Responsibility for the Palestinians’ living conditions lies with Israel

The demonisation of the Palestinian people by Desmond Fitzgerald continues unabated (Letters, October 8).

He now claims that were a Palestinian state ever to come into existence, it would simply become “another backward, oppressive and corrupt state”, presumably like Israel’s allies Egypt and Jordan.

However, his prophecy that ‘its failure is inevitable’ will probably never be tested because Israel has no intention of ever allowing it to exist in the first place, and Israel’s leaders, including Benjamin Netanyahu, are on record as saying so.