Israel has ‘right to exist and to live in self-determination and peace’

Victoria White’s column (Opinion, July 24) on the Israel/Palestine conflict is flawed in so many ways. Here are two. First, Israel is not a colonial state and was not created as the result of “the mania for ethnic cleansing that started in Russia,” whatever that means.

Israel has ‘right to exist and to live in self-determination and peace’

Hundreds of thousands of Jews travelled legally to Palestine and purchased land there in the early 1900s to escape anti-Semitic persecution and be in control of their own destiny. Before and during the Second World War Britain prevented many more thousands of European Jews trying to flee persecution from entering Palestine, due to Arab pressure. That’s one way the Holocaust is related to the current conflict.

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