Bertrand Russell’s last political statement, sent to the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo in February 1970. ------‘The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profound miscalculation... the present Israeli attacks will fail in their essential purpose...every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate. All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict.’----