Frank Baigel (Letters, 4 January) criticised Elena Curti’s article, “Land of no milk and honey” (14 December) and accused the international development charity Christian Aid of being “anti-Israel”. Christian Aid strongly refutes any suggestion that we are “anti-Israeli”. We have consistently condemned violence and supported Israel’s right to exist along with the right of all peoples to live in peace and security.Christian Aid’s mandate from our sponsoring Churches is to strengthen the poor, firm in the belief that all people are made in the image of God and therefore of equal worth. As an organisation, we respond to poverty which is why in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (IOPT) most of our work is in the West Bank. We wor