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Blame isn’t a way forward
CND and Stop the War Coalition have organised many Palestinian solidarity events in Manchester and elsewhere in the country recently It’s great that they are so active in their support for the people of Gaza (and, of course, completely understandable), but I can’t help thinking that pointing fingers of blame squarely at Israel is not helping anything
This conflict stretches back decades and neither side is completely innocent It is such a tangled web of events that, in this situation, concentrating on who did what to whom gets nobody anywhere It is like two siblings who have bitterly fought all their lives – the blame is endless and ultimately, if they have any chance of moving forwards and getting on, they need to put the past behind them Both sides have to make concessions and both sides have to change their behaviour
Jess Pasteiner & Sarah Freeman
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