Dan Gillerman (a Brighton boy!), now Israel's Ambassador to the UN, was asked by an interviewer: "Why is Israel causing such mayhem?"

Gillerman replied that modern Israel arose from the ashes of the Holocaust in which six million Jews were brutally slaughtered.

The president of Iran has decreed (a) the Holocaust was a figment of the imagination and (b) Israel must be wiped from the face of the Earth.

Gillerman told the interviewer Israel had no intention of allowing the president of Iran, or anyone else, to witness another Holocaust.

Israel has learned the lesson and if others refuse to do so, including the president of Iran, they too will have to endure Israel's efforts to avoid a repetition of that revolting blot on the history of mankind.

Who can blame them?

  • CM Jacobs, Grand Avenue, Hove