Monday, October 06, 2003

Israel

So, a grief-stricken young Palestinian woman called Hanadi Jaradat decides the best way of avenging her brother and cousin who were both killed by the Israeli army in Jenin, is to strap explosives on her body and detonate them in a busy family restaurant in Haifa.



This is a tragedy, no other way of looking at it.

Israel's response to this was completely off kilter: it went and bombed Syria.

Now, that made a lot of sense...!!



As America blocks resolution after resolution in the Security Council, the Middle East is spiralling towards a destabilising war with a crazy kind of inevitability. We are all watching on the sidelines, seemingly paralysed.



There are too many black-and-white people in positions of power right now, in this colourful world we live in.

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