Paul Williams contextualizes and reads a statement by British Philosopher Bertrand Russell dated 31st January 1970 that was read on 3rd February, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, at an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo. Below, I have identified key recommendations, made in 1970, that remain moral imperatives today –
The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annex foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.
A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.
What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.
Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in June 1967.
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