Peter Reynolds

I have resisted the urge to write about Israel over the past year because it is so painful. Every day I am moved to greater outrage, often to the point of tears. Never has such evil persisted on this planet while it pretends to be a civilised democracy and is shamefully supported by the USA, UK and EU.

I have no hesitation now in supporting a one-state solution where the state of Israel is dissolved and all its former citizens guaranteed full citizenship in the new state of Palestine. This is justice.

Every red line has been crossed. It is an open truth that Netanyahu promotes conflict to evade both an election and his return to face serious criminal charges in court.

My opposition is not to a people, a race or a religion, it is to a nation state, the state that has become a venal, degenerate insult to the human race and to any concept of decent moral standards.

Israel is evil manifested through its political and military leadership. The IDF is its armed enforcer and the world needs a new judgement on what responsibility must be placed on individual soldiers. If the Nuremberg doctrine applies then the list of war criminals in the IDF is almost too long to comprehend.

Western governments are responsible for their support which clearly breaches international law and many treaties. If they are to maintain any moral leadership, they must, without delay, provide the forum through which Israel and its leaders will be held to account.

Of course, I acknowledge the grievous wrongs against the Israeli people and that those responsible must be held to account. Equally, Israel’s criminals must face justice but the state itself is compromised beyond redemption.

I cannot see that it should survive. The Israeli people must be offered equality and protection in the new state of Palestine, which must be guaranteed at the UN.