Nadia El-Nakla’s article resounds with clarity, compassion and love for humanity (My family are trapped in Gaza with only salty water to drink – we need a ceasefire to let aid in and people out, 18 October).
The phrase “We are that close”, used by her Palestinian father when discussing the faiths of Muslims and Jews, struck me. It took me directly to another distinguished Palestinian, Musa Alami, who used a similar phrase in conversation with Desmond Stewart in 1979, which he reported in his book The Palestinians: Victims of Expediency.
