Hi Connor
Sunday, 17 August 2025
to Cycling UK
Is this investment somewhat extreme?
Improving the transport between Brum city centre and Solihull by:
- Building the UK's 5th mode of rail transport, a high speed railway when it already has the fourth mode, heavy rail.
- Spending tens of millions in price and in weight of greenhouse gas emissions for the bus that thinks it's a tram, called Sprint when it already has regular buses.
- Spending billions in price and in weight of GHG emissions for superduper trams when it already has a good bus service.
- The UK tram promotion group (at WMCA HQ) calls the tram a "bus on rails". Therefore, the third bus service and two different kind of railways over a distance of 12 Kms.
And multi-modal transport is a GOOD THING. Our Andy Street says so, echoed by our man today, Richard Parker.
Comments from Israelis who read Haaretz
there's no rising antisemitism in the world, there's only rising criticism of israel, the most dangerous place for jews.
Friday, 15 August 2025
Why do trade union, left wing, environmental groups find it impossible ...
... to meet with and have a discussion over all of our mutual concerns with the actual decision makers at TfWM/WMCA HQ at 16 Summer Lane?
A plethora of great groups from Acorn, through pensioner groups to West Midlands Climate groups but never any attendance at meetings that the public are entitled to attend.
Why am I the only one? Although I've had a break this year.
Am I the only one who has actually met with individual decision makers at 16 Summer Lane?
Am I the only one who thinks that to slow rather than deepen the Climate Emergency, we want the decision makers to minimise their spending on the wrong things?
What are the wrong things?
Would our respected Bob Whitehead's list, here help?
Will anyone else join me at a WMCA meeting in September?
TIM WELLER
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
We always have to be the world democratic dominant bloc - and definitely over Putin and Hamas!
Since the 2nd millennium BC, when the people of Israel committed aggression, the Lord God of Israel rewarded them with victory and ownership of the Land.
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Bishop Nick Baines has it dead right, again
My point is simple. The problem of the human bias to destructiveness is evidenced in religious conflict and the lust for power at any level. It is not cured by rationalism. How is that the culture, philosophy and idealism of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, etc. was so easily corrupted within a century or less by a populace drawn to populism, fascism and mass slaughter?
If the bloodbaths of religious wars in Europe led to a better way, then that better way also led to Buchenwald and the Stasi. Now listen to the rhetoric of the far right wing groups springing up in Germany and across Europe, blending the language of dehumanising hate under the guise of “cultural realism”.
https://nickbaines.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/the-fragility-of-civilisation/
Monday, 11 August 2025
Nick Baines on good governance in Germany
I was in Vienna recently and saw something that sums up the challenge of Germany in the last century. At one end of the Judenplatz is the haunting Holocaust Memorial by Rachel Whiteread; facing it, twenty metres away, is a statue of the philosopher, poet and Enlightenment hero Johann Gottfried Herder who re-shaped German education and culture. The question that cries out is this: how did Germany go from Herder to Hitler in a mere century?
This is the question that Germany has been unable to escape in the last seventy years or so. Walk around any German city and you will find yourself stepping on small brass plaques in the pavement bearing the name and dates of Jews deported to their deaths from the houses before which you now stand. They are everywhere – and they are called Stolpersteine: stumbling blocks that get in your way and compel you to face responsibility for what happened to your neighbours only a generation or two ago.
Because of its history Germany has had no option but to confront its past and choose its future. Yet, as time moves on and memory becomes history, revisionism becomes easier for some people. Recent changes in the political landscape come on the back of concerns about immigration in general and Islam in particular. Yet this phenomenon was almost inconceivable only a decade ago.
What it demonstrates is that human beings all too easily re-shape their worldview according to the world they now live in. We can accommodate all sorts of challenges to our ethics … until we find their foundation has been undercut and we have given away too much. Perhaps history teaches us that it is not a big step from ‘every human being matters’ to ‘some matter more than others’ to ‘these are not really people of value’.
If you go into Berlin Cathedral and look up at the dome, you will see in gold lettering words from the Lord’s Prayer: “Dein ist das Reich” – “Thine is the Kingdom”. I have sat there and thought of the generations of people – from the Second Reich through Weimar and the Nazis, through the GDR and the now-reunited Germany – and wondered what Christian worshippers thought that meant. And how could they so easily confuse the Kingdom of Caesar with the Kingdom of the Jesus we read about in the gospels? Whose Reich/Kingdom do we really serve?
