SIR,—Your paragraph on the Israeli " marked indifference to the
suffering which the birth of their State has caused" to the Arab inhabitants of Palestine encourages me to throat' further light on the subject. The Press reports this week that the Israeli authorities have criticised the relief organisations because they " gave food and blankets, which are expendable," instead of being constructive and building farms and wells. The answer is simple. If they had withheld food and blankets, there would have been no one to inhabit the farms, as the refugees would all have been dead by this time. As it is, the mortality from hunger, disease and cold is terribly high. I have it on good authority that every Jew is taught to regard himself as worth more to the world than many gentiles. These facts explain their brutal indifference to the refugees. It is the
old Nazi policy reborn.—Yours faithfully, ELINOR MOORE. 20 Kings Park Road, Southampton.
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