‘You have all the independence of a snarling dog on a leash but without the charm’
Chris Ward was parachuted in as candidate for Brighton Kemptown in the General Election. Out went Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the equivocating ex-socialist MP.
Not one Labour Party member voted for Ward. His only qualification was that he was a friend and crony of Starmer. Therefore when I sent him a letter about Gaza I expected no better from him than the letter which I copy below.
However I also decided that it was time to respond to his turgid and repetitive prose, dishonest in every strained syllable. Chris Ward was a political lobbyist in Hanbury Strategy a corporate lobbying group. Keir Hardie must be turning in his grave at what his namesake has done to the Labour Party.
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Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Dear Chris Ward,
The only reason that you were selected to stand at the last election, in place of the existing MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, was that you were a crony of Keir Starmer. I would no more expect an independent opinion from you than I would expect it from a snarling dog on a leash. Except that you have less charm than the average Rottweiler. You are a human dictaphone ready to mouth whatever trite phrases Starmer pours into your ear holes at any time.
Israel is, at this moment, starving and massacring 400,000 people in northern Gaza. It has refused to allow the entry of food, fuel and water and it has barred 6 international medical NGOs. It has destroyed every hospital in the north of Gaza and virtually every medical facility in the whole of Gaza.
In Poland and Russia a similar policy, ‘death by hunger’ was pursued by the Nazis and the Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank. Israel’s behaviour ranks with the worst atrocities of the Nazis. It has just declared UNWRA, the UN organisation responsible for feeding thousands of Palestinian refugees, a terrorist organisation and banned it from working to alleviate the famine in Gaza.
Puppets like you can only repeat mindless, sanctimonious phrases about Israel being under threat as some form of justification. Nazi Germany also claimed that Poland was a threat as did Britain and America when they invaded Iraq in 2003.
On Tuesday 93 Palestinians were killed, including 25 children, and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya. This was one of a series of never ending massacres.
All you can say is that the government is right to continuing to grant 92% of arms export licenses. You are an accomplice to genocide. Every single bullet should be embargoed, instead we are providing parts for Israeli fighter jets in order that they can commit more atrocities and massacres.
The Steve Bell cartoon banned by Guardian Editor, Kath Viner. Bell was the Guardian’s prize winning cartoonist who Viner sacked. Razan al Najjar was a Palestinian medic, aged 21, murdered by an Israeli sniper in 2018 as part of the Great Return.
You say you want to see ‘an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon’ yet you continue to support the supply of weapons that ensure that there will be no ceasefire. You are nothing but a tiresome dishonest hypocrite.
There is only one way to call a halt to the genocide, a word that seems to be missing from your vocabulary and that is to sanction all trade with Israel. Israel needs to be subject to the same sanctions regime as South Africa was.
When it comes to Ukraine you have no hesitation in supporting sanctions against Russia but when it comes to Israel you say you don’t agree ‘all exports’ should be terminated. Why? Because you support ‘Israel’s right to self defence’ which in practice means its right to commit genocide.
If you really believe the murder of thousands of civilians, including 16,000+ children, is acceptable for an occupying power, then you are sick in the head. It is likely when the carnage is finally over that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will be dead thanks to monsters like you. All in the name of eradicating the ‘terrorist’ Hamas when the real terrorists wear Israeli military uniform.
Israel has no more right to self-defence than Nazi Germany did when it occupied France, Poland and Czechoslovakia, to name but three countries. It is the occupied people and they alone who have an international law right to self-defence not the aggressor. Every occupied people have the right to self-defence against their occupiers. Why do you find this concept so difficult to understand? Is it a mental or political block that you suffer from?
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank are illegal. Israel should therefore get out of Gaza without any preconditions.
Alon Misrahi – committed suicide
You talk about the ‘appalling and sickening attacks on October 7th’ but I notice that such adjectives are not reserved for the actions of the Israeli military, the torture camps, the mass graves and the shooting of doctors. To give but one example CNN recounted the suicide of an Israeli soldier, Alon Misrahi and the experiences of his friend Zaken:
In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”
“Everything squirts out,” he added.
It wasn’t of course ‘terrorists’ that were run over but women and children. There are countless testimonies to the fact that Israel is burying its victims alive and deliberately shooting children in the head.
