Financial Times August 11, 2006
“How independence for India affected history of Mideast”
From Mr Guy Wroble Denver, co 80220, US
Sir, Stanley M. Spitzer (“To get to the truth you must go back to November 1947”, Letters August 8) that November 27, 1947 was the crucial date in the origin of the current problems in the Middle East. On that date the United Nations passed a partition plan for Palestine that was rejected by the Arab League. Unfortunately, he misses the mark by two-and-a-half months.
The telling date is actually August 15, 1947 – the date India became independent. This marked the beginning of the end of the era of European colonisation.
“How independence for India affected history of Mideast”
From Mr Guy Wroble Denver, co 80220, US
Sir, Stanley M. Spitzer (“To get to the truth you must go back to November 1947”, Letters August 8) that November 27, 1947 was the crucial date in the origin of the current problems in the Middle East. On that date the United Nations passed a partition plan for Palestine that was rejected by the Arab League. Unfortunately, he misses the mark by two-and-a-half months.
The telling date is actually August 15, 1947 – the date India became independent. This marked the beginning of the end of the era of European colonisation.
The notion that the Arab League could have sanctioned the establishment of a European/Jewish colony in Palestine so soon after a fifth of humanity had been set free from imperial rule is a remarkable misreading of history.
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