The Guardian’s reporting of the recent case of 12-year-old Dima al-Wawi’s conviction under Israeli martial law (Palestinian girl, 12, freed from Israeli jail, 26 April) failed to point out that such a law is, in fact, entirely British. On 7 June 1967, the commander of the IDF in the West Bank, Chaim Herzog, issued Security Provisions Order Proclamation No 3 which imposed such a system of military justice on the occupied territories, which was nothing other than the 1945 Defence (Emergency) Regulations instituted by the British mandatory government in its struggle to defeat Jewish terrorism. This British law has never been revoked or reformed, and still applies in the occupied territories today.
Julian Wilson
London
• The caption to the photo on the letters page (27 April) suggests pheasants are often shy. Not round here. You can ask Phil the pheasant who regularly walks our garden with his two female companions and of whom I have a photo sitting on the second tier of one of our bird feeders while feasting on the fat balls on the one above.
Ken Cordingley
Williton, Somerset
• “Embracing fat”, “fat can be positive”, “fat derangement syndrome”, “fat activism” (‘London is the most fat-shaming place’, G2, 27 April)? Isn’t this stretching even the soggy-liberal values of Guardian readers a bit far?
Marion Worth
Newport
• May I support Nick Bion’s plea (Letters, 25 April) for a clear link to your letters on the Guardian website? In the days when your site was navigable I always made first for the obituaries and letters to the editor. Now I no longer know who has died unless they are front-page news, and I have no idea whether my letters are being published.
Professor Keith Graham
Bristol
• Nick Michaels (Letters, 27 April) misunderstands capitalism. Keith Flett shouldn’t bother writing letters to the Guardian as there is no profit in it.
Bill Dodds
Newcastle upon Tyne
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