A reign of terror began in Haifa

I can sympathise with the sentiments of Isaac Barr, of Michigan, with regard to living in Haifa as he did in 1948 as a 14-year-old (Irish Examiner, Wednesday, September 10).

Jewish/Palestinian relations in Haifa were good in the early to late 1940s, as his experience testifies.

Unfortunately, personal experience tells only a small part of the story. The expulsion/ethnic cleansing of 75,000 Palestinians from Haifa is one of the most tragic episodes of the Nabka (displacement of the people).