Picking up on what you said on Friday

By and large, Arab and Jewish Israelis do indeed get on well with each other in Israel.  But, like us, they are so entitled, so advantaged and sitting pretty compared with Gazans.  They, like us, are like the hymn verse.  "The rich man in his castle".

The problem is the next line, "The poor man at his gate".  The poor man for us is the poor South nations of the world that were not responsible for the most destructive and greedy century humanity has ever seen.

Israel is part of the American led West, part of the very economic greedy/growth nations that have used their wealth - taking what has gone for ever and which we can never get back - to wage war, violence and killings on the poor man at our gate, as well as on ourselves in the rich West.

Our great friend and ally, Israel was born out of war, violence and their people largely wiped out by our Western nations civil war in the 30s and 40s.  No agreement with the Arab nations of which the American/Western backed Israel is in the heart of.  No negotiated settlement.  Simply a quick land grab by the men/women of violence while the going was good.  And,yet more land acquired from violence in the decades that have passed.

Ever since 1948 the Palestinians have been the poor man, literally at the gate of the rich man nicely ensconced in his castle of Israel.  For 75 years, too.  No wonder the believers in violence in Palestine have followed our extremely bad example and our most terrible centuries of violence.

Gaza must be the most densely populated place on earth, an impoverished, subjugated and blockaded people living in a prison camp from which there is no escape, whatsoever.  Unless, you have a foreign passport.

Our centuries of violence is underlined by every political party not wanting a ceasefire but fully supporting our friend's carnage in Gaza.  The three main parties fully support the saturation bombing of Gaza as an appropriate, proportionate response to the October 7 terrorist atrocity.

Only the over 300,000 demonstrators in London, yesterday are doing anything about it.  The pathetic politics of the West means nothing is ever done by our leaders.  Only President Macron has finally spoken out against the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza.