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You report that Donald Trump asked Benjamin Netanyahu to be more \u201clow-key\u201d in Lebanon (Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches fresh strikes, 9 April<\/a>).<\/p>\n As someone who is Palestinian Lebanese, I know exactly what that means. The West Bank is low-key. The world isn\u2019t watching, so the killing and dispossession continues \u2013 door to door, quietly enough that most people won\u2019t realise until Israel<\/a> has taken the whole of the West Bank.<\/p>\n Lebanon is different. Three hundred people killed in 10 minutes is hard to ignore. So the message from Washington is simply: not like that. Keep it quiet. Take the land. Just don\u2019t let people notice.<\/p>\n Britain\u2019s response is condemnation. But words are not enough. We remain complicit for as long as Britain continues to grant Israel preferential trade terms and supply components for the warplanes and weapons systems being used in these strikes. What has to happen before our government acts \u2013 rather than simply condemns? I have never thought of the writer Alan Bennett as a prophet, but in the latest volume of his diaries, Enough Said, he seems to have a flair for it. On page 167, at the end of an entry for 7 January 2019, is the following: \u201cWhen Trump destroys the world those who are left will look at one another and wonder why nobody stopped him.\u201d
Alexandra Lucas<\/strong>
London<\/em><\/p>\n
John Deards<\/strong>
Warminster, Wiltshire <\/em><\/p>\n