This is an old news story. Cherie Blair was forced to apologise after saying, of Palestinian suicide bombers, "As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress".
She was criticised from a number of sources.
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, spokesman for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, said: "Whatever Cherie Blair may have meant, there can be no justification for the massacre of non-combatants, such as children on their way to school, by suicide bombers."
I wonder if Dr Jonathan Romain and the others mentioned in the above article would care to repeat the same sentiments about the bombing of UN schools by the Israelis.
It's always wrong until 'our side' does it, isn't it? And so it goes on and on.
Anti-NaziJew writes:
As you may guess from my choice of name, I am one of a relatively small (though there are some signs we are growing) number of Jews who hate what Israel is doing in Gaza and dare to believe that Palestinian children and adults are as valuable as Jewish children and adults. I have actually been looking to see what Dr Romain has to say about Gaza. I found it in Thursday’s Guardian:” it is triply vile of Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, to publicly declare that because Israel had killed Palestinian children, “they have legitimised the murder of their own children”.”No person – and that certainly includes no Jewish person – can fail to be upset at the deaths of children in Gaza. Otherwise we lose our humanity.”This is pious, dishonest rubbish! I am sure that Mahmoud Zahar’s words were said in the anguish of seeing the slaughter in Gaza, even if he truly meant it, do the words of one man justify the Israeli massacre? Lots of Jewish people fail to be upset at, indeed celebrate, the deaths of Palestinian children – like the Jewish ghouls who had picnics and drank Pepsi while watching the bombing. I look at Gaza and see the Warsaw Ghetto. I read the Jewish Chronicle and hear Goebbels.
Hello. Thank you for writing. I did genuinely wonder what Dr Romain would say now, too, and you’re right about his responses as recorded. They seem very mealy-mouthed and evasive. One very depressing aspect of the whole situation is that it seems strong evidence of the inability of the human race to learn from history. If one is going to be outraged by what happened in the holocaust, how can one not also be outraged by what is happening in Gaza?