Letter: The Israelis took half of Palestine so they are not victims

With regard to Phelim McAleer’s column: (‘The top American lawyer Alan Dershowitz told me of his dismay at the anti-Israeli hatred in Ireland,’ Dec 16).

I disagree with most if not all statements therein. Phelim refers to how a “people at peace people became victims”. Surely he doesn't mean the Jews who in 1948 who were awarded more then half of historic Palestine lands and property stolen by Balfour’s Britain 1918-48 by invading, occupying, ethnically cleansing planting with strangers from all over their empire.

Those strangers left the Palestinians not only homeless but stateless to forever wander the globe as refugees. In less than 20 years they decided the big half of Palestine was not enough and went on to steal it all West-Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and Golan Heights – now called Trump heights (what an insult).

Peter McAvoy, Co Down