I could hardly believe how one-sided and distorted was “Arab refugees fear losing their dream” (Page 1, Jan. 4). Their plight is sad indeed, but they have only the Arab countries to blame.
You say that in 1948, Israel “went to war with its Arab neighbors.” The truth is that at the stroke of midnight on May 15, 1948, five Arab countries–Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and irregular units from Iraq–invaded tiny Israel in order to destroy it. They were defeated, and in the turn of events, some 600,000 Palestinians became refugees. Rather than help them resettle, the same Arab countries cynically used these refugees as a breeding ground of hatred toward Israel and Jews. Had these countries shown the same compassion to their brethren as Israel did to nearly 1 million Jewish refugees, the plight of the Palestinian refugees would have long been over.
