After the recent letters ‘Don't blame the Jews' by D Himpers and ‘If rockets continue, there's no alternative' by B Martin I decided to see if anyone would set the record straight on their glaring errors of fact.
No one has, so I thought rather than waste electrons on pointing out each and every error, I'd make some more general comments.
Firstly, get the facts straight. If D Himpers was referring to the SS Exodus 1947, well, the incident happened in 1947, not 1950, and the passengers were sent to British-run internment camps in Germany, not the death camps they had been liberated from.
Secondly, get the identities straight. ‘The Jews?' Give us who did what when and where, not some general claptrap about ‘the Jews', ‘the Arabs', the Whatnots. People have names, places have names, times have dates.
For example, it's well known the Palmach attacked and captured the Palestinian Arab towns of Lod and Ramle on July 9-10, 1948. They dumped the survivors in Gaza. If that is what B Martin meant alleging the Arab League states 'cajoled” them to leave...since when did the Palmach take orders from the Arab League?
W Paris, Bellevue.