Letter
Outside interference
Jeff Kildea admits to being “an outsider with no skin in the game”, yet nonetheless feels qualified to profess his criticism and solutions to the centuries old geopolitical and religious conflict in the Middle East.
The most important lesson I learned from my visits to the region (Israel and the occupied territories) was from a local who, in essence, said: you don’t live here, you don’t live with war, terrorism, threats every day, be it from right-wing settler extremists or Hamas terrorists. If you want to decide our future, then live here.
This was said by a left-voting Jewish person who owned a business with his Palestinian friend and colleague, a story unlikely to be reported on.
The only resolution is one determined by the Palestinian and Israeli people, as happened in Northern Ireland, not from those living peacefully a half a world away.
— Simon Tatz from Newport