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I don’t need to tell you about Israel’s utterly disgusting murder of innocent and unarmed civilians in international water, I would hope that you’ve heard the news already. Following a chat with my mother, I decided to do something about it by writing to my MP, David Mowat.  I used the invaluable service of WriteToThem to send my letter, and I’d urge you to do the same; I’m happy for you to use my letter as a template. 

Dear David Mowat,

I am writing to express my disgust over the murder of peace and charity activists in international waters this week. It follows a huge number of human rights abuses at the hands of the Israeli regime over the last decade, which in order to not write an entire novel, I won’t go into.

It appears that support for the Israeli regime remains strong amongst both Labour and Conservative politicians, with the lobbying group “Conservative Friends of Israel” boasting that “two thirds of Conservative MPs were members of Conservative Friends of Israel in 2006″.

I do not know if you are a member of the above organisation, which on the surface appears to be an group with nothing but sincere support for a regime which keeps an entire population under siege, abuses human rights, violates international law on a daily basis, and now – it would appear – murders charity workers.

Now that it’s clear that the IDF have murdered unarmed civilians in international waters for attempting to bring aid to a starving and desperate population, will you declare your position on being a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, and if you are a member, will you revoke your membership?

Second to this, I hope that you will stand up in parliament and represent Warrington’s disgust at this horrendous crime. We cannot let Israel continue to get away with murder, and if politicians such as yourself stand up for basic human rights, we may have some hope of stopping them doing this again.

Yours sincerely,

Phil Harper