Palestinians

I knew we both started going to Eastville in 1963 but it seems we have a lot more in common than I thought. Our family shared a cottage with my grandmother for the first seven years of my life before moving a hundred yards  up the street to a council house. My Mum was born in the cottage in 1926 and died in the council house 69 years later and she never lived anywhere else but “ our street”. My two sons are now US citizens ( dual) as I’m sure yours are and they had to sign up to be available for military service but thankfully are now past the age where a call up is mandatory.

I agree with your analysis of the historical reasons for the problems in the Middle East and think it boils down to backing the wrong people. The world has poured massive amounts of money into the region in an attempt to solve the problem but it’s gone to the wrong kind of people and been spent in the wrong way. 

An Israeli spokesman once talked about what a wonderful place Gaza could have been if the money it received from the West had been used sensibly rather than falling into corrupt hands. It has a wonderful position on the shores of the Mediterranean with potential for tourism and trade and could have become a new Singapore but for the corruption. And it was this corruption which drove the fed up population, in desperation, to vote for Hamas in 2006. Now their doctrine of hate has been systematically embedded and is spreading far afield, even to the campuses of US colleges and to people who have no idea of the history or the reasons for the conflict but who see this hate and aggression as some kind of fashionable leisure pursuit.

For many years there was a huge amount of hate and aggression on both sides of the Irish border and I had an insight into this through a friendship with someone who was very close to John Hume and Seamus Mallon. About 40 years ago he gave me a very accurate assessment of how the Northern Ireland conflict would be resolved and said it all depended on prosperity. He said if the people felt they were prospering then they would reject extremism and on the whole I think he’s been proven right. Prosperity is usually taken to relate to financial well-being but the true definition is much wider than that and would include things like “ being successful” “ thriving” and “ flourishing” which can all be accomplished without a hint of money being involved. I think instilling a sense of prosperity in the people of the Middle East is the key to eliminating extremism.

What about the Labour MP that spoke out about the Muslim rape gangs.Sarah Champion I think,resigned from Corbyns Opposition Party,because people in power/authority were scared of looking that made up word," Islamophobic ".

The rape gangs continued

She was brave and used sensible and calm language,but that still was'nt good enough.

It had got to the stage,any criticism of Islam etc was seen as far Right,Nazi etc!
What an awful joke!

People like you,using awful accusational language to attack free speech ,why?

A few of the Muslims you know have professional jobs.

Bloody ridiculous,dangerous and fascist.

As usual,'attack' the poster with your arrogant spite.

Then ignore the point.

"Blow hard" speak or calm speak.
Both have not been allowed,or at least if used people like you have labelled people "racist " and "Islamophobic ".

Difficult for critics of Islam to win,is'nt it.

Then there's the Charlie Hebdow massacre.Etc,etc.

What I am trying to say is Qur'an offers guidance and is not necessarily prescriptive. It can also be difficult to translate that into English

Still ignored the question.

Surely you see how difficult things are when criticism of Islam,in any style,is answered by tarnishing a persons character and possibly ruining or ending their life.

That was my point.

Oh dear.
To be honest I actually feel pity for you. That is a very dark space you inhabit.

Yet you are the one calls me a racist, an antisemite and a terrorist sympathiser. Do you not see the hypocrisy in what you have just written?
I think it best that I don't respond to you, you have not much to say in any event.

How about denying that this is the truth...?

That of course is if you refuse to look at the reports into this or admit the fact it's the truth once seen..