Sir Gerald Kauffman has spoken boldly in the House of Commons on the matter of the Israeli attack on the aid flotilla and the war against Hamas. After many years of support from many different countries Israel is now beginning to lose its friends. It is simply down to the way it deals with the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. After the Holocaust of the Second World War one would have thought there was a lesson to be learned. Yet Israel simply copies the style of treatment it received from the Nazis. I find it incredible.
Sir Gerald referred to the words of a former Israeli commander who declared that the way to peace was by through talking to aour enemies, not trying to kill them. In 1948 the State of Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. It is ludicrous to suggest that they had the sole right to be in that place. Millions of Palestinians too lived in Palestine at that time and their descendants are still there. Talk to the traders and farmers among them and you will see that all they want is to be left in peace to carry on with their work. Yet Israel just bleats on about Hamas, an organisation that is quite evil in itself. The plain fact is that in the circumstances Hamas were elected to power and are therefore the people who represent the Palestinian people.
You cannot continue in this way and retain world support for murdering an indigenous people. Israel no longer has anything to say that is the least bit interesting to the rest of the world. They are simply no longer viable as a world partner for any self respecting country. The tables have turned and it is Israel who are the perpetraters of war crime. Oh how the mighty are fallen!
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