When Pope Francis makes the customary visit to the Yad Vashem holocaust memorial (The Church in the World, 5 April), wouldn’t it be a step for reconciliation if he also remembered there the iconic massacre of Deir Yassin in 1948, which at 1.5km distance would have been within earshot of the ­memorial site? In case this is thought to be partisan, the attack on Deir Yassin by the Irgun and the Stern Gang extremists was condemned by the Hagganah, the main Israeli paramilitaries, and the