Why won’t the PM criticise Israel for the wars that it has orchestrated? - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Daniel Vulliamy, Kilham.
Your front page headline this weekend, 'PM "fed up" with Trump and Putin', should serve as an eye-opener for us all.
It is all very well, and certainly appropriate, to point fingers at both Trump and Putin. But the wars in Iran and Lebanon were both orchestrated and largely led by Netanyahu and Israel. So why does our Prime Minister not mention them?
Keir Starmer has supported Israel's genocide with weapons and reconnaissance flights, condoned clear Apartheid on the West Bank, approved the deliberate targetting and starvation of Palestinian children in the name of ‘self-defence’, blocked United Nations efforts to end the hostilities and promoted restrictions on our rights to protest along with absurd allegations that the attempted destruction of war weapons represents terrorism.
Starmer's silence on the ultimate responsibility lying with the government of Israel and its leader grows louder and more shameful by the day. It also assists the disappearance of Gaza and the West Bank from public discourse. It is well known that Israel makes significant donations to Labour Party MPs, but that should never justify silence in the face of such substantial wrongs.
And I write as a Jew, son of a Holocaust Survivor.