I would suggest one amendement to the article: no support to the UK regime and no trust in it. The political solution Shlaim is proposing has to come from the Palestinians and all those who oppose the Western regimes involved. In other words, the change has to come from the struggle of the Palestinians and Arabs against the corrupt and complicit Palestinian Authority, the toppling of the Arab regimes and the struggle in the West for regime change. Shlaim's 'support' of the UK to change its position on Hamas means appealing to the same political and imperialist structure for a political solution. The same regime that when tomorrow the genocide comes to an end will continue to support the Istaeli state, but now under ‘a democratic liberal Israeli government'. Let's not forget that previous UK governments did not support the Palestinain struggle. On the contrary, they supported Israel to the hilt and perpetuating and maintaining, along with the US, Israel's its chi...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51