IN even the grimmest of situations there can be humour, and I found it today in the letter (November 1) from Tim Cox . He writes: “Israel..
. is developing mature coexistence with her more serious neighbours.” Really? By committing genocide on their doorsteps and insisting that might is right? Israel’s near neighbours have condemned its barbarity and hopes of a rapprochement with Saudi Arabia have long gone.
Israel will have to live with the consequences of the Netanyahu government’s terrorism, and one of those is hostility from nations the world over. Her supporters are few, with only the US and UK dependable allies among the major powers. Of course the US itself has form on barbarity in relatively recent times.
I’m old enough to remember their carpet bombing of Cambodia, which killed an estimated 600,000 civilians and set that country up for the nightmare that was the Khmer Rouge. At least Harold Wilson had the sense to tell the Americans the UK wasn’t going to get involved in Vietnam; it’s a pity the current occupant of No 10 is content to turn us back to being America’s poodle. Doug Maughan, Dunblane.
Innocents are being murdered IN response to Tim Cox’s robust response to my letter of October 31 on David Lammy I can only wonder why he ignored my main point, which was the effect that the pressure groups in Westminster, the Friends of Israel and the existence of AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) in Washington are having on the “war” .