This the opening paragraph of an article in the Guardian today written by Sally Rooney. It’s about Palestine Action which is trying to stop the genocide. The majority of the British people want action to stop the genocide.
Writing on Sunday, the Palestine Solidarity Committee reported that in the previous 48 hours, 200 Palestinians had been killed and over 1000 injured. Starving Palestinians are being lured to food distribution sites and then killed.
How do we do it? How do we get Starmer to change course and cut off ties with Israel when we have tried every peaceful method we can think of - writing to our MPs, demonstrating, writing to the papers. There has been a demo in London every month since the war on Gaza began. Last Saturday 350,000 people held a peaceful march through London.
Did you know that:
- the UK airforce flies reconnaissance planes over Gaza
- Starmer allows Israeli planes to use the UK air base in Cyprus
- the UK army train officers of the Israeli Defence Force
- the UK supplies F35 parts for war planes which Israel use
The U.K. government knows the majority agrees with the marchers, and that their position - complicity with Israel - is a fringe position, out of step with the majority of public opinion.
I am at a loss. Of course, Palestine Action tried something else (as above) and they have been called terrorists and are being threatened with being made a proscribed organisation.
I have just written to my MP again, but I told Dave yesterday I felt like chaining myself to the railings of Downing Street.
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