Monstrous tactics

IT is obvious Fintan Lane of Anti-War Ireland is not flavour of the month with some of your letter writers who take umbrage whenever Israel is criticised.

Maybe they should read the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. On September 13, for example, the head of an Israeli rocket unit in Lebanon, referring to the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells, said: “What we did was insane and monstrous. We covered entire towns in cluster bombs.”

Also, soldiers in Israeli artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells, widely forbidden by international law.