The ongoing slaughter of Gazans - for 3 months - by our side is unacceptable

Dear Andy - and copied to my own MP, James Morris in the bleak hope that he might be impressed by what you wrote, below when he isn't when it comes from me.

Thank you for your brilliant letter, below this, to your MP that you sent me.  You have said it perfectly and you have put it better than I did.  I am told there is a balanced view put by some Christians who are convinced that the State of Israel can, almost, do no wrong and that God is, uniquely, on its side.  For them, Israel has a special place in God's heart as His Chosen Nation.

Thanks so much for sending me what you wrote, Andy.  I remain horrified by man's inhumanity to man and this latest manifestation from both sides, indeed all sides and from everyone who believes in coercion, force, violence, killings, war.

Best wishes

Tim

On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 08:31, andrew hardwick <andyhardwick4@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear John Penrose

I am writing to express my concern about the situation in Israel/Palestine and the UKs public and political response to it. 

What Hamas did in its attacks on October 7th was barbaric and cannot be defended. The attacks from motorbikes, the killing of children and taking of hostages is a crime against humanity. Of course, after 75 catastrophic years we may understand it, but such random killing cannot be justified.  

I have heard many times the statement Israel has the right to defend itself. That statement cannot be used to justify the collective punishment that the Israelis are now inflicting on the Palestinians of Gaza. 

Israel is practising its own form of apartheid. How many Palestinians have been killed by Israel in 2023? How many of these were children? How many Palestinians are being held in Israeli jails without trial? How many Palestinian homes, and villages have set on fire by Israeli settlers? What are the British governments official figures please? 

I am disappointed to see the prime minster and the leaders of the opposition so openly siding with Israel. The Hamas killings cannot be justified. The Israeli killings cannot be justified. 

It is time for British politicians to speak out against the violent terror that is being inflicted on the Palestinians by Israel, as well as speaking out against the violence of Hamas. 

Dear Tim

Thanks for copying me in to your letter, I share your concerns. Above is my letter to my MP. I intend to send him another one this week. 

Hope you and Linda are both well. 

Best wishes 

Andy 

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From: Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 10:51:53 AM
To: James Morris <james.morris.mp@parliament.uk>
Subject: The ongoing slaughter of Gazans - for 3 months - by our side is unacceptable

 

TO OUR FAITH LEADERS - and my MP      Will anyone else speak up?

When will other ordinary, decent people break their guilty silence and condemn brutal, barbaric Benjamin sending other ordinary, decent people to the most horrific deaths when they have nothing to do with Hamas and have never hurt anyone in their entire lives?

When will our Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders outrightly condemn this obvious immorality and murder of babies and the elderly stuck in their care homes and shattered hospitals unable to escape the Israeli reign of terror?

Using terror to defeat terror is NOT a noble and decent act.  Nor is it effective.  It simply ups the anti and escalates the hatred, as our side has discovered over the last 75 years of Israel being born out of violence and killings in 1948.

This indiscriminate slaughter of wholly innocent men, women and children breaks every moral code in the book, including the Koran and the Bible that also contains the Hebrew Scriptures.

I understand, some Hamas fighters were killed on 7 October, the day of the Hamas atrocity in Israel.

It is what Russia is doing in Ukraine and what our side is doing in Yemen and has done in countless other countries since the 2nd WW.

BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE for Benjamin Netanyahu to follow our shameful and immoral example.

Tim Weller