The binary correspondence of your newspaper’s two perennial commentators, Sydney Kaye and Terry Crawford-Browne, in which they fail to acknowledge the relative merits of each other’s position, has become tiresome (Kaye denies Israeli genocide (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-02-19-letter-kaye-denies-israeli-genocide/), February 19).
I find it disturbing that while Kaye refuses to show any sympathy for his adversary, Crawford-Browne accomplishes the exact same, in what can only be termed a pathetic piece of supersessionist propaganda taken straight from a book of replacement theology. He opens his anti-enlightenment tract by stating: “The Palestinians survived the Roman empire ...” This blatant revisionism ignores the well-documented fact that it was the Roman empire that created the province of Syria-Palestinae, in its efforts to quash the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132-135 AD, centuries before Islam's emergence. The statement deserves to be rejected purely on...
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