Israel’s war aims prolong suffering
I FULLY agree with Colonel Ian Nason (Guernsey Press, 15 February) that Israel’s policy of forcing Gaza into unconditional surrender has issues. In the Second World War, Roosevelt, without consulting Churchill or Stalin, announced the policy at the Casablanca Conference in 1943.
By this time the Allies already had the upper hand and could have, well before D-Day, negotiated Germany’s surrender.
Most of that war’s 80m. deaths, the destruction, and the suffering, happened after D-Day. Also, if it hadn’t been for unconditional surrender, Guernsey would have been liberated a year earlier.
What America got for all the excess deaths and destruction was a powerful post-war economy with all the old empires tied to American leadership. It also created the Cold War.
If Israel continues to receive military support from America and Britain for its policy of unconditional surrender, it will result in the Palestinian survivors being displaced to Egypt, and thus the hollowing out of Gaza.
The Rev. Linda Le Vasseur (Guernsey Press 13 December) argued that the German occupation of Guernsey 80 years ago was somehow a reason for Guernsey to support Israel’s war aims. However, for Guernsey, if not for Alderney, the Occupation was mild compared to what is currently being done to the innocent civilians of Gaza – and all with the unfortunate moral support of among others, the States of Guernsey.
Peter Winters
9 La Trigale
Alderney
GY9 3TZ