OBSCENE AND INEXCUSABLE

The latest news from Gaza - 30 children dead after another onslaught by the Israelis - is an obscenity. Over 600 Palestinians have been killed in the last 10 days. To blame Hamas , as the Israeli Govt is doing, is disgusting and despicable cant.
Gordon Brown is right to say this is the "darkest moment" yet in the recent conflict but it's therefore time to say enough is enough and that Israel must immediately stop its murder of innocent civilians. Like millions of others, I'm appalled at this latest outrage in the name of some spurious power struggle.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR?

As the bombs and rockets continue to rain in the Middle East, all that talk just a week ago of peace and goodwill rings more than a little hollow. Watching the appalling scenes in Gaza is enough to make one despair at man's inhumanity to man. But at least people round the world are registering their horror at the carnage and calling for a ceasefire now. It is utterly horrendous that Israel continues this obscene onslaught on a country wherem as Jeremy Corbyn points out, the vast majority of people are struggling to even survive.
The Govt has announced some £6million in humanitarian aid for Palestine which is good news but of course it will not get through until the killing stops. That is why all of us must do what we can in protest - be that braving the cold to wave banners in Hebden Bridge, going to London or Manchester for the national demonstrations on Saturday, or even just thinking beyond our immediate concerns to imagine how horrendous life must be in Gaza at the moment for all the Palestinians .
It is hard to imagine this will be a happy New Year for any of them.If you want to join in any of the demonstrations , details are on the stopthewarcoalition website....