History shows how Christian believers are influential for the good

Dear Jeremy

In the 1640s, British evangelicals were Cromwell's core base when the Bible believing, God fearing Puritans became the one government in our history to put to trial and to execute the only monarch in our one thousand year old history.  King Charles 1 was executed in January 1649.

Christians played a part in the abolition of slavery and the ending of empire building around the world.

In this century, American evangelicals have been part of Bibi Netanyahu's and Donald Trump's core base in their support for Bibi and the election of Donald in their prosecution of war in the Middle East to bring lasting peace, prosperity and security for all in the region.

In this decade, Halesowen evangelicals could be central in the fight to mitigate and adapt to the Climate Emergency which Dudley Council declared in 2020.

In either the 1990s or the 00s, the national highway authority at the time, did the most magnificent and extensive nature recovery programme on the central reservation of Manor Way that there has ever been on that section of road.  However, it was soon partly destroyed by the major carriageway reconstruction programme carried out by national highways.

There did remain the thick section of trees, shrubs and plants opposite the new Maybank housing development.  It was the same further east between Manor Lane traffic lights and Lapal Lane South where the planting was clear felled to make way for the carriageway works.

After many years of writing to the authorities asking for the reinstatement of the earlier scheme, I was eventually rewarded by the planting of the cherry trees where, previously there had been a thick and extensive woodland of trees and shrubs - exactly like what remains opposite Maybank.  The cherry tree planting was NOT full reinstatement which the authorities should have carried out after the carriageway reconstruction.

However, they still have the opportunity to act positively and constructively in the international efforts to slow Climate breakdown.

I would like, if there is majority support, for our church eco-group to write an email to Dudley Council asking for the reinstatement of the nature recovery programme that they have shown is possible, practical and, was once done by national highways decades ago.

Christian/Bible values remain foundational to Americans

The Pilgrims landed in America on November 21, 1620, in what is now Provincetown Harbour, Massachusetts.  They were English Protestants who believed in the authority of the Bible for all matters related to faith and daily living.  They were the foundation of the modern USA.  Yet, we have had 400 years of internal killings with many tens of thousands of the indigenous Indians slaughtered, as well as more Americans dead in the 1860s Civil War than were killed in SE Asia from 1959 to 1975 - 58,000 with two or three million SE Asians wiped out by American soldiers.

"The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, over the issue of slavery. It resulted in the dissolution of the Confederate States, the abolition of slavery, and the death of over 600,000 soldiers and civilians."  Wikipedia

History shows how Christian believers are influential

In the 1640s, British evangelicals were Cromwell's core base when the Bible believing, God fearing Puritans became the one government in our history to put to trial and to execute the only monarch in our one thousand year old history.  King Charles 1 was executed in January 1649.

Christians played a part in the abolition of slavery and the ending of empire building around the world.

In this century, American evangelicals have been part of Bibi Netanyahu's and Donald Trump's core base in their support for Bibi and the election of Donald in their prosecution of war in the Middle East to bring lasting peace, prosperity and security for all in the region.

In this decade, Halesowen evangelicals could be central in the fight to mitigate and adapt to the Climate Emergency which Dudley Council declared in 2020.

In either the 1990s or the 00s, the national highway authority at the time, did the most magnificent and extensive nature recovery programme on the central reservation of Manor Way that there has ever been on that section of road.  However, it was soon partly destroyed by the major carriageway reconstruction programme carried out by national highways.

There did remain the thick section of trees, shrubs and plants opposite the new Maybank housing development.  It was the same further east between Manor Lane traffic lights and Lapal Lane South where the planting was clear felled to make way for the carriageway works.

After many years of writing to the authorities asking for the reinstatement of the earlier scheme, I was eventually rewarded by the planting of the cherry trees where, previously there had been a thick and extensive woodland of trees and shrubs - exactly like what remains opposite Maybank.  The cherry tree planting was NOT full reinstatement which the authorities should have carried out after the carriageway reconstruction.

