THE debate about who's right and who's wrong in the Middle East seems to be going on ad infinitum.

Unfortunately, the problem is that there will never be peace on the planet as long as we have conflicting religions. At the present rate, it will be centuries before they all die out.

The people who are currently prolonging religions, either hypocritically or innocently, make strange bedfellows. To list but a few, we have the Pope, our Queen, the President of America and the leaders of all the Jews and Muslims.

Religions provide wealth, power and glory for some people, while some others allow themselves to be used as cannon fodder in the hope that they will achieve glory in another place.

J Sayers, Spennymoor, Co Durham.