All citizens of this world of need a break from the atrocities that are being done to various citizens, especially our children.

Each individual should really try to make their voices known to their political representatives.

We all know that there is the urgent need to keep citizens of all countries free from terrorism, but surely this does not entail the heavy-handiness recently perpe-trated by the Israeli army against the innocent children in Palestine.

Their quarrel is with the Hamas group and they need to work with the United Nations to find a solution to the differences that separate these two groups.

Unjustified punishment

I have been listening to the BBC programmes and a lot of people calling in, including Israelis, are appalled at the punishment handed out to the Palestinians for the acts of Hamas. Does the punishment fit the crime? Certainly not; just look at the numbers killed. On the Israeli side about eight people have been killed and on the Palestinian side, more than 1,000.

I have always heard that most people who were abused as children they themselves become abusers. Could it be that because of the suffering meted out to the Jews in Hitler's Germany, the Jews are entitled to do anything they feel like? If the people of each race who have suffered felt this way, then the world would go up in smoke.

It is time that the United States, and all the other countries which constantly support Israel, tell them in no uncertain terms that enough is enough and that it is necessary for them to sit down with Hamas and sort out their differences.

After all, they are cousins and should by this be able to live with each other without both sides intermittently killing each other

I am, etc.,

BARBARA COVER

Kingston 6