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The symbolism of Ireland, Norway and Spain recognising the state of Palestine is rightfully seen as an important landmark in what has been over 70 years of Palestinian dispossession.
Wednesday’s editorial suggests measures introduced by Justice Minister Helen McEntee, including longer sentences for knife crimes, are a show of toughness (‘Why the long wait for Government to get tough on crime?’, April 17).
The Six-Day War in June 1967, when Israel’s tanks drove across the Sinai desert, taking Egypt’s tanks in their sand bunkers in the first defence line by surprise and defeating the second and third defence lines, was described at the time by military historians as brilliant and audacious.