MALCOLM Pittock’s latest astonishing rant “Anger is political not racist” (April 10) has galvanised me into responding.

His robotic-like defence of his idol “the great leader” Jeremy Corbyn and the brain-dead Marxist ideology spewed out by Corbyn is indeed pitiful.

Corbyn, thankfully, will never become Prime Minister.

His support for Hamas and Hezbullah, whom he called “his friends”, is proof positive.

The “stated” goal of these vile organisations is the total destruction of the state of Israel and indeed the total annihilation of the world’s entire population of Jews.

As a “radical”, as Pittock describes himself, he sees “the Palestinians as the underdog, the victims of Israeli racism and imperialism”.

Time for a little history lesson, Mr Pittock!

The myth of a stable, settled and peaceful Palestine and a Palestinian-Arab-Muslim population that had lived in villages and worked the land for centuries only to be displaced by the ‘zionist’ invaders is incorrect.

The Palestine to which European Jews immigrated was vastly under populated and the land on to which Jews moved was, in fact, bought primarily from absentee landlords.

They did not displace local residents by conquest or fear.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Burak at the Camp David talks offered the Palestinian leadership virtually everything they had been demanding.

This included a state with its capital in Jerusalem, control over Temple Mount a return of approximately 95 per cent of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip, along with a $30 billion compensation package for the 1948 refugees.

And Yasser Arafat, another misanthropic Marxist, turned the offer down, intentionally consigning generations of “Palestinians” to decades of conflict, poverty and misery.

Israel is the only country in modern history to have returned land captured in a defensive war and crucial to its own self-defence in exchange for peace.

Corbyn’s “friends” Hamas, (and I presume Malcolm Pittock’s friends also) deliberately hide behind civilians in order to provoke mistakes that add to the body count that is central to their cruel arithmetic of death.

Although Israeli soldiers make mistakes and overreact like soldiers in all armies do, at least there is an ethical code at which their actions can be judged.

Palestinian terrorists have no similar constraints. Their orders are to kill and maim as many innocent civilians as possible and they do so with a zeal and with a promise of heavenly bounty.

Malcolm Pittock within his letter implies Israel to be one of the prime human rights violators in the world.

He is guilty either of abysmal ignorance or malignant bigotry.

In either case he is in very large, "although not very good company" with the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and Noam Chomsky, etc.

When the Palestinians want their own state more than they want to destroy the state of Israel, most Israelis will welcome a peaceful Palestinian state.

I feel confident in asserting that Israel’s record on human rights is among the best in the world.

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East, protecting and upholding not just the rights of Jewish people within its borders, but people from all faiths, ethnicities, political persuasions and indeed sexual orientation, something completely alien to all of its Muslim-Arab neighbours.

And I salute them.

Stuart A Chapman

Co Kerry

Ireland