Richard Sanders

Israel is Raping Palestinians with Dogs: "The soldiers brought in several dogs, one of them urinated on me, one of the dogs then raped me, penetrating my anus in a trained manner when I was being beaten"

Again, opposing Islamist terrorists is not racism. I am opposed to the practitioners and advocates of extremism nihilistic political Islam. Polling shows a very significant proportion of British Muslims sympathises with them and it’s equally repellent to me that you seem happy to count yourself among them. Israel is an amazing start up nation which is one of the leading tech centres on the planet. It has given far more to the world than Palestine. And British Jews are hugely industrious and massive financial contributors. They don’t harbour people who would blow us up. These things matter to some of us when choosing sides. Do I like how Netanyahu has handled it? Of course not. Much of it is disgusting. But I don’t find it difficult to think my interests and those of my country are better aligned to Israel’s than to a people who have repeatedly been offered a state and have made perfect the enemy of the good. Arafat’s decision to reject a state based on 97% of what he wanted is the single worst political decision made anywhere in the world in my lifetime. I suspect you are too young to remember that but it’s my formative experience on this issue and it was a self inflicted tragedy. Your formative experience is looking at TikTok and thinking war is hell. It is. But if there had been TikTok in the Second World War you’d have lost your shit about that too