I feel compelled to respond to Richard Mottsman's March 17 letter, "Yearn for past," about Palestinian-Israeli borders.
Mr. Mottsman has displayed either his enormous ignorance or his extreme intolerance of the Palestinian-Israeli violence. Apparently he forgot that in 1948 and before, there was a Palestine and no Israel.
Informed people know that the Jews long yearned for a Jewish nation. So the Jews convinced the United Nations to give them a homeland by unjustly summarily and unilaterally kicking out all the Palestinians, without the slightest compensation. Thus, suddenly, there was no Palestine, but in its place was an Israel.
There is no worse injustice than that. Consequently, the Palestinians are justified in fighting to re-establish their own nation.
Regarding Poland's borders, the great majority of the Polish people would prefer the restoration of the 1939 borders. It would be a much larger nation.
