Independent letter

That Simon Kellner* geezer must be some kind of self-hater**.

"Sir: Jonathan Smilansky is wrong to say that Yasser Arafat introduced suicide bombing to the Middle East. The first such bombing that I know of in the Middle East was by Hizbollah against American troops, killing 241, in 1983. Hamas, not under Arafat's control, carried out the first Palestinian suicide bombing in 1994 after an American Zionist, Dr Baruch Goldstein, carried out a suicidal attack on a mosque in Hebron killing 29 Palestinians.
MARK ELF
Dagenham, Essex"

* The Independent's editor and the only Jewish editor of a mainstream UK newspaper.

** Self-hater - What Zionists call a Jew who criticises Israel