However, they still have the opportunity to act positively and constructively in the international efforts to slow Climate breakdown.

I would like, if there is majority support, for our church eco-group to write an email to Dudley Council asking for the reinstatement of the nature recovery programme that they have shown is possible, practical and, was once done by national highways decades ago.

Obviously, Jeremy, if the majority do not wish for one email to be written, the email cannot be sent.

I can well understand your consternation!

It was brilliant to have someone responding and objecting to my writings!

I might respond to your comments in stages over the coming days, if you don't mind!  I wonder if you can put up with my very minority stance on the issues in my previous email over Dudley's lack of concern over the matters I highlighted.  Anyway, this as Response 1:

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

I can well understand your consternation!

We Brits love wars and are fueling and funding and profiting from our war on the Gazans, the Lebanese and the Iranians.  Here is a non-violent war which is honourable, absolutely right and something which is so easy to agree on!:

We Brits, nowadays, don't declare war but we always fully support our friends, like America and Israel, when they go to war. Inaccurate and unfair comment.  UK has given very minimal support to the US/Israel attack on Iran, much to the chagrin of Trump.

Many of America's attacks on Iran since the 28 February have been from their USAF bases in England.  Keir Starmer quickly changed his mind and agreed to the illegal and immoral attacks from little ol' England - America's largest aircraft carrier.

I consider even minimal support to America/Israel makes us complicit in war crimes.  In fact, it appears to be much more than minimal support.  Spain, Netherlands, ROI have said and done much to show their displeasure at Israel's war crimes, their horror at our disproportionate and indiscriminate slaughter and the recent abuse and ill treatment of over 400 activists from forty countries when they were arrested by Israel in international waters.  Israel, remember is our big friend and ally since 1948 when we withdrew from Palestine and let them get on with claiming the land as the spoils from victory in war. 

We have always prided ourselves on our special relationship with the Americans because we started the white man's exodus over the waves to take over the continent for the English speaking peoples.  We have been the unofficial 51st state but we are now challenged by Israel for that position.

We fully support America and Israel because we have never countenanced boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on either of our two close friends for their aggression since 1945.  The blatant aggression in so many parts of the world were nearly always (I think I'm right in saying) without the full approval of resolutions from the United Nations.  There must be an honourable exception, somewhere and I will do further research!  Our 2001 attack on Afghanistan after 9/11 did have some support from the UN.  But our 20 year occupation was a catastrophe for the country, according to Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's International Editor.

Dudley Council's two wars

We Brits love wars and are fueling and funding and profiting from our war on the Gazans, the Lebanese and the Iranians.  Here is a non-violent war which is honourable, absolutely right and something which is so easy to agree on!:

We Brits, nowadays, don't declare war but we always fully support our friends, like America and Israel, when they go to war.  But we did declare a National Climate Emergency in 2019.

More plants and healthy soils are the best way to capture some of the CO2 we pump out.  YET ...

Our Dudley Council declared their Emergency in 2020.  It seems, nothing has changed because they stubbornly continue their war on Nature and, in addition, declare a war of Negligence!

Dudley's war on nature:

• For the 50 years I have lived in Halesowen there remains the largest (30 m) UK roundabout on my doorstep without a single blade of grass or weed - my own efforts were removed!
• For over 20 years Dudley refused to fully reinstate the rich woodland habitat on the central reservation of the A456 dual carriageway between the barren, bare, all-tarmac Grange roundabout and Lapal Lane South.
• The council refuses to turn Lapal Lane South/Manor Way triangle into a pocket woodland and to enhance the footway to make it safer for walkers to join our footpath network in our Golden Green Triangle of countryside.
• In an act of ecocidal folly, 100 metres of grass, trees and shrubs have been buried at Merry Hill for the spanking new Dudley 'Donald Trump' Tram being built to the shopping centre. 

