14 OCTOBER 2000, Page 40

Sins of the fathers

From Mr A. Blesovsky Sir: It is strange that, in their articles on Israel and the shooting of a 12-year-old boy (7 October), neither Emma Williams nor Stephen Glover asked the obvious question: what sort of father takes his son into an area where rifle fire is being exchanged?

A. Blesovsky

Isle of Arran