OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER SIR KEIR STARMER

22 May 2025 Dear Prime Minister Starmer The recent joint declaration regarding Israel by the UK, France and Canada is totally one sided, it is as if no cognizance has been taken of the cause of the problem, the unprecedented pogrom carried out without warning from the Gaza Strip on Israeli civilians by Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad terrorists. Over a period of 2000 years, Jews have had to put up with such pogroms in Europe, the Maghreb and Iraq (The Farhud, June 1941) without being able to defend themselves, now they are able, the UK sees it fit to condemn them and effect even more sanctions- is the UK so blind or is it plain hatred? HM Government abandoned the Mandate for Palestine in 1947 and should refrain from acting as it was still dealing with the Jewish Agency and not a sovereign independent state, repeating the old mantra Israel has a right to defend itself – every sovereign independent state has the right to defend itself to the best of their ability and does not require authorization from HM Government or anybody else!. What is concerning is it has been observed that whilst ICBM’s are fired at Israel population centers from 2000 km away by the Houthis in Yemen- so far there have been 40 plus attacks, including two within the last 24 hours, HM Government and its allies in France and Canada have not issued any similar warnings to the Houthis or their masters in Iran. Nor indeed has this been raised by HM Government in the UN Security Council – why was nothing done by HM Government? The BBC does not even bother to report such attacks so the UK public is in the dark of what is happening in reality but it ensures that the lies about the situation in Gaza are promulgated that resulted in the Joint Declaration. Due cognizance must be given that these attacks are akin to ICBM’s being fired at London from the tip of Italy, Greece, or Ukraine or by Norway from within the Arctic Circle. I am sure, that in such circumstances HM Government would not sit idly by and would take full retaliatory military action together with their allies, just as was done when Nazi Germany bombed Coventry in WWII and no humanitarian aid was supplied to the enemy civilians subsequently. HM Government has never acted against the Houthis militarily to prevent these ICBM attacks on Israel, but together with the USA only acted against the Houthis to prevent attacks by them on international civilian shipping. Under the circumstances can HM Government advise why no such joint declarations have been made against the Houthis and why as a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council HM Government has not raised this issue in the UNSC?

A message to UK Foreign Secretary

Hello Mr Hague,

It goes without sayng that you must have heard about the family in Itamar, Samaria Israel, who were wiped out by the very people you feel such a "sympatica" with.

Where's the outpouring of grief from the media, where's the message of condolence from our "head of foreign diplomacy?" - is there anything you can say to justify the slitting of a baby's throat, the stabbing of two other children in their sleep together with the killing of their parents?

Should the "boot be on the other foot" Mr Hague, I am sure the baying for even more Jewish lives and finger shaking by the rest of the Jew-Hating world be blood curdling.

I expect the arab world will approve of the £2000. this murderer will receive for this unholy deed as with other payouts in similar situations; this is the mentality of the very body of people you expect to be given even even more land in Israel. Could you live with these "beings?" Could you live each day expecting a rocket, a bomb, a knife in the back, a rock on the head Mr Hague? - or perhaps find your trees, farms and crops destroyed by them also, I doubt it but you expect the Israelis to apportion the land they have poured so much blood into, the land that was taken before and which they never left of their own accord and to which,after so many years, manage to return, yet had to buy it back, paying exhorbitant fees per acre than the richest land in America. Each Jewish household world-wide had a box in which spare change would be collected and this, Mr Hague is what was used to re- purchase the land of Israel which was left a dust-bowl by the Arab squatters.

If you condone this situation and all the others that are NOT publicised accordingly in favour of Jews and Israel, then I don't hold out much hope for this land you consider to be "free thinking, diplomatic and impartial."

You know, Golda Meir once said I don't hate the people who kill our children, I just hate them for making us kill theirs." - is this the next step to be taken or should it be the "stiff upper lip" English attitude and "turn the other cheek!" - Mr Hague, Jews have turned the other cheek so many times, after so many punches, that it is starting to feel like a massage!
Beryl