Dudley's war of negligence:

• Today, I noticed, growing grasses hinder the vital sight line at A456 eastbound with Jct 3, M5 roundabout.
• The council refuses to cut the grass back from the carriageway edge on Manor Way, preferring an annual cut of the whole wide central reservation which hinders Nature's recovery and the mitigation of Climate breakdown.
• Dudley's vast landfill site at Gornal/Gornalwood remains open to the public when the officer responsible told me that there is a cocktail of poisonous gases venting from it.
• In one part, alongside, is Dudley's 5Kms of cycle-walkway which remains a disgrace, in contrast to our neighbouring councils 15 Kms sections to the north.
• Active travel instead of fossil fool travel is one of the best ways to respond to the Climate Emergency.  Dudley MBC thinks otherwise.

When your political and/or​ religious beliefs

When your political and/or​ religious beliefs lead to oppression and slaughter of your neighbours there is something fundamentally wrong with them.

​Isn't this exactly what always goes on​? Everyone in power, from the Judeo-Christian world of Great Powers to the BRIC nations, all use oppression, domination, violence and warfare to maintain and entrench their position. ​ Hence, our triumphalist behaviour in making the most of Russia's discomfiture in losing their former satellite states and even the Warsaw Pact being disbanded.  We took advantage and swept eastwards in glorious victory at our good fortune in picking up more members for NATO and the EU.  Thus:

Provoking Putin, no 1

We boast that we won the Cold War, when it was Russia who decided that it was no longer going to play the little boys' game of who can acquire the most weaponry and compliant satellite states. 

Provoking Putin, no 2

The Warsaw Pact disbanded and we acquired three or four of their members into NATO.​  After all, there's was an offensive pact of Communist nations, anyway, set up after we had formed NATO to ensure the Soviets would never attack us.  Remember, the wicked Communists had only helped us to win two world wars that were all the fault of Germany, anyway.  Germany, the nation which arms little ol' 'David' Israel against the 'Goliath' hordes of Palestinians and antisemites like me!  Germany, the Christian nation which taught the Jews how to do holocaust/genocide/eternal wars.

Provoking Putin, no 3

Overthrowing his man in Kyiv​, properly and fairly elected, to put in our Western backed ​pro EU Zelensky.

​Provoking Putin no 4

Crowing/boasting/rejoicing and taking full advantage as the USSR collapsed.  Unable to show empathy over the loss of the Russian 'empire' but simply incorporating the old enemy's friends into our sphere of influence/empire/war chest.

Provoking Putin, no 5

Being in a hurry to unite Germany before they changed their mind.  What did the West say to Moscow in the 90s about reunification and NATO?  Nothing was written down, apparently.

Provoking Putin no 6

Germany too friendly with Russia?  What was all that about, Paddy when you were speaking to me about Angela Merkel and Gerhard Schroeder?  I think you were not impressed with them building Nord Stream.  The understatement of the year?!

These jaundiced views of mine were influenced by reading the sobering 2024 book by Martin Sixsmith with Daniel Sixsmith - 'The Return of History: how the Kremlin rekindled the Cold War'.  Martin was BBC Moscow correspondent in the 90s.

The arrogance and criminality of American, British and Israeli leaders

These misguided aggressors have wreaked havoc on the world since 4 August 1914 with the blessing of naive people who allow themselves to be conscripted into killing to 'solve' problems.

Water wastage on a grand scale at Windsor Great Park

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/england-harvest-rainfall-water-usage-shortages-house-of-lords-report?CMP=share_btn_url

“England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn”

Yet, on yesterday’s visit, I saw the three most enormous, industrial scale, sprinklers well and truly dowsing Smith’s Lawn with 100% pure, fresh water.
Was this really necessary at the end of a cool, showery spell of weather and at the beginning of a dry period which may last most of the summer?
You were using a prodigious amount of water when my wife and I are using washing up water after cleaning the dishes, to water our garden. Setting you all a very good example!
Please put your point of view in reply. THANK YOU!

