We are appalled by the ceaseless slaughter of Palestinians.

Our horror dates back decades, not weeks. There can be no justification for the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Gaza. The pain will haunt human hearts for generations.

Powerful forces, chiefly the US and Britain, have brought about, sustained and nourished the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and the denial of Palestinian statehood despite every international plan and resolution.

The United States is today the chief beneficiary of the current chaos engulfing the middle east, as it was also the chief beneficiary of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

The future of the two state solution today looks more than buried in the rubble of Gaza.

The future is One State in Palestine - a picture sketched by the flow of recent history. However horrific this storm is it will not last, and it is a part of wider and longer struggle against imperialism and war.