You cannot compare the Paris attackers to the Palestinian fighters

It was only a matter of time before the tragic killings in Paris would be exploited and Kevin McCarthy (Letters, November 18) has done that. 

Putting aside the immorality of using the deaths of those innocents in an attempt to whitewash the behaviour of Israel, there are two falsehoods in his letter that need to be addressed.

Firstly, despite numerous letters in the Irish Examiner in recent months providing proof and referencing the dozens of apartheid laws in Israel, Mr McCarthy persists in describing Israel as a “democratic state”. As stated previously, it is an ethnocracy, or as Israeli geography Professor Oren Yiftachel describes it, a “settler