Comment re Anita's blog post

Once again, I read every word, admired every photo and so enjoyed hearing about all the good, the bad and the indifferent aspects of this brilliant adventure by all you wonderful young things. I still love exploratory adventures myself but mainly in the high hills of Scotland and on my own. But I wait, 'cos I'm 78 years, for high pressure to descend on the hills. I'm still cycling, sometimes to cut down on driving, two to four times a week.

Thanks for a great, entertaining read that made me smile in delight!

Tim Weller (Dad of Becky Willson, another great cyclist and adventurer)

to Pre-Metro Operations re Shuttle tram for Black Country Railway

Dear Cat

It is simpler and cheaper to re-introduce commuter and freight trains on the principal mainline railway

 "of national strategic significance".pdf

between Stourbridge Jct and Brierley Hill (and, eventually to Burton on Trent/Derby).  This will take the pressure off our overheating Climate and congested roads.  The money saved, by keeping that section of line for heavy rail, should be used to extend regional Fare-Free Public Transport from my old crocks age group to you youngsters.

However, do use the Stourbridge Shuttle in a clockwise circuit from Town station to allow pedestrianisation of High Street and to link up with the large car park next to the Stourbridge Road Civic Amenity Site and then back to the Interchange.  I have previously sent Pre-Metro Operations a plan for their support for this suggestion but I don't recall receiving a reply.

In the 1990s and 00s I was writing to PTA/Centro in full support of John Parry.  We eventually got his PPM on the world's shortest branch line.  SUCCESS!

Do you remember that the whole purpose of Metro trams on the Black Country Railway

 "of national strategic significance".pdf

was to get the former, 100 year old successful passenger and freight trains back on that 120 Kms line between Worcester and Derby?  The constant mantra trotted out was:

THE LIE:

"Light rail investment provides the basis for restoring heavy rail services at the appropriate time."

Letter to Tim Weller from Tom Magrath, Passenger Services Director, Centro, 18th September 2000 (26 years ago!).

Andy Street, on one particular occasion when we met, was certainly wanting the reassurance from the officers at 16 Summer Lane, that trams would not stop the eventual full reopening of that railway "of national strategic significance". Therefore, heavy rail trains on that vital heavy rail line, NOT LR Metro or VLR/ULR Stourbridge Shuttle trams.

Do you agree with Andy Street and me that we must all urgently work towards that end?

Not just roughed up but beaten up

'We Were Like Animals': Gaza Flotilla Activists Detail Arrest by Israel

Speaking to Haaretz, activists who were detained by Israeli forces recall violence and harsh conditions 'I raised my hand because I couldn't walk... then a police officer reached in from the front to choke me,' recalled one

Activists who took part in the flotilla to Gaza told Haaretz on Thursday they were beaten and held in harsh conditions after Israeli forces took control of the vessels.

"[It was] very, very violent since the beginning," said one activist who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which attempted to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, about his detention by Israeli forces. Most of the detainees were released on Thursday and deported to Turkey after they had been held in Israel since Tuesday.

Our British foreign policy and parts of the Bible have ...

driven me into the hands of the antisemites - personally named as such by Lord Ian Austin (the former Dudley MP, where I live).

Stop supporting USA, Israel, UK attacks and oppressive behaviour towards Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Lebanon and Iran which makes me into an antisemitic in defence of these Muslim countries under the heel of the wild, wicked, Judeo-Christian West.

1 Samuel 15 v 3 - "Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."

The Bible is used by Israel's Cabinet to justify their spoken intent to wipe out or exterminate or annihilate all Gazans.  My side's 80 year old trenchant support for Israel is in sharp contrast to how the Judeo-Christian world abuses and behaves abominably towards weaker countries, like Venezuela, around the world.  We are the bullies, with Trump as the Big Bully in league with Bibi Netanyahu.  Both use never-ending violence and aggression to try and get peace and security.  However, Israel has never had it and never will while they live as the Bad Samaritan towards even one set of neighbours.  Their barren policy simply ups the anti from the poor people who are constant subjects of our side's revenge.  They (our side) are one trick ponies, in my opinion.

