Interviewed (July 28) following the protest demo against the murder of innocent Gazan women and children by Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli war machine, John Lewicki said that the West was “partly” responsible for the situation – surely the understatement of the century.

Following the crushing defeat of Britain by the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915, Britain persuaded the Arabs to take up arms against their Ottoman overlords in return for an independent homeland that would stretch from the Mediterranean to the Iranian frontier.

Cheated at the Versailles Treaty in 1919, the Middle East was parcelled up into artificial states (like Syria, Jordan etc) headed by puppet monarchs answerable to their British and French masters.

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 A vigil for Gaza was held outside Carfax Tower last month

Later, in Hitler’s Germany, many Germans believed the lie that Jews were a sub-human species whose avarice sucked the blood out of the German nation.

With admirers of Hitler in France and Britain (including the Duke of Windsor), 25,000 escaping Jews headed for Palestine where they were enlisted by the British colonial power to police the Arabs. Post-1945 Holocaust survivors were smuggled into Palestine after being refused entry to Britain and America.

A war-weary Britain bowed out of insurgent Palestine in 1947, only for the US to step in and give the Jewish settlers the financial and military backing they needed to turn a reactionary, biblical dream into reality. Since then Israel has been the West’s policeman in the Middle East exacting a high price from the Jewish population and creating intolerable suffering for the Arabs.

Need I say more?

Jonathan Saunders

Ramsay Road

Oxford

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