British failed in their duty to Jewish people

I DO not know what Mr Teegan’s career path is, but he has missed his vocation as a teller of fairy tales (Irish Examiner letters, May 15).

The desolate and virtually uninhabited land mandated to the British by the League of Nations in 1917 comprised Eastern and Western Palestine.

Their task was to assist in developing a Jewish national home.

Instead of carrying out their mission, the British (in 1920) created a puppet state in the eastern area now known as Jordan, which occupies 70% of the mandated area.

The UN, in 1948, approved the state of Israel, which occupied about 12% of the original mandated area.

Instead of carrying out instructions from the League of Nations and facilitating the immigration of Jews into the area, the British did just the opposite. They encouraged anyone except Jews.

The British, of course, never wanted to carry out the conditions of the mandate as they wanted to maintain a presence in the area for their own political reasons.

While they and the French had set up other states in what was the Ottoman empire for 400 years, they conspired to prevent the setting up of the Jewish state.

M Ross,

15, Loftus Square,

Rathfarnham,

Dublin 14.