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EyeWorld-beater
Sir,
Reading Prof Nicholas Maynard’s stirring article “Gaza Watch” (p21, Eye 1655) brought to mind war photographer Don McCullin’s statement: “You have to bear witness. You cannot just look away.” Thanks to Prof Maynard, firstly for risking his life to help the victims in Gaza and then to report what he witnessed under his name, rather than anonymously, which added to its power. It left me angry and in despair. Thanks also to the Eye for publishing such outstanding journalism. We have no excuse and cannot look away.
JIM HATLEY, Brighton
…I’ve always enjoyed the EyeWorld feature, with the writers’ abilities to succinctly frame the history, status quo and prospects of a region in a handful of paragraphs. Particular congratulations then for Prof Nicholas Maynard’s devastating “Gaza Watch” piece in the latest edition.
MARK.
Rubble ahead
Sir,
I have been subscribing to and reading your organ for half a century and can say without equivocation that the cover of your current issue is the most deeply offensive you have ever published. Keep up the good work!
NICK JONES, Hereford.
… Re the cover of Eye 1655 and “Gaza Watch” (Eye World, p21). Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’ll even forgive you for bringing back Celeb. Keep up the good, etc.
TERRY KERR.
…BRAVO. CAROL TRIPP, Angmering, West Sussex.
Proscription charges
Sir, I can’t believe I was arrested this afternoon at Parliament Square, SECONDS after holding up a placard. I deliberately wanted to show the absurdity of the current legislation by carefully wording my placard to read as follows:
“I oppose genocide.
I support Palestine. Action needed now!” Naively I assumed I couldn’t be arrested as technically – if you read the placard text carefully – I was not expressing support for a proscribed organisation. I am of a generation that thought that Britain believed in free speech, and I simply wanted to express my utter horror at the present situation in Gaza. But the strategically placed full stop failed to save me…
IAN D. MURSELL, London.
Mail Online
History lessons 1
Sir,
“A lesson from history” (In the Back, Eye 1654) may make a good story but it mostly demonstrates the lesson that you should not believe everything the CIA tells you.
Yes, the British resettlement in the early years of the Briggs Plan [in 1950s Malaya] was seen as often brutal and humiliating, but food denial was meant to keep food from getting to the communist fighters in the jungle. There were instances of malnutrition, but I have seen no original documents or interviews with new villagers which suggest there was a deliberate attempt to withhold drinking water or starve those being resettled as in Gaza.
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