Letters to the Editor: Third World War lurks in the Middle East

A reader says nothing can condone or justify the brutality of the State of Israel

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon. Picture: Hassan Ammar/Ap Photo

I wish to refer to Fachtna O’Raftery’s letter in your publication of October 5, regarding an article penned by Dorcha Lee recently in his assessment of the powder keg which is now the Middle East. 

Dorcha Lee and I studied together in the cadet school in the early 60s, were commissioned together and are occasionally in contact regarding matters military and indeed Irish security with the emerging threats from the east to our country’s borders of land, sea and air, and our county’s apparent lack of responsibility and cohesive planning for securing the fibre optic cables going east/west in the Atlantic, in our nation’s territorial waters.