Two wrongs can never make a right

“TWO wrongs can never make a right” – that’s what my dad always taught me when at school, and it applies even more so now, when it comes to the horrendous atrocity inflicted upon Israel by Hamas, with yet another horrendous atrocity inflicted by Israel on both Hamas and innocent Palestinian civilians.

What puzzles me is why a modern democratic country such as Israel has so readily given up all the moral high ground, which it so firmly held after the October 7 massacre, by deciding to use its unopposed mighty airforce and enormous bombing power to reduce vast areas of Gaza to rubble, leaving tens of thousands of dead, dying, and injured Palestinians.

Also, why is it both sides of our parliament – not my Green Party nor the SNP mind you – have been so reluctant to call these ‘unproportional’ Israel and USsupported reactions breaches of international humanitarian and warfare laws, which they so obviously are?

Lastly, why on earth couldn’t

Israel do the right moral retaliation, using it’s vastly superior military might in every facet, by eliminating Hamas through an enormous ground and underground tunnels invasion, not by relentless blanket bombing which is bound to harm residential blocks, hospitals, schools, and vital infrastructure? Surely, Israel’s military might, with all its latest high tech equipment – much supplied by the US and UK – could have done this without excessive loss of soldiers and, most importantly, for its own future defence and wellbeing?

Adopting this alternative strategy also would have kept moral and legal high grounds, as well as avoiding the now global anti-Jews backlash, plus setting a big barrier to hopes of any future peaceful two-state solution to this 76-year-old Israel versus Palestine cancer.

I feel ashamed of our government’s and the opposition’s application of such immoral double standards in their treatment of Israel, when contrasted with Putin’s bullying airstrike bombings of Ukraine’s residential and public services facilities.

Alan Debenham Taunton, Somerset