38 Degrees' campaign to e-mail Philip Hammond MP

Philip Hammond is the new Foreign Secretary (he succeeded William Hague in the recent reshuffle) and campaigning group 38 Degrees have urged their members to email him about how he might approach the fighting in Israel and Palestine. 

My email was short and to the point and reflects what I believe is the main issue now, that is to remove the extreme ignorance that many UK residents have about Palestine:
"Please use your office to press for Israel to abide by all the UN Resolutions that it has ignored for decades and which the UK government generally turns a blind eye to."

For many years there has been blind support for Israel no matter what it does. This is partly due to a lingering sympathy with the plight of European Jews in wartime Europe. Things have changed in seventy years. As Jews often say, and quite rightly, they did not organise the Holocaust. If one considers things for a moment and contemplated what the world would say if any country other than Israel engaged in such enormous destruction from the air, sea and land on their neighbour, the extent to which they are given free rein becomes clear.

Until the creation of Israel most Jews who lived in Palestine did so in peace.
 
You can write your own email to Philip Hammond here.