Letters to the Editor: British government seeks to appeal to a humanity that it itself lacks

When British politicians pronounce on good and evil, bear in mind the rendition of Iraqi prisoners into Assad's brutal regime, or the RAF providing intelligence about Gaza to Israeli forces

Palestinians struggle to get into a bakery to buy bread in Deir Al Balah, Gaza, on November 27, 2024. Picture: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu/Getty

Governments don’t operate on the basis of morality. British politicians in the last week can’t stop saying how bad Assad was when, after the West’s invasion of Iraq, Iraqi detainees were sent via extraordinary rendition to Syria and other countries with less stringent human rights protections, to be tortured, in attempts to circumvent international law.

This is the West’s morality. We can listen to hours and hours of lamenting from British members of parliament in the House of Commons over the depravities of Assad when the West equals any other state, force, or army in its use of terror.