From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 13 Aug 2025 at 14:12:43 BST, "Pamela"  
 wrote: 
  
 > 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 
  
  
 You've told us that you believe the Palestinian and expatriate nurses and 
 doctors being systematically slaughtered by the IDF are all part-time 
 terrorists; do you believe the small children coming here for reconstructive 
 surgery are all terrorists too? I suppose in your world they must be simply 
 because they are in greater Israel against the will of God? 
  
  
  
  
 > 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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