• RUTH Tenne’s letter, which denigrates Israel, claims she was in Israel at the time of 1948 when five Arab armies attacked the new state intent on destroying it at birth, (We must not be blind to the injustice faced by Palestinians, August 16).

They did not succeed. Could Ruth Tenne give us the name of her kibbutz and the three villages destroyed?

G GILBERT
Grove End Road, NW8