We Brits (and France) are to blame for the Middle East today, especially from 1917 to 1948. Perfidious Albany, duplicitous Britain all helped the 1948 catastrophe for both Israel and Palestine continuing to this day.
Your voting Labour is fair enough and understandable. For me, I am horrified by Labour's unprincipled, 100% support for the most ever, extreme right wing, ultra-nationalist, Israeli government committing acts leading to genocide, under the guise of a righteous War of Self Defence that never ends. With Labour supporting arms, ammunition to Iniquitous Israel and, fully supporting the American weapons going to Israel, still. I cannot bring myself to vote for any of the parties. Perhaps the SNP if I was in Scotland.
I want a unity, Coalition government to urgently address the climate and resource shortages and other multi-crises.
My first action would be to stop arms, ammunition going from our shores.
LEGACY OF OUR NOT SO GLORIOUS EMPIRE
It is unheard of for ordinary Christian believers to condemn militarism, imperialism, displacement of peoples and to condemn aggression rewarded by the keeping of land as we have allowed the State of Israel to do for 76 years. We don't allow other countries to be rewarded for land grabs but it's fine for our side to do it!
British Thuggery Around the World!:-
The Brits were responsible for the Palestine catastrophe in 1948, Kashmir impasse, the opium wars on China, South Africa war, Bengal famine, Amritsar massacre, solid support for numerous coups and SE Asian wars from our best mate USA, theft of the Chagos Archipelago that is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory and forced displacement of their people, Bloody Sunday in 1972, the 1840s Irish famine ...
The Great Bengal famine of 1770 struck Bengal and Bihar between 1769 and 1770 and affected some 30 million people.
FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II. An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died.
FROM: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study
More recent studies, including those by the journalist Madhushree Mukerjee, have argued the famine was exacerbated by the decisions of Winston Churchill’s wartime cabinet in London.
Mukerjee has presented evidence the cabinet was warned repeatedly that the exhaustive use of Indian resources for the war effort could result in famine, but it opted to continue exporting rice from India to elsewhere in the empire.
Rice stocks continued to leave India even as London was denying urgent requests from India’s viceroy for more than 1m tonnes of emergency wheat supplies in 1942-43. Churchill has been quoted as blaming the famine on the fact Indians were “breeding like rabbits”, and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive.
Mukerjee and others also point to Britain’s “denial policy” in the region, in which huge supplies of rice and thousands of boats were confiscated from coastal areas of Bengal in order to deny resources to the Japanese army in case of a future invasion.
Repentance and reparations should "begin in the House of the Lord" (even the House of Lords where all the Bishops sit and ponder!)
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