The horrors being perpetarted in the middle east can only be imagined by most of us who live in peaceful lassitude in the UK; to be able to remember bombs and rockets exploding around us we must be in our 70s at least.
Shockingly, such is not the case in Israel and the Gaza strip. The desperate Palestinian militants in Gaza are firing rockets into Israel and Israel, one of the most powerful military nations in the world, are responding. The measure of the mismatch between the 2 forces is that, so far, 3 Israelis have died while 94 Palestinians in Gaza have perished, including whole families and many children.
This is a conflict which will never end. Israel is a nation which has no right to exist, having been created out of panic and guilt after the end of WW2. Ever since its creation, its leaders, many of whom were acknowledged terrorists themselves, have cold-bloodedly driven the native Palestinians out of the centres and best areas so that now many hundreds of thousands are crammed into the inhospitable Gaza strip and living in squalid conditions. Is it any wonder that militant Palestinian groups, such as Hamas, have arisen and are attempting to fight back ?
The villains in this piece are the Israelis and those who first created the country and subsequently support their every act of aggression against the indigenous peoples of the region. The Israeli government needs to be stamped on and forced to come to a decent agreement with the Palestinians, one in which the Palestinians have equal status; when a similar situation occurred in South Africa, the world did not support the white invaders, it supported the underdogs. Why is the position over Israel so different ?
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