THE Reverend Dr John Cameron makes some points in his letter (May 24) which need some examination. The Israel he refers to; what are its borders? The borders of 1949, or ’67, or between the Mediterranean and the Jordan river (which many Israelis want, though what happens to the Palestinians is never explained)?

He states that the 1918 Assembly welcomed Arthur Balfour’s support for a Jewish homeland; quite right, but that support also stated that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish community”; a commitment which the UK then never tried to maintain.

The Kirk also rejected sanctions against Israel. Those could have been justified on the grounds of annexation of land and expropriation of land; the illegal treatment of the subjugated civilian population of Palestine; the development and threatened use of weapons of mass destruction.

Hamas is a Sunni fundamentalist off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood----the Palestinians are stuck between them as “resistance” and the Israeli occupation, a hellish choice of “friends and foes”.

Perhaps Dr Cameron could give us his insight as to a fair resolution for all this, because I’m damned if I could?

GR Weir,

17 Mill Street,

Ochiltree.