For those of us in Israel who are horrified and ashamed about what our government is doing, we can only share Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s sense of hopelessness (As Gaza’s children are bombed and starved, we watch – powerless. What is it doing to us as a society?, 24 May).
For months now, as a member of the organisation Standing Together, an activist group of Jews and Palestinians, we have demonstrated to end the war. Lobbied politicians. Tried to awake the conscience of those who are only interested in territorial gain. Posted pictures of mutilated and starving Palestinian children. We cannot understand how the democratic world is so slow in responding. Many words of condemnation, but no action.