The question goes to the heart of how human beings make sense of themselves and the world – and whether, when the heat is on, the foundation of our ethical frameworks is as sound as we like to think it is. Humility, generosity, loving your neighbour, protecting the weak – or self-preservation at all costs?
Every generation faces the same question. So does every nation.
Thought for the Day extract from Bishop Nick Baines
Every day in Parliament begins with the Lord’s Prayer. It will be said daily by millions of Christians and in most church services. But, how we say it reveals what we really think it means.
So, for example, should I stress “Your kingdom come” or “your kingdom come”?
I think it should be the former, with the stress on the “your”. Why? Because there are plenty of other kingdoms on offer and vying for dominance. When Jesus taught his friends to pray this way, you could get executed for claiming that anyone other than Caesar was ‘the Lord’. To pray “your kingdom come” was potentially – or maybe even essentially – seditious.
This isn’t a merely religious question. Whose kingdom we choose to serve has real-world consequences. For some people, it means protesting against the state or the law, thus coming into conflict over what they believe is more fundamentally right than what the dominant culture allows. Those taking part in protests against the proscription of Palestine Action are counting the cost of this ethical choice.
Friday, 8 August 2025
Why does the Israel/Palestine war get so much airtime?
"Why does this very small place generate so many headlines and why does the world look at it in the way that it does? Firstly, it is uniquely divisive. Everybody with a background in one of the three monotheistic religions, probably learnt about this place in their education; a lot of people think they know something about here.
"It also plays into people's world views. If you are one of those people who believe there is a dominant Western agenda driven by American power, by finance capital, by Western attitudes towards the rest of the world. And also if you have the other attitude that there are important issues of liberation, of freedom, of colonialism at play here, then I think not just the Middle East but specifically the Israeli/Palestinian conflict becomes a microcosm of all of that. And people are able to play into that a lot of the things that they are passionate about and sometimes people are more passionate about those wider issues than actually knowing the detail, which can be a little involved about what is going on here."
JEREMY BOWEN on Feedback, 7 August 2025
to Footsteps re the importance of bus/trains over trams
All the trees, shrubs and plants have been clear felled in this photo, apart from the far left hand top corner that is on the far side of the canal:
Thursday, 7 August 2025
To provoke your thoughts
We are the rich and powerful.
Or, are we like the priest and the levite in the story of the Good Samaritan? Or the robber?
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Questions for Tim Gregory, author of 'Going Nuclear', pub 2025
This must easily be the best pro-nuclear book ever published. It is so well written, is clear but detailed and, for me, is irrefutable. It raises these questions, however.
- Why do you play down the role of water in nuclear power when water is essential for cooling and in the operation process?
- If that is true, how are we able to build SMRs in towns and cities?
- Over-promised and under-delivered ever since the 1950s with the "too cheap to meter" promised but never delivered. Please comment.
- You are on the side of the powers that be - the authorities who had our taxes to go ahead with nukes but have struggled for decades. How come? Is this to do with at least four nuclear accidents? Or, five with the wrong button/dial operated by the Indian nuclear worker.
- Why has your side never succeeded as the French government has with nuclear elecy?
- Do you have a map of their nuclear sites, please?
- Does your book explain what went wrong to cause the nuclear accidents? YES! Chapter 9. I'm on 8.
- Do you know why George Monbiot has gone over to your side, some years ago, now?
- How much nuclear electricity do we take from France?
- Do you approve of the 5 August pronouncement that the US will build a nuclear reactor on the moon?
- Which one person or organisation is the most active or, anti-nuclear electricity?
- Any others?
- Have you had any exchanges or debates with them?
- Should we 'Just Stop Oil' (meaning no more exploration for new fields) and go hell for leather with SMRs?
- Is the solution my wife and I have chosen of a mini power station for nine months of the year and the other three relying on batteries to import elecy in the middle of the night, any good? SEE:-
Thursday, 28 December 2023
How we got rid of gas to arrive at 100% electricity
I am horrified by the spread of war - now to the Middle East as well as eastern Europe/Russia and our own ecocidal behaviour from economic/population growth instead of ecological growth and sustainability. My blog, timweller1.blogspot.com reveals more of my outrageous opinions, concerns and my jaundiced/sad interpretation of human history. Don't read it!
