Madam, - Israel has erected a wall/fence to try to keep out suicide bombers bent on the destruction of the Jewish state and carried out an extra-judicial assassination of a murderous zealot who gave the moral and religious justification for such acts.
Both sides are braced for, and resigned to, a substantial increase in violence. At what stage does the international community give serious consideration to intervening in the dispute, using whatever means are possible? - Is mise,
ERIC CREAN, Shandon Gardens, Phibsborough, Dublin 7.