Israel and nuclear weapons

I am writing to you about the momentous

and wonderful news that finally, after painstaking work

by so many ever since 1948, with the implementation of the

Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons TPNW yesterday,

nuclear weapons have officially been declared to be illegal.

Please see and join:

http://www.icanw.org

In my view, while this is good news for all people and all nations

to celebrate it is also of specific interest to Palestine.

The nuclear powers still need to ratify and disarm

and among these is Israel with its top secret

nuclear weapons establishment at Dimona

in the Negev Desert.
If you search the ICAN site for Middle East

you will see where our petition is coming from.
Notably that not only is Israel the only nuclear weaponised state

in the region, ( it hasn’t signed either the Non-Proliferation Treaty NPT

or the new Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons TPNW ),

Palestine on the other hand, which is typically portrayed as being

Terrorist, has signed both.

Evidence yet again of Western media and Govt bias

and the marginalising and silencing of its voice.

This I believe therefore should be, in view of the nuclear ban,

foremost in our attention, for it offers us a great opportunity

as with BLM, show the red card to racism and stop arming Israel

to work in solidarity alongside other campaigns which Palestinians would identify with.
In this case the obvious one would be CND

and actually ICAN itself because this would be specifically

in our interests as supporters of the cause of Palestine

and Palestinians.

To this end, I along with other anti-war activists

here in Norwich, have managed to get a petition

on the Govt Petition Site which in the current context

regarding criticism of Israel, was a considerable achievement in itself.
It has now gathered 900 signatures

which is very creditable but in order to reach

the critical 10,000 in order to receive a response

from Govt it needs to go up a gear

and this is why I am appealing to you.

Firstly to add your own signatures

and to share with those you know.

Secondly, petitions are now, especially when action on the streets

is extremely difficult owing to COVID,

a very valuable campaign tool, both for solidarity building

and also collective action.
Ours is very topical indeed now

and support from PSC would be invaluable.

If it could be recommended on a voluntary basis

to membership this would give it a huge boost

and in my opinion be very valuable to the cause of Palestine.
I have by the way visited many times and also lived and worked there too.

It takes little time or effort to sign and every signature

is and would be invaluable.

Petition: Pressure Israel to allow international inspection of its nuclear sites

As such I recommend it to you all remembering of course

that some of you have kindly signed already.

Petition: Pressure Israel to allow international inspection of its nucle…

That in addition the UK Govt should exercise all its authority to insist that, in the interests of security and …

With all respects

and in solidarity

and sincerely

Shan Barclay

Communications & Liaison Officer

Norwich PSC