old (Irish Examiner, Wednesday, September 10).

Regarding the article “We are washing our hands of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” (Victoria White, July 30) I want to tell you my personal history.

My column last week, urging Ireland to stand with the Palestinians, drew such a huge and often angry response that I re-read my history.

Rockets fired from Lebanon have struck Israel as long-range missile fire from Gaza continued against the country for a fourth day.

Israel’s population registry lists many “nationalities” and ethnicities, among them Jew, Arab, Druse and more. But one word is conspicuously absent from the list: Israeli.

Thousands of Israelis are crowding gas-mask distribution facilities, readying for a potential conflict with Syria, Israeli police say.

Israeli warplanes today struck a target south of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Iran says if it is attacked by Israel, it will annihilate Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Iran and Russia have joined the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in condemning a rare Israeli air strike on Syria.

When will the West hear what Palestinians say to each other in Arabic rather than the words aimed at the West’s ears, asks Boaz Modai

RELATIVES of Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks waged a charged debate yesterday over the planned release of militants this week in a deal to free an Israeli soldier held by Hamas for five years.

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals.

Israelis have begun gathering in the country’s three largest cities for what protesters predict will be the largest of months of demonstrations against the rising cost of living.

THE set designer of Riverdance is boycotting the show during its upcoming tour of Israel in an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Three people were killed today when a small plane crashed in Israel, rescue services said.

An inferno that has raged for four days in a northern Israeli forest is under control, fire chiefs said today.

Firefighters in Israel say they hope a wildfire which has killed 41 people will be brought under control later.

AROUND 40 people died yesterday when a bus burst into flames as it raced to an Israeli prison during a massive forest fire. The victims were mainly prison guards participating in the rescue mission, officials said. It was one of the deadliest accidents in the nation’s history.

The parents of an American protester crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip got their first chance today to hear from the man who drove the vehicle that killed her.

The protest ship seized by Israel in a deadly raid in May returned to Turkey today.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen today blamed the Israeli blockade of Gaza for a commando assault on a flotilla of aid ships which left at least 15 people dead and scores injured.

Israeli media has reported that one Irish person had been wounded on the attack on Gaza-bound aid ships by the Iraeli Navy today.

Israeli warships attacked at least one of the six ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists and aid for blockaded Gaza today, killing at least ten and wounding an unknown number of people on board, reports said.

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Belfast’s “peace walls” are getting an artistic facelift, it was revealed today.

Israeli soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian boy as a shield during the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, UN human rights experts said today.

Mahmoud Darwish, the world’s most recognised Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile and infighting, died today in Houston, Texas. He was 67.

THOUSANDS of mourners turned out for the burials of two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas, laying to rest the young men whose unknown fate had riveted the Jewish state for two years.

Thousands attended the burials today of the two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas.

NADAV COHEN (Letters, June 2) must be aware that Zionism began as a secular movement and is in fact strenuously resisted on religious grounds by increasingly vocal Orthodox Jewish scholars, such as Yakov Rabkin, whose book, A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, is most enlightening.

IN his feature article (May 19), Elias Khoury perpetuates many falsehoods about the history of Israel which I would like to challenge.

Israeli police divers found the bodies of two sailors missing in the Mediterranean Sea this morning, 12 hours after their cargo ship sank in a collision with a passenger liner.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing energised in his bitter battle with the Islamic Hamas, considered calling a new West Bank election to solidify his standing.