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Labour calling for a ceasefire would achieve nothing. So why should it tear itself apart over this? | Polly Toynbee

Labour calling for a ceasefire would achieve nothing. So why should it tear itself apart over this? | Polly Toynbee

Keir Starmer is not playing politics with the Israel-Hamas war – in government he knows he would face tough decisionsDay after day we watch the pulverising of Gaza as deaths reach more than 8,300 according to the Hamas-run health ministry; thousands more are certain to die. Photographs of dead Palestinian children with their names scrawled on their legs by their parents lest they die unidentified are beyond horror.It’s unbearable to witness. Call for it to stop. Stop it now. Even if what we say has no effect, at least raise our voices against the butchery of people with nowhere else to flee. Absolve us from collusion.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

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