THE United Kingdom, the United States and the citizens of the only real democracy in the Middle East, Israel, may have good reason to worry about the election of Hamas in Palestine. (Hypocrisy On Iran, Letters, February 6).

They probably remember when Hitler and his cronies were democratically elected in Germany in the Thirties and we all know what happened then.

Philip Welch,

The Field House,

Sutton on Derwent,

York.

Updated: 10:54 Friday, February 17, 2006