Dear editor:Where did Bruce Ticker get the idea that Israel has ever persecuted the Palestinians? (“Long Live October 7’ Anti-Israel Mob Tells Us” boulderjewishnews.org October 10, 2024) In fact, it is Arab leaders and, after 1964, Palestinian leaders, who are responsible for the Palestinians’ suffering and statelessness. The Zionists accepted the offer but Arab nations rejected it and went to war trying to prevent the emergence of a Jewish state in the Jews’ ancestral homeland. Surely, Arab nations, with vast landholdings (and some having oil riches) should have been able to take in the Arabs who’d left Palestine. https://www.wsj.com/articles/expose-the-palestinian-refugee-scam-1530833146Following decades of wars, intifadas, and terrorist attacks, Israel and Palestinian leaders signed the Oslo Accords in the mid-1990’s.

Source: New York Times October 18, 2024 04:57 UTC