Transcript on how to produce our food

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. Modern, intensive farming systems producing pesticide-laced foods at scale, he says, are bad for us and bad for the planet. He believes that it is time to change the way we produce food today, making the case for sustainable agriculture. In 'Eat the Planet Well' he argues that consumers can lead this change, even where governments fail to act.

Go for a more biological route, says Minette Batters.

Minette Batters was the first female president of the National Farmers’ Union. Born and raised on the family farm that she took over running, she became a committed advocate for the UK farming industry. UK agriculture has faced challenges from Brexit, Covid as well as international conflict and energy crises. Her new book, Harvest, part memoir and manifesto, makes a case for how and why we must rally to support British farming and rural life.

17% live in rural areas in Britain, said Minette.

"We produce enough food to comfortably feed 10 bill people.  The pop of the globe is over 8 bill.  Yet many people are starving, 9% are undernourished, 30 to 40% of food is wasted.  What is going wrong?

"The current world food system is incredibly inefficient.  The industrial farming model is the biggest driver of global biodiversity collapse.  We are in the sixth mass extinction event, right now.  It contributes about 30% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  It damages the world soils and 40% are badly degraded.  And the whole system is really wasteful.  About a third of the food we produce gets thrown away, a third is fed to animals rather than directly to people which is an obscenely inefficient way to feed the world.  And on top of that the food we eat makes us ill.  We are eating the wrong stuff or eating heavily processed food, which is fueling an obesity epidemic around the world and diabetes.  So it is a shambles and we could be doing a lot better.

"My book is a guide as to how people can eat food with a lower footprint and more nutritious food rather than some of the junk that is available to us.

"There are 300,000 edible plant species/vegetable but we basically eat three: rice, wheat and maize.

"There is a joy to be had in growing and cooking your own food/meals.  More than 60% of the food we consume is ultra processed junk.  Too much of the food we produce is cheap, heavily processed and based on a tiny number of commodity crops rather than exploiting the amazing diversity of fruit and vegetables that we have available to us.

"We are part of nature so we need bees to pollinate our crops, healthy soils with earthworms to grow our food.  We need nature but most people don't appreciate that.

"We need farms to support biodiversity and farming in tune with nature.

"Beef accounts for a disproportionate part of the problem.  Globally speaking, the figures suggest that beef is one of the most environmentally damaging of products.  Its overall footprint is about 100 times that of growing vegetables.  As a way of feeding people it is not particularly efficient.  We shouldn't have 1.5 billion cattle in the world.  The methane gas emissions associated with that is a massive contributor to Climate Change.  They take a lot of land, a lot of feeding and GHG emissions from both ends.

"Our beef and dairy farming is based on grass to eat.

"In fact, grass fed cows are worse than grain fed.  It depends how you weight the area of land used, so cows do require a large area of grazing land to feed them, so if you count that as a negative in terms of amount of land used per unit of food produced, then grazing them outdoors is worse than having them indoors.  But outdoor cattle can be beneficial to the environment.  They are often used in nature reserves as a grazing tool to help promote biodiversity.

"Fertilisers can be devastating when they leach into waterways.  They cause eutrophication where you get algal bloom which is highly toxic and highly damaging to biodiversity.  So minimise the use of synthetic fertilisers and use livestock in a managed rotation to boost soil fertility and to build soil health.

"Allotments are essential for all to grow their own low carbon, sustainable food to promote biodiversity." 

Antisemitism is blown up out of all proportion when the Jews and Christians do this with their islamophobia!

Antisemitism bears no comparison with the viciousness, the atrocities from the islamophobics - ourselves! 

Our Judeo-Christian attacks are killing tens of thousands.  Muslim attacks in defence of their lands and in revenge are killing a tiny number in comparison.

An example of our side's wicked islamophobia - extracts from:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/09/israel-what-went-wrong-by-omer-bartov-review-the-long-view?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"Israel’s attack on Iran is only the most recent example of its degeneration in recent decades, coming on top of its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, genocide in Gaza, invasion of Syria and relentless bombardment of Lebanon. The fact that the US joined in this illegal war confirmed to many in the region what they have long suspected: that the country is an outpost of western imperialism in the Middle East." 

