In the review of Oren Kessler’s “Palestine 1936” (Books, Feb. 11), Dominic Green presents two concepts of the book that are inherently flawed. First, Mr. Kessler argues that the Arab Revolt of 1936, led by Haj Amin al-Husseini , the mufti of Jerusalem, “cast the mold of the Jewish-Arab encounter ever since.” But the mufti (later a Nazi collaborator) had already incited massacres of Palestinian Jews in 1920 (the Nebi Musa riots, five Jews killed), in 1921 (the Jaffa riots, 47 Jews killed) and in 1929 (riots across Palestine, 133 Jews killed), the most horrific of which was in Hebron...