Will the slaughter in Gaza finally prick the international conscience for firm action?
NOVANEWS
By Stuart Littlewood
“We cannot allow the Israeli government to treat Palestinian lives as inferior to their own, which is what they consistently do,” David Steel tells the House of Lords.
I’d like to share with you the speech by Steel (aka Lord Steel of Aikwood) in a recent House of Lords debate, the motion being “That this House takes note of the situation in the Palestinian Territories”. Steel himself opened proceedings with as good a summing-up of the appalling situation as I have heard anywhere.
Here it is word for word from Hansard:
My Lords, I put in for the ballot for today’s debate just after the terrible slaughter of 62 Palestinians inside the Gaza fence, which included eight children. I should at the outset declare a former interest. I served for seven years as presi...