The occasion was provided by the publication, in the London "Jewish Chronicle", of an abridgement of Gandhi's final remarks on the question of Jewish relations with the Arabs of Palestine, which had been printed in his English-language journal "Harijan" on 21 July 1946. What complicated Steiner's reply was the fact that, in the meantime, the Irgun had blown up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, and in carrying Gandhi's remarks on 26 July, the "Jewish Chronicle" took note of the incident to contextualise Gandhi's position on non-violence.