SIR – Iran, by its own admission, fully supports the terrorist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah, supplying them with money and weapons. It also openly admits that its goal is the destruction of Israel, followed by the destruction of the West – yet the US, UK and EU do all they can to appease a regime that would destroy us in a heartbeat.
Israel has decided that now is the time to confront Iran and its proxies – before they hold a nuclear weapon. In doing so, Israel is assuring not only its own survival but also that of the West.
It is sheer cowardice to continually call for a ceasefire. Why are we not working to support the only nation that has the courage to fight our common enemy? Israel must be allowed to finish the job of destroying the Iranian “axis of evil”.
Mike McKone
Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
SIR – Israel’s land mass is about 0.16 per cent that of the Arab states. What’s more, Jews have been in Israel for well over 3,000 years – it’s not as though they turned up unannounced on someone else’s land. Yet despite all this, there is an obsession with annihilating the people of Israel.
The Iranians, instead of using their oil wealth to enhance the quality of life of their people, spend it on arming Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. Hamas spends billions in aid money – sent to benefit the people of Gaza – on building tunnels and buying weapons.
I am not Jewish, but I lived in Israel for three years and was there in 1973 during the Yom Kippur war. I met hundreds of Arabs living fully integrated and happy lives in Israel. I can assure you they don’t want to be annihilated just because they live peacefully within the borders of the world’s only Jewish state.
Gavin MacBean
Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire
SIR – Janet Eastham’s report is spot-on (“BBC ‘institutionally hostile’ to Israel, say Jewish groups”, October 1). On Wednesday, the Today programme interviewed an Iranian academic who was given a 10-minute slot in which he was allowed to preach a narrative of hate virtually unchecked, accusing Israel of being an “ethno-supremacist” state that is committing a “holocaust” in Gaza, and making out that Hamas are the victims.
It is time the BBC was held to account.
Jeremy Parr
Suckley, Worcestershire
SIR – Iran, by its own admission, fully supports the terrorist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah, supplying them with money and weapons. It also openly admits that its goal is the destruction of Israel, followed by the destruction of the West – yet the US, UK and EU do all they can to appease a regime that would destroy us in a heartbeat.
Israel has decided that now is the time to confront Iran and its proxies – before they hold a nuclear weapon. In doing so, Israel is assuring not only its own survival but also that of the West.
It is sheer cowardice to continually call for a ceasefire. Why are we not working to support the only nation that has the courage to fight our common enemy? Israel must be allowed to finish the job of destroying the Iranian “axis of evil”.
Mike McKone
Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
SIR – Israel’s land mass is about 0.16 per cent that of the Arab states. What’s more, Jews have been in Israel for well over 3,000 years – it’s not as though they turned up unannounced on someone else’s land. Yet despite all this, there is an obsession with annihilating the people of Israel.
The Iranians, instead of using their oil wealth to enhance the quality of life of their people, spend it on arming Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. Hamas spends billions in aid money – sent to benefit the people of Gaza – on building tunnels and buying weapons.
I am not Jewish, but I lived in Israel for three years and was there in 1973 during the Yom Kippur war. I met hundreds of Arabs living fully integrated and happy lives in Israel. I can assure you they don’t want to be annihilated just because they live peacefully within the borders of the world’s only Jewish state.
Gavin MacBean
Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire
SIR – Janet Eastham’s report is spot-on (“BBC ‘institutionally hostile’ to Israel, say Jewish groups”, October 1). On Wednesday, the Today programme interviewed an Iranian academic who was given a 10-minute slot in which he was allowed to preach a narrative of hate virtually unchecked, accusing Israel of being an “ethno-supremacist” state that is committing a “holocaust” in Gaza, and making out that Hamas are the victims.
It is time the BBC was held to account.
Jeremy Parr
Suckley, Worcestershire