Living and working in the ‘real’ Israel

I DO not know which Middle East and which Israel Michael A Moriarty (March 14) spent his 32 years in.

However, the Israel he describes is not the Israel which exists as I look out of my window here at the Mediterranean Sea and can see and hear Arab and Jewish builders working together on an adjoining site.

There is a building boom here and in all areas of “Israel/Palestine” everyone is allowed to build except for Jewish residents of the disputed territories — because of the USA-imposed building ban on Jewish homes. Is this the 20% deprived citizens he is writing about?