Mr Williams (Two twin towns solution, Letters, March 5) paints a far too simple picture of the Gaza situation.
I have enormous sympathy for the civilians of Gaza – men, women and children. They do not deserve what has happened to them.
Some of them might have voted for Hamas, but they would not be the first population to regret at leisure voting in an anti-Semitic, extremist, political party in recent times.
Israel is not the cause of all the problems in the Middle East as some people claim. It is just one player among many.
I would also suggest that Hamas has more than sufficient “solidarity” to be going on with. Why would anyone wish to sully the reputation of any English town by giving succour and comfort to Hamas? Why would anyone seriously interested in peace in the Middle East take sides (“stand in solidarity”) with a terrorist governed regime against a democratic nation state and member of the UN?
It is this sort of wishy washy kowtowing that gives encouragement to the terrorists and prolongs the conflict.
What the Middle East desperately needs are fair and equitable solutions, and not school politics or empty gestures.
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