When will the people of the world tell their leaders that modern warfare is unacceptable because it makes no distinction in targeting families and children and combatants.

It is time to remove the fear of nuclear weapons by bringing recent United Nations legislation into force.

Recent experience in Ukraine and Palestine are horrifying and is awaking a primitive desire for revenge which inevitably sets up patterns of conflict into the future. The ready availability of weapons elsewhere encourages extremists to force their ideas on otherwise peaceful communities.

And we promote the largest arms fair in the world because it provides us with jobs and profits.

The Israel and Palestine eruption should be taken as a warning to the United Nations because of the near future. The rapidly advancing climate changes are making parts of the world uninhabitable and the United Nations will be expected to find new homelands for millions of poor people, but how?

The growing number of people in squalid refugee camps is not sustainable as a long-term solution.

We need to avoid the mistake over Palestine which has defied all attempts to find a solution and built up resentment.

By imposing on a conservative community, a new community of settlers who have experienced genocide with a different modern culture that is expansionist in outlook.

This present investment in modern weapons that are a concealed arms race is denying the world of the resources to tackle climate change while still maintaining investment in modern health, housing and other expenditure of advanced economies, while population still grows.

There are solutions to our predicament but maybe it will require a growth of women statesmen to change attitudes in time.

Andrew Rutter,
St John's Road,
Winchester

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