From: uklm@permabulator.33mail.com 
  
 On 13:21  12 Aug 2025, Roger Hayter said: 
 > On 12 Aug 2025 at 10:57:19 BST, "Pamela" 
 >  wrote: 
 >> On 19:57  11 Aug 2025, Roger Hayter said: 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> For a fanatical supporter of the Israeli campaign to expel, 
 >>> slaughter or starve the remaining Palestinians in the occupied 
 >>> territories a little loss of civil liberties in this country may 
 >>> well be price very well worth paying. 
 >> 
 >> How does one prioritise which unfortunate group to help at the cost 
 >> of the welfare of our own citizens? 
 >> 
 >> The choice could be made out of slavery in Chad, bonded labourers in 
 >> Congo, war crimes in Eritrea, militants in Gaza, defenders in 
 >> Ukraine, genocided Uyghurs, etc. The most deserving might be those 
 >> least able to be heard. 
 >> 
 >> Choosing on the basis of perpetrators most scolded by the woke or 
 >> most disliked by Western Marxists is not very sound. 
 > 
 > Perhaps choose those we sell arms to, and employ our aircraft daily 
 > in providing intelligence and defence to? Rather than groups on whose 
 > fate the government has little or no influence. 
  
 Realpolitik is not as reductionist as that. 
  
 If it were then Saudi Arabia might at the top of your list for their 
 war against Yemen supported by British arms but I still don't believe 
 we're morally obliged to admit Yemeni terrorists to these shores or 
 look after them. Same for British support for Sierra Leone or Iraq, 
 etc. Gazan militants come somewhere near the bottom of the list. 
  
 > The same could be said at the time of the Biafra war, we were 
 > actively supporting the Nigerian government, making it more our 
 > business than sundry other atrocities. 
  
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