The Ashkenazim exploit us in everything and give the best and easiest jobs to the Poles,” a soldier wrote to relatives in Morocco. “No propaganda could offset the impressions of the immigrants in letters from Israel and the testimony of those who returned,” he notes. One soldier wrote his family that the antisemitism in Israel was worse than in Poland. The soldiers’ letters are quoted in Hazkani’s new book, “Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War” (in English, from Stanford University Press). Today, you can’t even find 5 percent,” a soldier wrote to his family in England.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 08, 2021 12:27 UTC