KAUFMAN ON GAZA

Gerald Kaufman, MP for Manchester Gorton, has been around since I was too young to vote. He would never describe himself as being on the left of the Labour Party but he is one of the best constituency MPs there is - and on Palestine his stance has been admirable.
Last night he spoke at a benefit for medical aid in Gaza and this is what he said:
"The slaughter we have seen in Gaza is only the latest blood soaked episode of many. In Gaza they have not got sewage, they have not gotmedical supplies or hospitals, they have not got schools to go to.
"It is for us to demonstrate that what is going on in the Middle East can't be excused by saying Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Many of my family were killed in the Holocaust. They did not die to provide cover for Israeli Jews to kill Palestinians."
"What we have to do is to give a voice to the people who care until Justice is brought to the people of Palestine.
"Nobody believed that apartheid would go in South Africa. But it did go. Now Apartheid in Palestine has to go. And it will go if we work for it to go. The erection of an Apartheid state can not go on. "