Great letter in The Independent. tomorrow. I can just sense it somehow.
Arabs and Israel
Sir: Peter Janikoun (letter, 25 May) repeats one of the most enduring Zionist myths when he claims that the Arab states attacked Israel as soon as the state was declared in May 1948.
The UN's partition plan and Britain's departure from Palestine were both announced in November 1947. The Zionist militias immediately began attacking and ethnically cleansing Arab villages and seizing land beyond that allocated to the Jewish state by the UN. The British left Palestine in May 1948 and then the Arab states mobilised to prevent the ethnic cleansing.
By May 1948 there were already hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and by the end of that war there were nearly a million.
MARK ELF
Dagenham, Essex"
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