It is telling that on these letters pages Israel’s advocates regularly mirror and thereby demonstrate exactly what is wrong with the actions of that state.

Israeli soldiers have killed two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old, in further clashes as a search for three Israeli teenagers feared abducted in the West Bank entered its second week.

Israeli forces are on high alert ahead of expected mass demonstrations as Palestinians prepared for a day of marches throughout the region.

A BOMB exploded between two Israeli army checkpoints outside Jerusalem yesterday, killing two Palestinians and wounding 19 people in the first such attack for six months.

Israeli forces were still surrounding Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and Yasser Arafat’s office in Ramallah today despite Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying the West Bank military assault was virtually over.