There are no grounds upon which you can liken a legitimate army to jihadists

Bill Russell (Letters, November 25th) draws a moral equivalence between the Gaza war last Summer and the atrocity in Paris by Islamic State.

It was only a matter of time before the perversity of anti-Israel fanaticism raised its head and tried to use the corpses of murdered French teenagers as political fodder against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.

The war in Gaza last Summer was started by Hamas, yet another Islamist fundamentalist and terrorist group only marginally less psychotic than Islamic state in its theology and methods.