IRISH ex-MEP Clare Daly said recently that “humanity’s future is up for grabs here.” She perfectly articulated the despair, frustration and horror that ordinary people feel at the tone-deafness of their governments in the face of the first genocide that has been played out minute by minute in full public view, in Gaza. No-one can even pretend they do not know what is going on.
It should be no surprise to anyone that many of the countries that spoke out first and loudest (Scotland being the first of the four nations of the UK, followed by Ireland and Wales) – were those smaller countries or those, like South Africa, that had their own recent history of oppression or had neighbouring governments that treated them as pseudo colonies. No wonder at all that they should instantly recognise the underlying attitude of “might is right”.
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As the UK under Starmer and the US under Biden continue to sell the arms that have killed more than 2% of the entire child population of Gaza, we have let not just Gaza down but the whole of humanity.
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
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