We need to cut through the rhetoric of the Israeli-Palestinian argument

Con Hayes’ defence of Palestinian policies (Letters, Jan 7) cannot go unchallenged.

It is one thing for people like Mr Hayes to wallow in the delusion that everything wrong in the Middle East, and for Palestinians in particular, is the fault of Israel but it’s quite another to pander to such delusions.

We have the ridiculous contradiction that Palestinian apologists want the UN to vote to recognise a Palestinian state but they don’t think Arabs should honour the same UN that already voted to recognise the Israeli state. They claim the IDF engaged in war crimes but using civilians as human shields, as Hamas do, is also a war crime? They make great statements about the human rights of Palestinians but are strangely silent on the fate of Palestinian women who are forced to live under Sharia Law.