A Rejected Letter

I received this posting from Michael Caines of the prestegious Times Literary Supplement:

"The Editor thanks you for your letter, but regrets that he is unable to
publish it."

And here is what was rejected:-

In his review of ADVENTURES IN EGYPT AND NUBIA, on the travels of
William John Bankes ("Take walk, make no book"), Mick Imlah
writes that Bankes traveled also "in Syria, including modern Jordan and
Palestine". This description is misleading.

Palestine always included both modern Israel and Jordan. All maps of
the area portray Palestine as stretching east and west of the Jordan
River. Indeed, the original geography of the League of Nations Mandate,
granted to Great Britian in 1922, spanned from the Mediterranean Sea to
the Iraqi Desert. Jordan was administered, until 1946, as part of the
Palestine Mandate.

To avoid mentioning Israel, if done consciously, is to completely miss
the compass.

Now you know why it was rejected, right?