Thank you, Nesrine Malik, for articulating so lucidly the righteous anger that so many of us feel for the way in which most of the world’s leaders have simply shrugged their shoulders and abdicated any responsibility for challenging the bloody actions of Israel or the incendiary interventions of the US (Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause, 23 June).
Those of us who still cling to a belief that the actions of democratic countries should be driven by adherence to and promotion of fundamental humanitarian principles have looked on in despair at the impotence of world leaders, which has at times verged on complicity in Israel’s and the US’s actions.
