Once trust is broken I don’t know that it can be restored.
Israel is trusted by no-one, deceit is a trademark of Israel’s relationship with its neighbours and the world.
The ongoing genocide in Gaza, the theft of land in the West Bank, the de-humanising, it’s a matter of disgust and no amount of victim-bleating by Israel can disguise the facts and the truth.
I’m almost back, in terms of health, to half past human and in the outer world events flash by with the speed of a demented merry go round.
Sanctions are a weapon of war, a sly weapon with which to bully and strangle a country into the failure of their economy with the fault then sheeted back to their government when it is, usually, America who has created the situation. It’s a foul way to punish a population.
Iran isn’t the only country to be beggared by sanctions. The unrest within the country is fanned by the actions of those who profit and the fact that the son of the Shah is being touted as a regime change candidate speaks to the general ignorance of most populations to their history. Israel and America foment conditions that will serve their purpose.
‘Confessions of an economic hit man’, by John Perkins, details the way in which America operates in South America which it sees as it’s back yard and in which no government with even vaguely socialist ideas is tolerated. Right wing dictatorships are the preferred model and if that can’t be bought then achieved by deadlier means.
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.’
That phrase echoed through a village childhood complete with all the insults and taunts children can dream up. Very easy for a tender soul to arrive home and reveal the hurt only to be met with a ‘toughen up, not everyone is going to like you’ type of phrase.
I hadn’t heard that phrase for years but the other day the author of ‘The West Report’ used it himself. Here in Australia free speech becomes constrained by hate laws, not because of hate - it’s usually not hate but disgust which is being expressed.
Our government is beholden to recent tragedy at Bondi and doesn’t want to offend anyone least of all our Jewish brethren. So here we have the recent and real tragedy at Bondi with a smorgasbord of utterances but those who march for Palestine causes are met with police force. Tens upon tens of thousands killed or maimed in Gaza and the clarity and outrage from our leaders is muted in a shameful manner.
No hatred here, nothing antisemitic but even if there is perceived cause for offence - so what? Be offended. It’s a choice. It’s the actions of Israel which is the root cause of worldwide revulsion and disgust.
Russia is not my enemy. The present situation is entirely due to both Europe and America’s insistence on pushing NATO to Russia’s border and manipulating the political situation in Ukraine. Again, a population unaware of their own recent history and a cast of villains, Boris Johnson being one, who are happy to see the flower of Ukraine’s youth slaughtered for no good purpose.
Very little of this perspective is mirrored by the main stream press where ‘Occupied Territory’ gets replaced with the innocent sounding ‘Enclave.’ It’s not innocent, someone writes the script which gets read on the evening news.