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Letters / Turning a blind eye

Another year has passed and in Gaza hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed or made ill and displaced.

Keir Starmer, the inspiring Labour leader, hasn’t uttered a word of criticism about the Israeli onslaught on them. He says he is an unreconstructed Zionist, as if that’s a virtue, but it’s simpler than that.

Starmer has the Labour leader’s instinct to do everything that the US president tells him. That involves turning a blind eye to every genocidal act by Netanyahu and his far-right colleagues and war machine.

It’s difficult to imagine Starmer or Biden reading a book, but Ilan Pappe’s recent Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict could be a first step towards enlightenment and morality.

Brian Smith
Weisdale

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