I have changed my opinion on batteries to complement solar PV. Our Nov 2021, 14.4 kWp set of batteries is working well to import Octopus (transferred in April 2022) Agile tariff in the early hours of the morning when electricity is very cheap and charges up the battery to make for enough electricity to last throughout the day. In October we completed our transition from gas to 100% electricity and our total energy bill, last week was £50.85 for four weeks, 22 Nov to 21 Dec. The house is a mini power station to power the UK in the summer months, instead of massive power stations feeding the grid.In March 2022 we stopped using the gas-fired central heating and now use only Herschel infrared portable electric heaters. We next got rid of the old gas cooker and bought an inductive electric cooker. Finally, from gas water heating to instant electric water heaters. Expensive to do but I used my lifetime savings from 48 years in the one house. The gas meter was taken out for free, by Octopus, on 30 Nov 2023.- Is oil too precious to burn? Perhaps, we need it for the 101 photochemical and other uses?
- How do you answer my assertion that the rich, American-led Western world is so addicted to finite fossil fuels that the power of the atom cannot possibly be a substitute for all the uses we use fossil fuels for.
- Our emissions of greenhouse gases will be so enormous for years to come and the Climate impacts are now so built in, all we can do is to rapidly go nuclear to postpone the inevitable.
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Israel - throwback to wicked imperialism and King Herod
BRILLIANT. Very many thanks, Andy. My MP, Alex Ballinger is doing what he can but I'm calling for BDS - boycott, divestment, sanctions placed on pariah Israel.
NCR number is still missing - famous John Grimshaw told me on 24.3.25!
Can you, please, help with funding to allow our 18 Kms Black Country Active Travel Route to be used in its entirety, please? Only 5 Kms in Dudley borough is a dirt bikers, quad bikers, 4x4 paradise! 3 metre wide and tarmac would help to make all the difference - but only you lovely Londoners have the money! And, our influential West Midlands Mayor, Richard Parker.
- An NCR number is needed for the cycle-walkway from Fens Pool Avenue, Brierley Hill to NW Wolverhampton. For many years the Ordnance Survey, on their Explorer map, has it down as a "Traffic-free cycle route". Other names are Valley Parkway, Monarch's Way, Smestow Valley Walk, Kingswinford Railway Walk, S Staffordshire Railway Path and The Mudway (my name for Dudley's 5 Kms section!).
- Please Alice, do get the funds to widen the full length to the three metres width, Sustran standard and tarmacked, too. We must go on asking for it to be accessible to all self-powered trikes, bikes, unicycles and horses. Share with care with cyclists always slowing and giving way to walkers and horses.
- Only constant, intermittent requests and reminders to the decision makers will ever get the full 18 Kms upgraded to a usable standard for all fossil-fuel free users, including horse riders.
- Councillors, who I thought are meant to set policy for the officers to implement, must ensure that their decisions are carried out.
- It is 18 Kms from Fens Pool Avenue/A461 to Aldersley Jct canal towpath. Former councillor Chris Barnett and I are asking for the full length to be seen as so important for commuting, leisure and travel because of its strategic position, connecting two halves of the Black Country via South Staffordshire.
- It seems to have been in use since the 1980s for active travel but neglected by Dudley MBC for their 5 Kms.
- South Staffs DC were magnificent in tarmacking their section. The smallest council has set the two big boys a superb example.
- Active Travel England and Beccy Marston who is Active Travel Commissioner, WMCA are crucial players to be influenced, reminded over what has to be done and kept up to the mark!
- The route goes through three nature reserves: Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, Barrow Hill NR and Pensnett NR.; two former railway station cafes and one Woodland Trust property called Himley Plantation at Wombourne.
Sunday, 3 August 2025
My paraphrase of Bowen's 'The Making of the Modern Middle East'
Britain, as easily the world's biggest empire in 1914, got involved unnecessarily early when we declared war against Germany on the 4 August 1914. Our side then won that World War, defeated Palestine and took over Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire. We then found ourselves landed with the Mandate to rule Palestine with its Arabs and the Jews who were arriving from Europe in increasing numbers.
