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The British ambassador and Gaza

Reactions to letter from British ambassador to Ireland

Thu Dec 21 2023 - 01:00

Sir, – I find the letter (December 20th) from the British ambassador to Ireland reprehensible coming from the ambassador of a country that is supplying arms which are used in the killing of thousands of the innocent in Gaza. – Yours, etc,

PAUL DORAN,

Dublin 22.

Sir, – I found it difficult to read the British ambassador’s letter with its lack of sympathy regarding the continuing daily slaughter of innocent men, women and children in Gaza.

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His language is so far removed from the grief, the suffering, the loss, the spread of disease, the lack of amenities, the loss of homes, primary schools, secondary schools, universities, hospitals, places of worship and, of course, fathers, mothers, children, et al.

I cannot imagine for a second the pain of this enduring tragedy and yet the ambassador writes in the most benign diplomatic language that only serves his government’s intangible life-saving action in the defence of the innocent.

This includes Britain’s abstention from the UN Security Council’s recent resolution. On October 24th, 1945 the United Nations charter was passed.

The words of that charter should move us when we think of them.

It says: We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our life-time has brought untold sorrow to mankind.”

All war represents a failure of diplomacy and yet it is so easy for diplomats from around the world to write well-crafted missives which are void of substance and written only to assuage their own lack of action as the slaughter of the innocent continues. – Le meas,

DONAL Mac CIONNAITH,

Béal Feirste.