'UK politicians have got it wrong on the Israel-Hamas war'
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UK politicians have got it wrong on the Israel-Hamas war. We must hold them to account
Owen Jones for The Guardian
"What value a Palestinian civilian life?" asks Owen Jones in The Guardian. For Britain's political establishment, the answer is "precious little", he argues. The reluctance of Conservative and Labour MPs to criticise Israel "could make our leaders complicit in war crimes", he writes. "Our failure to hold politicians to account is what allows these horrors to endlessly repeat," he says, and "those who condemn children to perish under rubble should be damned for ever".
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