SIR – The version you printed of my letter “State isn’t Fascist” (July 7) altered (even made nonsense of) my meaning.

I wrote “Israel...is one of the few democracies in the region, with Lebanon and Turkey, and with Iraq moving in that direction”, not “Israel...is one of the few democracies in the region, with Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq moving in that direction”. The difference matters!

A Michael Murphy, Baildon Wood Court, Baildon, Shipley