I think Jonathan Saunders’ letter of Friday, August 8, sums up nicely the recent history of Palestine. However, I can’t see how a Jewish state could police the Arab world because its creation has antagonised the Arab and Islamic world to the point where the US, and its allies, are now considered their enemy number one.

As things stand, Israel will be surrounded by enemies into the foreseeable future.

Why did the US government and, seemingly, its population, support the idea of a Jewish state which required the taking over of someone else’s homeland – surely they could see the unfairness of that?

Derrick Holt Fortnam Close Headington Oxford

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