From the 1890s, the Zionists among the Jews were always wanting Palestine as their Jewish homeland after centuries of persecution by the Europeans, including England with our despicable discrimination, persecution and even expulsion of the Jews from our shores.
Our Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised the land to the Jews because we had more in common with them than the Arabs and they would be more likely to help us defeat the Ottoman Empire. But the vital condition which protected the rights and interests of the existing Arab Palestinians was always overlooked over the next 50 years. By 1948, we had had enough of being bombed and shot at by the Jewish terrorist groups, one of which was Haganah and is now called the Israeli Defence Force. We left the Jews and Arabs to continue to fight it out between them for the land.
For 100 years, the Arabs have always been outmuscled and outgunned by the Jews/Zionists and Britain always acted more harshly towards the Palestinians for their massacres than the massacres by the Jews of Palestinians.
Hence, we Brits are responsible for the 125 years of impasse in the unHoly Land. To put it more crudely, by 125 years of mutual slaughter but, more by one side than the other.
Therefore, British MPs need to understand the history of our involvement and how our ancestors are to blame for the tragedy that is Israel. We have a moral obligation to help. Our sins of the past are coming back to haunt us, once more.
'Going Nuclear' book with Tim Gregory
You are honoured! This morning, from Halesowen Library I borrowed an OS Explorer map, another book from my favourite Robert Harris novelist and your book. And it was 'Going Nuclear' that I delved into first when I sat down with cup of coffee!
It is an authoritative, impressive and clearly written book. I sure do want your optimism to be justified because it looks as though, from your statistics, that we had better move back to nuclear.
You are a nuclear environmentalist and I'm a minimalist environmentalist to minimise my impact, my eco-footprint on life support systems, without being a hermit.
Saturday, 2 August 2025
Bowen and Doucet
Jeremy Bowen is measured, fair and correct in all his reporting and in all his wonderful writings. Give the man a pay rise, a knighthood, an award. But he is far too important and precious to be allowed away from us on annual leave - the only person who truly deserves an honour.
Lyse Doucet is also magnificent.
THANK YOU, BBC.
Friday, 1 August 2025
How many years for GHG to be paid back by nukes?
How many years to payback the GHG emitted in construction?
Monday, 28 July 2025
to Peter Plisner re BCIMO Innovation Centre
Dear Peter - and copied to Phil Bateman who is as active as ever, I'm sure. For your side of the story; it would be wonderful to get a response from both of you, please. Let's have a correct history for future generations to read and learn from.
- Over the decades, Peter has been covering transport and rail matters in the West Midlands. Can you recall or could you look back in your records, please over what is the truth about the Merry Hill monorail opening about 1990 and then closing two or three years later. In particular,
- Did the monorail have the agreement and support of Centro/PTA who were wanting the Metro WBHE built from the early 1980s? Wikipedia once said 1981 was when the 'West Midlands Metro' was born under the prompting of Cllr David Sparks and Cllr Phil Bateman as WMCC councillors.
- Can you throw any light on why Don and Roy Richardson in working with Centro, presumably, did not press for the monorail to be extended to the former principal mainline railwayat that time, in readiness for the mainline to be opened to bring shoppers to Merry Hill by train and monorail, in due course, then?
- Have you ever questioned why Metro trams were given top priority over reinstating passenger commuter trains on existing freight only or, mothballed railway lines like the Black Country's London to Edinburgh mainline - successful for about 100 years?
- What response did you get, Peter?
- On 'Midlands Today', you asked Laura Shoaf about that wasted but existing mainline. She said, "passive provision" was being built in to enable the former successful liine to be reopened one day.
- Did you challenge her at anytime as to why the vast extra expense was to be incurred with building a tramway over 7 Kms when there were 56 Kms available between Stourbridge Jct and Burton on Trent?
- Or, why trams to get trains was ever a sensible and efficient and a competent use of taxpayers' money to reopen the most important mainline railway in the very heart of England, while we all sit in traffic jams on motorways and main roads?
- How can the railway "of national strategic significance" be reopened, as the authorities wish, now they have put the BCIMO HQ on the site of Dudley railway station?
- Would you please be so good as to check over and correct or comment on what I have written here, Peter and Phil?
