Iran has threatened to wipe Israel from the map

Yesterday’s Irish Examiner editorial, ‘A Sobering Lesson for Israel’, was one of the most unbalanced and ill-informed commentaries I have read. You blame Israel for alienating its allies, but give no sensible explanation of why.

Israel has been attacked illegally by major armed forces and militias, and been forced to fight defensive wars, no fewer than eight times. It has lost many thousands of its civilian population to 66 years of terrorist attacks and suicide bombings, it has given up land for peace (the Sinai Peninsula, southern Lebanon, Gaza), and it has made a dozen peace offers with outstanding concessions, all of which would have ended the occupation of the West Bank and all of which have been turned down flat.

It has pulled out from Gaza and been atacked from there by a fascist jihadist terror group — and you think Israel is to blame for their problems and has alienated allies with no good reason.