Wen
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The letter - text reads Sir, It is perfectly possible, and reasonable, to condemn in the most outright terms Hamas’s brutally calculated attack on October 7, 2023, while also criticising the scale and nature of Israel’s response, as well as its continued seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank. What is being criticised is not Israel’s Jewish character and identity but its refusal to offer Palestinians the same respect it demands for itself. As we in Ireland, north and south, have learnt all too painfully and imperfectly, it is that failure to respect difference which all too often lies at the heart of conflict. Ireland’s boycott on its own will not change that picture in the Middle East, but Israel and its supporters are misleading themselves if they dismiss it as a sectarian gesture. It is much more serious than that, a symptom of a widening rift between the way Israel sees itself and how it is perceived by the rest of the democratic world. Tom Kelly Aghadowey, Northern Ireland
The letter - text reads Sir, It is perfectly possible, and reasonable, to condemn in the most outright terms Hamas’s brutally calculated attack on October 7, 2023, while also criticising the scale and nature of Israel’s response, as well as its continued seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank. What is being criticised is not Israel’s Jewish character and identity but its refusal to offer Palestinians the same respect it demands for itself. As we in Ireland, north and south, have learnt all too painfully and imperfectly, it is that failure to respect difference which all too often lies at the heart of conflict. Ireland’s boycott on its own will not change that picture in the Middle East, but Israel and its supporters are misleading themselves if they dismiss it as a sectarian gesture. It is much more serious than that, a symptom of a widening rift between the way Israel sees itself and how it is perceived by the rest of the democratic world. Tom Kelly Aghadowey, Northern Ireland
The letter - text reads Sir, It is perfectly possible, and reasonable, to condemn in the most outright terms Hamas’s brutally calculated attack on October 7, 2023, while also criticising the scale and nature of Israel’s response, as well as its continued seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank. What is being criticised is not Israel’s Jewish character and identity but its refusal to offer Palestinians the same respect it demands for itself. As we in Ireland, north and south, have learnt all too painfully and imperfectly, it is that failure to respect difference which all too often lies at the heart of conflict. Ireland’s boycott on its own will not change that picture in the Middle East, but Israel and its supporters are misleading themselves if they dismiss it as a sectarian gesture. It is much more serious than that, a symptom of a widening rift between the way Israel sees itself and how it is perceived by the rest of the democratic world. Tom Kelly Aghadowey, Northern Ireland
Wen
@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago
The letter - text reads Sir, It is perfectly possible, and reasonable, to condemn in the most outright terms Hamas’s brutally calculated attack on October 7, 2023, while also criticising the scale and nature of Israel’s response, as well as its continued seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank. What is being criticised is not Israel’s Jewish character and identity but its refusal to offer Palestinians the same respect it demands for itself. As we in Ireland, north and south, have learnt all too painfully and imperfectly, it is that failure to respect difference which all too often lies at the heart of conflict. Ireland’s boycott on its own will not change that picture in the Middle East, but Israel and its supporters are misleading themselves if they dismiss it as a sectarian gesture. It is much more serious than that, a symptom of a widening rift between the way Israel sees itself and how it is perceived by the rest of the democratic world. Tom Kelly Aghadowey, Northern Ireland
The letter - text reads Sir, It is perfectly possible, and reasonable, to condemn in the most outright terms Hamas’s brutally calculated attack on October 7, 2023, while also criticising the scale and nature of Israel’s response, as well as its continued seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank. What is being criticised is not Israel’s Jewish character and identity but its refusal to offer Palestinians the same respect it demands for itself. As we in Ireland, north and south, have learnt all too painfully and imperfectly, it is that failure to respect difference which all too often lies at the heart of conflict. Ireland’s boycott on its own will not change that picture in the Middle East, but Israel and its supporters are misleading themselves if they dismiss it as a sectarian gesture. It is much more serious than that, a symptom of a widening rift between the way Israel sees itself and how it is perceived by the rest of the democratic world. Tom Kelly Aghadowey, Northern Ireland
The letter - text reads Sir, It is perfectly possible, and reasonable, to condemn in the most outright terms Hamas’s brutally calculated attack on October 7, 2023, while also criticising the scale and nature of Israel’s response, as well as its continued seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank. What is being criticised is not Israel’s Jewish character and identity but its refusal to offer Palestinians the same respect it demands for itself. As we in Ireland, north and south, have learnt all too painfully and imperfectly, it is that failure to respect difference which all too often lies at the heart of conflict. Ireland’s boycott on its own will not change that picture in the Middle East, but Israel and its supporters are misleading themselves if they dismiss it as a sectarian gesture. It is much more serious than that, a symptom of a widening rift between the way Israel sees itself and how it is perceived by the rest of the democratic world. Tom Kelly Aghadowey, Northern Ireland
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