When Israel began the attack on Gaza its Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant declared that ‘we are fighting human animals and will act accordingly’. In a speech in Poznań (Posen) on 4 October 1943, Heinrich Himmler, who presided over the Final Solution, praised the Nazis as ‘the only people in the world who have a decent attitude toward animals’ and who ‘will also take a decent towards these human animals’ referring to the Jews.
CNN, being another pro-Zionist propaganda outlet, covered the story not from the point of view of the victims but the perpetrators. SS men too were traumatised by their role in mass shootings. The SS even established a mental hospital in the East to take care of them. That was the reason that the Nazis introduced the gas chambers. But imagine if the press were to cover the holocaust from the perspective of what effect it had on the SS. This is the sublime logic of the war criminal.
Let us also be clear about October 7. 1139 Israelis were killed, one-third of them soldiers and the majority of the remainder by Israel itself as a result of putting the Hannibal Doctrine into operation. But 1139 was a fraction of the deaths that Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere have suffered. In Operation Protective Edge in 2014 twice as many Palestinians were killed without a murmur from pipsqueaks like yourself.
You of course are silent about Palestinian suffering because like your controller Starmer, you are nothing if not an imperialist and racist.
Your ignorance is only matched by your malevolence. Israel is an apartheid society, just as South Africa was. It was established by ethnic cleansing in 1948 and is now ethnically cleansing Gaza whilst shills like you emit warm honeyed words of concern. Israel has always been the aggressor in the region and it is not Israel but the Palestinians and the Arab people who need the right of self-defence.
You speak of the two-state solution. This nothing but a cover for continued colonisation of Palestinian land. In case you hadn’t noticed the Israeli Knesset voted by 68-9 in July to support a resolution opposing two-states. What is it about that which you don’t understand? A two-state solution would simply mean another form of apartheid with a Palestinian bantustan.
In 2018 Israel passed as a basic (constitutional) law The Jewish Nation State Law which declared that Israel is a state, not of its own citizens but only of its Jewish citizens. In other words Israel is officially an apartheid state. In the words of Benjamin Netanyahu, its Prime Minister,
“Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the basic nationality law we passed, Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and only it.
When Europe’s Jews, including members of my family, were exterminated in the fires of Auschwitz and Treblinka, people could at least claim that they were ignorant of what was happening. Today, with the Internet and modern means of communication there is no excuse whatsoever for pretending that what is happening in Gaza is not genocide. You are therefore nothing more than an apologist for war criminals and people should understand you as such.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy, along with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are war criminals just as the Nazi war criminals who were executed at Nuremberg in 1947. Apologists for genocide like you should be removed from parliament and given lengthy prison sentences for justifying genocide. You are, Chris Ward, a despicable human being who would, 80 years ago, have turned a blind eye to the Holocaust and supported, like Labour’s Herbert Morrison, keeping out Jewish refugees.
My only consolation is that after the next election you will no longer be an MP. I would prefer a genuine Tory to a Starmer poodle.
Tony Greenstein
Letter from Chris Ward MP Justifying Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Dear Tony,
Thank you for writing to me about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
I agree that the situation in Gaza is intolerable. I want to assure you that I continue to support an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon, which sees hostages released, civilians protected, and aid flow in. This is the only way to alleviate the heart-breaking suffering we are witnessing on a daily basis, and I am acutely aware that there can be no military solution to this dreadful conflict.
I am also concerned about the flow of aid being allowed into Gaza, and I support the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary’s calls to Israel to guarantee support for those in desperate need on the ground. The Government is working tirelessly to help resolve this and secure a diplomatic breakthrough, which ultimately can see a peaceful two-state solution, including the formal recognition of Palestine. An immediate cease-fire is the first step to achieving this.
Regarding the export of arms to Israel, the Government’s recent decision to suspend certain arms exports to Israel – including those that could be used in Gaza – followed a careful review of Israel’s compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL), given grave concerns about the conduct and consequences of the war for civilians. I support this, but I do not agree that all exports to Israel should be halted. Israel faces a number of extremely hostile regional and local threats – as witnessed by the appalling and sickening attacks on October 7th – and I support Israel’s right to self-defence.
I believe that the Government is taking the right approach by assessing each export license against IHL while supporting Israel’s right to self-defence. I hope this approach, allied with strong diplomatic pressure on both sides to reach a ceasefire, can help lead to the peaceful and immediate cessation of violence we all want to see.
Best wishes,
Chris Ward