The letter on Palestine signed by 221 MPs
"Whilst we appreciate the UK does not have it in its power to bring about a free and independent Palestine, UK recognition would have a significant impact due to our historic connections and our membership on the UN Security Council, so we urge you to take this step.
"British recognition of Palestine would be particularly powerful given its role as the author of the Balfour Declaration and the former Mandatory Power in Palestine.
"Since 1980 we have backed a two-state solution. Such a recognition would give that position substance as well as living up to a historic responsibility we have to the people under that Mandate."
The letter also recalls the 2014 parliamentary motion, overwhelmingly supported by the House of Commons, that stated: “This House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.”
Sunday, 27 July 2025
"... anything that comes out of the sky that isn't killing them is welcome ... "
Sam Rose, Director of UNRWA, said on 'Broadcasting House' this morning:
Heaven for Merry Hill SC and Brum shops
The full 10.7 Kms Dudley Tram is costing £1 BILLION to destroy the Black Country's London to Edinburgh mainline railway!
Our Dudley Station is now called Dudley Tram Stop near to the remaining and now wrongly named Station Hotel!
The Christmas present opening will make it easier for Dudley shoppers to try the tram to Brum shops!
The final phase to Merry Hill will take the rest of the shoppers from Dudley off to Merry Heaven!
The very final phase will take shoppers from Brierley Hill High Street to Merry Heaven!
Heaven for Merry Hill landowner, Sovereign Centros, given a fabulous new asset for free, by us taxpayers digging deep into our pockets and, never again having our mainline Black Country Railway reinstated to connect us to the North and South of Britain.
Saturday, 26 July 2025
Nature clear felled at Merry Hill
Since the 1990s I have been writing to the authorities to reinstate both the nearby mainline railway and the monorail link to it. Since 1981, they have always insisted on trams only, not trains even. Trains and monorail could have been done for a fraction of the price of the £1 billion for 10 Kms of tramway. All nature trashed, everything gone in my photo when I find it!
Friday, 25 July 2025
Trashing Nature for unnecessary Metro tram extension
TO: Our dear Nature criminals who are obsessed with Metro trams destroying two of our mainline railways and, now this destruction - our only hope for Nature to fight back against concrete, brick and tarmac - everywhere - worsening their self-declared 2019 Climate Emergency!
That is really horrible Tim.. well done for going after them. What do you want me to do?On Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 16:27:43 BST, Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com> wrote:Every single tree and shrub has been grubbed up, here:
apart from the trees in the far left, far distance, on the other side of the canal at the top of the embankment directly above the car in the photo.Can your Dudley volunteer take a look, with me, to see how valuable the flowers and grasses are between the gabions and the post and rail fence above the road, called 'Embankment', in the photo - please? A botanical paradise? And a possible SSSI at Daniels Land, beyond the Dudley No 1 Canal in the photo.Many thanks for your help. Please reply.Tim Weller
Tim Weller's petition on Gaza
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733962/sponsors/new?token=jpL93KxcQbbQmtMmTkdP
Sideways: Chasing Peace - Matthew Syed on what caused the 2nd WW
"History has shown us the dangers of agreements that end violence on the surface while leaving deeper tensions and grievances unhealed. Most of us learn in school that World War 2 didn't erupt in a vacuum. Its roots were tangled in the aftermath of the First WW, not least in the Treaty of Versailles. Though it officially ended the war, it did so by imposing heavy reparations, humiliation and blame on Germany. Rather than fostering reconciliation, it fed resentment, economic hardship and, nationalist fervour, ultimately setting the stage for another devastating global conflict. And maybe one of the lessons we can learn from this darker side of our history and from Betty Bigombe's experience is that real peace isn't just the absence of war."
Thursday, 24 July 2025
to Kelvin Crombie of CMJ UK
Sunday, 22 September 2024
Presentation on 'The Last Words of Moses' - my own words on the matter
Dear Aaron - Aaron Eime of CMJ UK
I much enjoyed meeting you at Hasbury Community Church and found your excellent address full of interesting details and insights. The Lord has blessed you with great eloquence, and a great memory and intelligence. You have a superb style of delivery that engages the attention of your audience. Most attractive.
