In July 2006, as Israel launched a horrendous attack on Southern Lebanon, various organisations and individual campaigners came together to launch Stop Arming Israel. The bombing and invasion of Gaza in the winter of 2008/9 has again highlighted the UK’s complicity in arming Israel, both directly and through components in US-supplied weaponry. Mike Dawson speaks to Kaye Stearman about how and why the UK is fueling the conflict in the Middle East. She talks about the alleged human rights infringements perpatrated by Isreal as well as the ongoing trade and support shown by the British Government.
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Paul Gubbins is a life long humanist. Humanism is the view that we can make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values and that we can live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. Humanists seek to make the best of the one life we have by creating meaning and purpose for ourselves. We choose to take responsibility for our actions and work with others for the common good. However it brings up many questions which clash with our comon culture. Our culture is interwoven with religious tradition and belief. Education, birth, death and marriage all revolve around religious ceremony of one kind or another. Mike Dawson discusses these issues in depth with Paul who is happy to label traditional religious beliefs as fairy stories with no concrete foundation based on fact. If this is the case then how can our society maintain its moral standards. Click below to hear the full unedited interview with Paul Gubbins of the South Cheshire Humanist Association.