13 NOVEMBER 2004, Page 36

From Frank Adam

Sir: Has Deborah Maccoby (Letters, 6 November) read the Hamas Charter and noted that Hamas will grant only fiveor 50-year 'ceasefires' or 'truces' but has no intention of making a mutual peace?

The IRA never wished to dismantle England. Hamas and the Arab world wish to dismantle Israel and retake Spain, if not all Europe. Given that the UN decided that there should be an Israel as much as a Palestine, the problem of the Arab parties is that they still think they are in the Caliphate ruling the known world. Cut your losses, deal with Israel as an equal, resettle your refugees on your side of the border, and get on with the rest of your lives.

Frank Adam

Prestwich. Manchester