America has a double standard

America’s vice president Joe Biden is filmed on BBC’s Newsnight programme condemning Russian president Vladimir Putin’s occupation of Ukraine. “We will never recognise Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea and neither will the world,” he states.

How is it then that the same United States not only accepts the illegal occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, the illegal occupation of the district of East Jerusalem, the illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights and the five-year illegal blockade of 2 million civilians in Gaza?

If the US continues to accept the criminality of illegal settlement in the occupied territories, then why not accept the equally criminal occupation of Crimea? There is clearly one law for Benjamin Netanyahu and another for Mr Putin.

Which is interesting when one realises that there are about 1 million Russians living in Israel. Anthony Bellchambers, UK