THE war against defenseless people of Gaza is still on. The death toll is over 600 now!

I will quote some world leaders and what they say about Palestine and the nature of the conflict. Perhaps these quotations will be useful to the reader.

“Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby trapped their corpses. Irgun, together with the terrorist Stern gang, massacred 254 Palestinians in 1948 in the village of Deir Yassin” – Gerald Kaufman, British MP for Manchester.

“Tel Aviv, when you are serious about peace, call us.” – Former Secretary of the US Jim Baker.

“And we journalists are writing like performing bears, repeating all the clichés we’ve used for the past 40 years. The killing of Mr Jabari was a ‘targeted attack’, it was a ‘surgical air strike’ like the Israeli ‘surgical air strikes’ which killed almost 17,000 civilians in Lebanon in 1982, the 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, in 2006, or the 1,300 Palestinians, most of them civilians, in Gaza in 2008-9.” – British journalist, Robert Fisk.

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.” – Gandhi.

Axmed Bahjad, Fleet Street, Swindon