THE Reverend Peter Mullen (Echo, July 29) has clearly swallowed the whole rhetoric of the Israeli Government.

Far fewer people do these days.

The Israeli arguments, that it is going after terrorists to protect itself and has nothing against the residents of Gaza, don’t wash because from the start Jewish settlers have used one tactic after another to drive out Palestinians.

The Israeli government has done everything it could to make sure that the displaced Palestinians do not have the right to return.

The irony is that the United Nations has declared the settlements in the West bank illegal but has ended up doing nothing about it.

The propaganda that has been presented by Israel wears thinner and thinner every day because the whole world sees the actions of the Israeli military.

G Bulmer, Billingham.