Friday, November 24, 2006

Middle East.
The idea of resolving the ME crises is naive if it is to be structured on the basis of a skewed and lopsided situation in Israel. The very notion of a wall to create a fortress nation is absurd in a state, which purports to be a democracy. The changing demographic in Israel are stark and real. The Palestinians will in time outnumber the Israelis; of this there is no doubt,
but reflecting on the chosen people; when Moses led them out of the land of the pharaohs into the promised land, they arrived not in a new and hitherto undiscovered utopia, but in the land of the Canaan people; the people of the Mediterranean coast who were to give us language; Bibles on the northern coast is the home of all writing as we know it.
Moreover the state of Israel in more recent history, post WW2 was 'given' to the Israelis by the US and the Uk. And even this was flawed as the Brits disembarked their then protectorate on the eve of the unilateral declaration by the Israelis of their State. The State was not recognised by the UN until 1948,
further back we can only reflect again on the perfidy of perfidious Albion when she guaranteed both Israelis and Palestinians a state after ww1 - and this guarantee for statehood was to be in the same histo- geographical area.
Is it inconceivable then that the Brits could be deemed to be honest brokers in negotiating a truce in the 'disputed territories surrounding the Jordan valley - or the USA who contentiously ignore the hideous and monstrous separation wall.

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