Madam, - While objecting to my letter of October 6th, Raymond Deane, Chair of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (October 12th) understandably dodges my challenge: to name a Middle East state other than Israel (and now Afghanistan) with any democratic legitimacy whatsoever, from universal suffrage to a free press to an independent supreme court.
Or name one with even the freedom to establish bodies which are openly anti-government, or pro-gay, or atheist. There is none. - Yours, etc.,
TONY ALLWRIGHT, Killiney, Co Dublin.