Alan Carmichael, Glasgow.
IDF are the terrorists
As I sign a petition to allow baby food into Gaza (with no hope it will make a difference) and watch coverage of yet more atrocities committed by the Israeli Defence Force, the British Establishment continues to try to squeeze the last drops of faux rage out of the comments of a couple of musicians.
Hundreds of unarmed Palestinians are shot every week queuing for food because the Israeli state backed by the US closed down 400 food distribution centres run by experienced independent agencies and replaced them with four distribution centres. A reputable Israeli newspaper has reported that soldiers were told to use live ammunition to help control crowds. This is the Hunger Games added to the destruction of all schools, hospitals and homes.
The rap duo at Glastonbury were wrong to shout for anyone to be killed. They should have been shouting "The IDF is a terrorist organisation". There is no other way you could describe an organisation that has carried out the atrocities it is guilty of.
But British senior politicians and sections of the media want to divert attention from the horrifying reality with the trivia of paint on planes and music festival chants.
And let us expose the antisemitism claim for what it really is. It has been used for years to bully people who criticise the actions of the Israeli state. It no longer works. Too many people see the reality and those who continue to use it need to question their own ethics. We know that there are many honourable people of Jewish ethnicity in and outwith Israel who are also strong critics of the government of that state.
Isobel Lindsay, Biggar.
What did Benjamin Netanyahu know in advance of the October 7 attack?
What did Benjamin Netanyahu know in advance of the October 7 attack? (Image: PA)
• Otto Inglis (Letters, July 1) is correct in reminding us of atrocities committed at that other music festival on October 7, 2023.
What he chooses to ignore is the apparent complicity of Prime Minister Netanyahu, a situation now generally accepted, even by many of his Israeli subjects. Over a period of weeks he is known to have received information from frontier guards who saw, and heard through increased wireless activity, the necessary extensive preparations for the attack. Information is also said to have come from Egypt. In spite of the repeated warnings, frontier defences at that crucial point were not strengthened.
The Prime Minister's craven response, which incidentally involved betrayal of the hostages, appears to have been made in relation to a number of current personal and political problems. But, from a longer perspective, the vastly exaggerated retaliation and unprecedented slaughter in modern times of thousands of innocent civilians, especially the children who would have formed a future Palestinian Gaza, helped to further his personal aim as founder of a greater Israel.
Further proof of the real situation on October 7 and determination to distance themselves is provided by the resignations, soon after the event, of three top generals and the head of Shin Bhet, on the basis of "not on my watch."
Why does our own Prime Minister, after those months of slaughter, not have the courage to join so many of us in saying the same?
Murdo Grant, Rosemarkie.
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