Peace and War
This is all about peace issues—about conflict across the world—especially where England has some interest or responsibility for action and outcomes; our national attitude to working out who is right and who is wrong; which regimes we can support or encourage; those we cannot help; and when the people we regard as the enemy are unlikely to be crushed and defeated, despite the efforts of 'our brave boys'

The picture is of the wall built across Gaza

War on terror Innocence Letter of August 2006 arguing the complicity of 'innocent civilians' in a democratic state engaged in war
Israel and Gaza Jerusalem Extract from the Journal kept on the visit of Susan Hamilton Fletcher and Victoria Howman to Israel in February 2006
Balance Letter to Gordon Brown and others contrasting the political correctness of official censure on the young princes for using nicknames with the official approval for Israeli killing civilians in Gaza. Attachments to the letter quote several UN Security Council and General Assmebly resolutions calling on Israel to make moves towards peace.
Response Reply by Julian Lewis on 16 January 2009 regarding Gaza and Israel
Israeli view Letter regarding Gaza, quoting a letter written to The Guardian on 17 January 2009 by 22 Israeli intellectuals
One State Solution Thoughts sent in November 2012 to an evangelical Christian friend about Israel and Arabia, Jew and Muslim; I remind him of the root causes of the conflict and propose a solution
Follow up Thoughts sent in an email of January 2024 to Bob Seely MP encouraging him to think about the possibility of a One State Solution.
The Arab world El Baradei Newspaper article in April 2010 recording the views of El Baradei on despotism in the Arab world
Noam Chomsky Jeremy Paxman's interview in March 2011 with Noam Chomsky, Professor in linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist
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Syrian Crisis Part of the PM programme broadcast on 3 September 2013 by BBC Radio 4: A part of the news is read; then Eddie Mair interviews Mahmoud Mousa, a Syrian refugee who escaped with his family to Turkey; finally Mair speaks to Elizabeth Ferris, co-director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy. For me the most significant and telling points come from Mahmoud Mousa, when he tells us that the outside world should stay aside, and from Elizbeth Ferris with her account of the scale of the refugee problem (and therefore, I would argue) the overriding need for us in the West not to bomb Syria, but to support the neighbouring countries offering their hospitality to Syrian refugees
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Lebanon Channel 4 Unreported World report on Syrian refugees in Lebanon, broadacast on Friday 10 October 2014
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Libya UNSCR 1970 UN Security Council Resolution 1970 regarding Libya, passed in March 2011
UNSCR 1971 UN Security Council Resolution 1971 regarding Libya, passed in March 2011
UNSCR 1973 UN Security Council Resolution 1973 regarding Libya, passed in March 2011
Ireland Media bias Text of my email to the BBC regarding the unwarranted partisanship of John Humphrys
Afghanistan Time to go Guardian article in March 2012 in which Simon Jenkins argues for the end of our activities in Afghanistan
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Lessons Poignant reminder of lessons from Vietnam not learnt by the West; ten minute talk by retired US Army officer and academic David Donovan, broadcast on Sunday 16 September 2012 in the BBC programme Broadcasting House
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