Israel has the right to protect itself

I AM disturbed at the words of Michael Higgins (Irish Examiner letters, March 21).

Writing from the calm and safety of beautiful Adare, he denies Israelis the right to build a fence with which to defend their lives, to remove a suspected assassin from the custody of an administration committed to wiping out their whole country and insists on due process for known mass murderers while Israeli children await an almost certain annihilation from them. And he calls the Israelis barbaric!

God forbid that Adare should ever come under the kind of threat that would restore Mr Higgins’ sense of proportion and morality.