A Response to Anneliese Dodds MP on Gaza
JVL Introduction
Jamie Stern-Weiner wrote to his MP expressing his concerns about the war on Gaza. She responded with the anodyne response that has become standard issue, Labour Party fare from Starmer downwards.
Stern-Weiner responds with restrained anger at Labour Party’s ability to say anything except what matters i.e. a call for a ceasefire now:
“Morally, your position amounts to granting Israel the “right” to forcibly encage a civilian population—including more than one million children—from birth unto death in a space that, according to the United Nations, Israel has rendered “unliveable”.”
You can read the Anneliese Dodds letter to which this is a response at the foot of the post below.
RK
This article was originally published by Jamie Stern-Weiner's blog on Tue 14 Nov 2023. Read the original here.
A Response to Anneliese Dodds MP's anodyne position on Gaza
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Jamie`s points are absolutely right, but the Labour Party has steadfastly stood by the Zionist entity since its inception. Other than the brief period under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party has always been a zionist party. Dodds response comes as no surprise. Other than a handfull of dissenting Labour MP`s they are all effectively complicit in the ongoing genocide.
Well said, Jamie.
What do “humanitarian pauses” mean? Some food, water and medical supplies would be allowed in, so Palestinians can patch up their wounds and get a bite to eat before the killing resumes, so at least they won’t die on an empty stomach?
Nothing less than a complete ceasefire can suffice.
PS Dodds says she “may not be able to provide a fulsome response” to emails on this subject. Will politicians PLEASE learn the meaning of “fulsome!” It means excessively or insincerely complimentary or flattering. Is that what she meant?
Using ‘humanitarian emergency’ to describe the situation in Gaza, as Dodds does, is sickening, this is not a natural diasaster like a flood or earthquake. And what’s the point in anodyne ‘calls for illegal settlement activity to end’ when illegal settlement is an enshrined part of the Zionist project?
Great article, thank you Jamie.
Dodd’s letter, is quite pathetic, it’s saying the Genocide needs to carry on but a pause is needed for humanitarian reasons, it’s one long waffle. She says the Words “Israel has the right to self-defence and to degrade the capabilities of Hamas to carry out such horrendous attacks”. Pushing for the Lie that Hamas is the aggressor and Israel the victim.
What about the 75 years of suffering from murders, their farms and villages being bulldozed, the beating or killing of those that try to stop them and all the land theft and illegal settlements, then there’s Gaza which has been turned into the world’s largest concentration camp and is regularly bombed killing innocent civilians.
Dodds needs a reality check.