Arab objection to Israel manifested long before 1967

Arab objection to Israel’s existence was blazing before 1967, in three rounds of riots against the Mandate and three wars. 

The occupation of the Jordanian West Bank is a consequence, not cause, of the dispute, even if Israeli development and Arab violence hardly calm the atmosphere.

It was Israeli settlement that forced the Arabs to Madrid and Oslo, as much as the intifada moved Israel.

The late Yigal Yadin — Israeli chief of staff in 1948 — told an interviewer in the 1970s that he was not sure whether he was a hawk or a dove, but he had no intention of being a sitting duck.

Frank Adam,

Prestwich,

England