“… The Blank Cheque Offered To Israel Has Finally Bounced”: William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple, the renowned historian, said the West is finally beginning to understand what Israelis are doing in Gaza. He said while the process “has been painfully slow to happen…the blank cheque offered to Israel has finally bounced…”. He made the remark by citing journalist Piers Morgan”s comments during his show Uncensored. Dalrymple said when even person like Piers Morgan started to realise the “campaign of indiscriminate mass murder is being waged against the Palestinians”, the West is finally changing.
Public opinion in the West is finally beginning to understand what the Israelis are up to in Gaza. It has been painfully slow to happen, but when even Piers Morgan realises a campaign of indiscriminate mass murder is being waged against the Palestinians, you know the blank cheque… https://t.co/QrI5RySsuF
— William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) January 17, 2024
Piers Morgan said Israel “can’t be handed a blank cheque signed in Palestinian blood”. He said Israel has dropped eight times more bombs on Gaza within 100 days than what America has done in Iraq in six years. During his show, Uncensored, Morgan said “Israel has dropped almost 30,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 100 days, eight times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war”.
He said while it is true that those who are the allies of Israel has killed “masses of innocent people in Dresden and Hiroshima and beyond to defeat the Nazis in the World War Two”, it was 79 years ago, and we now have international law to prevent the atrocities to be repeated again. Morgan said Israel should have learned from “two disastrous war” that US has unleashed as a response to 9/11 attack.
While calling Hamas “an oppressive misogynistic terror group, which hides under tunnel and uses people as human shields”, the US based journalist went on to list out the destruction caused by the Israeli occupation force’s indiscriminate bombing on Gaza. He said 85 percentage of the population in the besieged enclave is displaces, 70 percentage of houses destroyed, two thirds of schools and 100 mosques have been damaged by Israel bombardment, and asked “is destruction on this scale really what it takes to eradicate Hamas?”, and further asked if the answer is yes, “why are they still in charge?”. He asked when Israel will provide evidence that it has plan for life after this war, both for Gazans and Israel.
William Dalrymple is a Delhi-based Scottish historian and art historian. He is also a photographer, curator, broadcaster, critic, and author. Dalrymple is one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world’s largest writers’ festival, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival. His interests are spanned over history and art of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains and early Eastern Christianity. Out of the 10 books he wrote, every work has won literary prizes.
