This should be a cautionary warning about what the UK’s politicians and media have become.

After Hamas launched its attack on Israel on Saturday (October 7), big-name politicians on both sides of the UK political fence – and across the world – leapt up to voice their support for the apartheid nation that has invaded its neighbour country Palestine, stolen its land, subjugated, tortured and murdered its people. They failed to mention those crucial details. I’ll go into them further in another article.

And (as far as I’m aware) with just one exception, they supported Israel’s military response that targeted civilians, while bemoaning the Hamas attacks for doing the same thing.

Only one elected UK politicians – to my knowledge – called for a peaceful solution:

And he got slated for it:

Mr Tugendhat was referring to an event hosted by Mr Corbyn, to which representatives from Hamas had been invited, when he diplomatically referred to them as “friends”; you don’t get the result you want from other people if you’re antagonistic towards them.

Here’s another one, with a suitable response from a friend of This Site:

Sue Jones hit the nail on the head: “Your alternative is an escalation of war.”

And here’s Tory MP Brendan Clarke-Smith, who provoked a response from This Writer:

I’ve had no response at the time of writing (12.30am, October 9).

The next couple of tweets put the situation in a nutshell:

Worse that all of the above is the fact that a journalist from – I believe – Channel 4 News then pursued Mr Corbyn at the Labour Party Conference and demanded that he explain whether he condemned the actions of Hamas.

He did – very clearly. But he also condemned those of the Israeli military (“ALL attacks are wrong”), and that wasn’t what the reporter wanted to hear. He wanted Mr Corbyn to take a side and, as the commenter below points out, that is stupid and people expecting it are “eejits” (like those mentioned above):

After reading/watching the above, here’s the big question:

What do you think about all this?

Bearing in mind that Israel has an absolute right to exist alongside Palestine, within the borders that were mapped out for it after World War II, and that Palestine also has the same right to existence, and that both nations also have the right to be free of invaders (here’s the UN resolution showing that Palestine has the right to take up arms against such invaders)…

… do you think that our politicians and press have any reason to support Israel against Palestine now?

Or do you think both sides should withdraw and seek a lasting peace, with the possible help of a mediator? Or do you have a better solution to offer?

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