To: letters@standard.co.uk 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:02 PM
Sub: Israel vs. Syria: Even-handedness between the fire-fighter and the fire (to your Editorial 7 October)

Madam,

Upbraiding Israel for bombing a terrorist camp in Syria (Editorial 7 October) displays a lofty even-handedness but, as Churchill remarked, one does not have to be even-handed between the fire-fighter and the fire.

Syria defiantly shelters Palestinian terrorist leaders - openly admitted in 2002 by Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian security chief. The wonder is that Israel has shown forbearance for so long, while Israeli children on school buses and Israeli families at cafes (Arab as well as Jewish) have been callously slaughtered by the Syrian-backed production line of brain-washed Palestinian fanatics that starts when Palestinian nursery school children are taught deliberately to aspire to suicide (Matthew Kalman in the Evening Standard).

If Syria desires immunity from its inhumanity, president Bashir Assad and his brutally repressive regime must end complicity in the hosting, training, arming and financing of the terror groups behind the sickening atrocities inflicted on his neighbour's citizens.

W.M. L., Wembley

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