INCONSISTENCY IN PALESTINE
Snt,—Brigadier Longrigg's regard for accuracy is sufficiently characterised by his describing the Jews, who have an historic connection with Palestine of 3,000 years and had the only independent State that ever existed in that country, as " the invading Zionist community." His contrast of the attitude of the British authorities to the Arab rebels in 1936-39 and to the outrages now committed by Jewish terrorists is based upon inadequate data. The Arab rebels (helped and financed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) fought against the Mandate policy approved by the League of Nations ; the Jewish terrorists are fighting against Britain's violation of that policy. The outrages committed by the Arab rebels were instigated and approved by the Arab leaders; those committed by Jewish terrorists have been repeatedly condemned and denounced by the Jewish Agency and all other Jewish authorities in Palestine and throughout the world. From. April, 1936, to November, 1937, not a single Arab guilty of murder was sentenced to death ; and of the fifty condemned to death in 1938 only a few were executed. In the case of Jewish terrorists sentence of death has been passed, although there was no proof of murder (as, for instance, in the case of Dov Gruner, who fought throughout the war on the side of Britain).—Yours faithfully,
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