14 APRIL 2007, Page 26

The Hebron massacre

Sir: In Rod Liddle’s article ‘You get your film and go home’ (7 April), no mention is made of the reason why the Jewish population in Hebron is so small: the massacre in 1929 of the Jews of Hebron (who lived there for many centuries) while the British mandate government looked the other way. Later the British expelled the survivors ‘for their own safety’. Typical British sense of morality and justice.

Yakar Kannai Rehovot, Israel