| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Fleur Anderson abstained on Gaza ceasefire vote | |
| Posted by: | John Hawkes | |
| Date/Time: | 26/11/23 12:31:00 |
| Mr Doorly In some ways, however the current situation arose, it is what it is and I would be interested in your views and those of others below you on this thread regarding the questions I posed to our MP. Does the state of Israel have the same right as the UK to exist ? Is not Israel like the UK a democratic state with an independent judiciary and a free press ? Does it not have a right to defend itself ? Is Gaza in contrast not a dictatorship, controlled by Hamas with no electoral mandate ? Is Hamas not a proscribed terrorist organisation that invaded Israel on 7th November murdering 1400 civilians including women and children ? Was Israel not justified in chasing them back into Gaza, where, cowardly, they hide amongst civilians, in order to eliminate them ? For did the UK not invade Germany in order to pay them back for their attacks on us and thence to eliminate Nazism, a racist form of fascism similar to the doctrine of Hamas ? Is it not these cowardly tactics by Hamas that have caused so much civilian death and destruction and not deliberate tactics of Israel ? Hamas will not negotiate as they are killers not talkers and neither should Israel be suckered into believing a word they might say. I am amazed the support Palestinians have in the UK, as well as their numbers living here, as shown by how many are supporting them on marches 'for peace'(sic). Why are UK resident Palestinians not defending their homelands if such are so precious to them ? And support by some Britons surprises me bearing in mind what the UK has suffered from Islamism inherent in Palestinian doctrine. I refer to such incidents as the 7/7 London bus bombing, the Manchester Arena bombing, the Bristol stabbing and the murder of David Amess MP. I am shocked by the antisemitism inherent in these marches and revealed by criticism of and lack of support for Israel. We do have a binary choice. Israel is exposed to an existential threat as is clear if you Google and read the Hamas charter. It deserves our support and so would Palestine if it stopped its belligerent martyrism and put its effort into developing the land it controls as Israel did. Till Palestinians do so and stop relying on Hamas and the PLO in the West Bank to control and represent them I am afraid they do not deserve support but rather condemnation. |