Moslem emotions
Sir: Your correspondent Mr David M Jacobs (Letters, 24 March) does scant justice to the true nature of the Middle East conflict. This had very little to do with Islam or 'Moslem rule', but was the direct result of the taking over in 1948 of three-quarters of Palestine by its then Jewish minority, in defiance of the rights and wishes of its indigenous Arab majority. The 'Moslem emotions' this evoked in the Palestinians and their friends were surely those universal ones which Jews of all people should understand, namely the desolation and despair 0.f being dispossessed and deprived of their homeland.
Just as in 1948 the Palestinians were forced to cede more than half of their country to make way for a Jewish state, so now it is high time that similar pressures were brought to bear upon Israel to allow the same basic rights to the long-suffering Palestinians, in the form of genuine independence in their own land.
N. Si/kin,
3 Abbotts Crescent, Enfield, Middlesex
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