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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

David Lammy and JD Vance fish while Gaza burns

Britain's foreign secretary, David Lammy (right), and the US vice-president, JD Vance, fish in the grounds of Chevening, Kent, on 8 August.
Britain's foreign secretary, David Lammy (right), and the US vice-president, JD Vance, fish in the grounds of Chevening, Kent, on 8 August. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/AFP/Getty Images

The front page of Saturday’s Guardian print edition demonstrated both sides of the genocide in Gaza. The main image showed two western politicians, who could influence their leaders to stop Israel attacking innocent Palestinian people, laughing while they fished for the assembled media cameras, and the main headline was about the planned takeover of Gaza City by the Israeli government (Future of 1m Palestinians now hangs in the balance, 9 August). That will no doubt result in more killing and the likely forced relocation of people from their land – a war crime.

History will record both men’s participation in this man-made human disaster by the Israeli government, but will either of them actually care? I don’t think so.
Stuart Finegan
Lewes, East Sussex

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