SIR – Mr A Michael Murphy (Letters, November 26) may well have the better of me concerning the Khazars and their Jewish identity and, if so, I bend the knee to his superior scholarship.
He would also have us believe that the population of Israel is largely made of Jews expelled from Arab countries.
Not so. Between 1919 and 2006, 3,374,275 people emigrated to Palestine, 2,112,269 of them from Europe (official Israeli statistics).
Meanwhile, indigenous Palestinians have been pushed into the ghettoes of Gaza and the West Bank where 450,000 Israelis continue to build settlements.
So when Mr Murphy asks, “what should be done with the six million Jews of Israel”, does he spare a thought for all those displaced Palestinians? What is to be done with them? Or do Palestinians not matter!
Stuart Baker, Markham Croft, Leeds
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