TWISTED DEFINITION

How typical of left-wing fantasies is Danny Orbach’s column (“A deserted people,” June 15). He writes of the “Palestinians” not realizing their many goals of destroying us as unrealistic due to the mismatch between our strength and their weakness. He refers to the historian Benny Morris when he says that the answer to their addressing the mismatch is due to long-term historical developments and because most Palestinians see the Nakba of 1948 not only as a military defeat but also as a moral outrage that could not last. The occupation of their ancestral land and the expulsion of its inhabitants was seen as morally repugnant – so offensive to the dignity of the Arabs and Muslims that surely somebody must interfere.

What is totally repugnant is their celebration of death in order to kill Israelis to the extent that children are strapped with bombs and sent out to die, taking with them as many Israelis/Jews as possible, in the name of Islam. In 1948 the Arabs brought about their own “nakba” by refusing to accept the sharing of the Jewish land. Were it a true military defeat, they would have been totally destroyed after Israel defeated the five Arab armies that attacked the nascent Jewish state with the intent to drive it into the sea never to be heard of again. Even today we still offer a hand in friendship to terrorists with the same goal they had in 1948, a sign, on our part, of sick leadership.

I would ask what ‘ancestral land’ is referred to, just as I would ask what Palestinians are there. They are a figment of the imagination of the Arab League in 1967 as a political tool to destroy us as they could not do so militarily. The Jewish land was never their ancestral land from which to be expelled. Islam came into being only 2,200 years after Judaism. I can almost see the tears in Orbach’s eyes as he bemoans the fact that “‘The Palestinian Narrative,’ based on a sense of moral outrage, passiveness and ‘legitimate rights’ is the stumbling block underlying the failure of their struggle from 1948 to this very day.”

There are thousands of Israeli families who have lost their loved ones due to Orbach’s twisted definition of passiveness and legitimate rights. EDITH OGNALL

Netanya