I have a somewhat jaundiced opinion of humanity's unhappy tenure of this planet to date and, with the record of Israel's leaders and kings in the Old Testament. And no better since 1945, with the revelation of one Christian nation's horrifying holocaust, after centuries of European wicked oppression and persecution of the Jews; plus, Western and Christian wars around the globe followed, with dear Bibi being the final straw for my sensitive conscience. Hence, not surprisingly, you kindly commented that you totally disagreed with me. Great!
You said you did not want a two-state solution but, presumably, Jews/Christians and Arabs living together in peaceful co-existence. EXACTLY! However, it does not help when we Jews/Christians/Westerners continue our imperialistic endeavours of being the dominant, controlling force throughout the world. Hence, we decide unilaterally, what happens to our subjects whether they be the black peoples of past centuries or today's Arabs, Muslims, Gazans, Palestinians, Lebanese. This is called apartheid governance where we White Europeans/Americans remain firmly in control over every other human group with the wrong colour skin. We see it in our US/UK/EU member or representative, Israel, in the heart of the Arab, Muslim Middle East. That tragedy began out of the disastrous 1914-18 World War and continued with our British Mandate over Palestine. And has never ended, with our allies Israel and Saudi Arabia as the All Dominating Powers in the Middle East.
We are all turning the Greater Promised Land, from the Jordan to the Sea, a land flowing with milk and honey, into a desert of death and destruction, "an unlivable wasteland" - awash with the blood and the tears of the people of non-violence like me and of the violent. First Gaza and now Lebanon. Because of Old Testament barbaric, brutal, war crime ethics instead of New Testament ethics of repentance, reconciliation and forgiveness. We all know what Yahweh wants.
Our Hebrew/Christian Bible seems to be inspiring our side, our representative Israel to "utterly destroy" (exterminate) Amalek
Aaron, in your talk, you even mentioned the annihilation of the Amalekites by the people of Israel that was commanded by the God of Israel. I know at least one Israeli government minister has talked of doing exactly the same to the Palestinians. The Jewish annihilation of the Amalekites was many centuries before the Nazis attempted the same wickedness on the People of Yahweh but, this time, failed. It looks to me as though modern-day Israel is bringing the same atrocities on the Palestinians and Lebanese. Have the Jews learnt nothing?
Listen to the horrors on BBC Sounds, Radio 4's 6 pm News on 14 Oct 2024, 08:35 from the beginning to 13:20 (nearly five minutes of OUR war crimes).
I started off so well for the first thirty years, too! I was brought up in an evangelical Christian family, was soon converted and spent my late teens and twenties on summer beach missions in England and Wales.
The problem is that as I have read widely, listened widely, thought deeply and been preached at for decades, including Linda's eloquent talks at church (my wife), I remain disappointed by my Christian friends' embracement of coercion, force, and violence on other peoples.
My God is my conscience and the God revealed in the life and teachings of my Master, Jesus Christ - the very best monarch out of a terrible bunch of miscreants from around the world, including those in the Bible.
Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see." It starts with personal integrity and example. In addition, all we have is the power of the pen and word. Much mightier and more moral than the US/UK/Israel sword that has solved nothing since 1945 but only ratcheted up the mutual hatred between the unhappy Children of Abraham, especially in the unHoly Land. Violence begets violence. War has not achieved peace for Israel.
I was honestly impressed by your good self, Aaron. I genuinely think highly of you and wish you every blessing and goodness throughout your days.
By the way, the most Christian book ('I Shall Not Hate') I have ever read was by a Palestinian. Details of the author here, from Wikipedia:
"Izzeldin Abuelaish OOnt MSC is a Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor and author. He was born in Gaza, and was the first Palestinian doctor to work in an Israeli hospital and has been active in promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. During the Gaza War in January 2009, his three daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli tank fire directed at his home. He had been calling in reports about the effect of the war by phone to a TV station. In his regularly scheduled report, in tears, he described their killing on-air, in a video that was widely circulated in Israel and around the world."
FROM COLIN:
"Very good, well said. I would be very interested to see Aaron's response, if you get one. Whatever the seeds of the current war, I can't use that to justify the actions of power greedy, egotistical men who have hijacked religion to befuddle the minds of the gullible. It is in the hands of Iranian & Israeli Gvts to end the slaughter. That they both seek the entire destruction of each other based on the writings of thousands of years ago signifies to me the shallowness of their morality. The persistence of violence is a matter of political will as is an end to it."
With every good wish and blessing be upon you, Kelvin