In her letter on the US headlined, 'Worst violators of human rights' (South China Morning Post, March 5), your correspondent Elsie Tu asks, 'Was there ever such hypocrisy in the world?'

I would like to point to Mrs Tu's hypocrisy concerning her continual criticism of Israel with respect to the Palestinians, without any mention of the policy of the Arab world over the past 50 years to try to achieve the annihilation of the Jewish state.

Mrs Tu has not made any attempt to appreciate the problems encountered by Israel.