North peace process has one major lesson for Israel

NADAV COHEN (Letters, February 1), in his riposte to your editorial (‘Aggression will not end this insanity’, January 22), states dismissively that only “some lessons can be learned from the success of the Northern peace process”.

I would argue there is one major message, and that is the recognition by the British government that one makes peace with one’s enemies and not one’s friends.

Negotiations in Northern Ireland were conducted with elected members of parties which were representing so-called ‘terrorists’.