"In the early years of statehood, Israel was seen in the west as an icon of liberal, progressive and egalitarian society.

"Today, it is widely regarded as an immoral, violent, cruel and oppressive apartheid state. The Israeli response to the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 was a major milestone in the gradual slide to its status as an international pariah. Israel claimed the right to self-defence, but proceeded to act in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law."

"The moral and political degradation of Israel is the subject of this remarkable book. The author, Omer Bartov, has impeccable credentials for writing it: he was born on a kibbutz, he served as an officer in the IDF, and is currently professor of holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University in the US. It is dedicated to his father, Hanoch Bartov, “the last Zionist”, a reference to the liberal brand of Zionism to which the whole family were evidently dedicated. Yet this book is written more in sorrow than in anger. Its goal is not to condemn Zionism but to explain its evolution from a dream to a nightmare."

Avi Shlaim is an emeritus professor of international relations at the University of Oxford and the author of Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine. Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov is published by Fern Press (£20).

This article was amended on 14 May 2026. An earlier version said the ICJ found there was a “plausible risk of genocide in Gaza” This has been clarified to reflect that the court found that the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide was at risk.

Our Islamophobia is a Bigger Killer than Antisemitism

Being anti antisemitic (supporting Israel right or wrong) means being islamophobic

The Western Judeo-Christian nations are islamophobic and anti-Muslim in killing many tens of thousands of Muslims over the many wars they and Israel have fought since 1945.

Better to be called an antisemite, as I am by the two noble lords, Ian Austin and John Mann, for it means I strongly oppose anti-Muslim or islamophobia oppression and killing of Muslims in lands our side is attacking.

I think all our political parties, apart from the Greens, are so anti antisemitic in their love and support for the Jews/Israel that they have become anti Islam/Muslims, aka seriously islamophobic.

The general dislike of being accused of antisemitism means we are continuing to allow the Jews/Israel to get on with their war on the mainly Muslims of Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Lebanon and Iran.

It results in death and injury for many in those places but all of them, with Judeo-Christian Western support are keeping the people under the most appalling living conditions, quite apart from the fear of missiles, bombs and explosions, ALWAYS from OUR side. This is despicable, disgusting, disgraceful for our policy of anti antisemitism or unconditional military and economic support for Israel/USA for whatever they do.

Our side, in opposing antisemitism and therefore being islamophobic, displays the most shameful, anti-Muslim, death dealing behaviour in so solidly supporting and funding one side only - our Jewish friends - since the Jewish/Israeli terrorist gangs started their war in 1945 "to capture" (David Ben-Gurion) Palestine for themselves and to hold it to this day.

This is race hatred on quite a different scale

HEROES AGAINST SLAUGHTER, GENOCIDE, HATRED - the upright five, Eurovision boycotters and the four hate-filled nations - see below.

Attacks on the Jewish community are called antisemitism and have resulted in two Jews killed in the UK by an individual Muslim.

Attacks on the Muslim community in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Lebanon and Iran is called antimuslim or islamophobia or hatred towards Muslims.  These two years of attacks have resulted in many tens of thousands of children, women and men slaughtered who nearly all simply wanted to live in peace with their Jewish/Israeli neighbours.

The very small minority who wanted to kill Jews/Israelis, apart from the perpetrators of 7.10.23, were doing so in accordance with international law which allows Hamas fighters to defend their homeland of Gaza from Judeo-Christian-Western attacks.

This enormous extermination/genocide of Muslims is wholly the result of Israeli/Jewish/Christian hatred, funded and approved by her friends and allies, the USA, the UK, Germany and other Christian/European nations who have failed to stand up against these anti Muslim attacks on mainly Palestinian Muslims.

The honourable exceptions are the honourable boycotters of Eurovision, viz: Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and Iceland.

There is no global smear campaign against Israel/USA/UK/Germany, as Israel insists but a just campaign against these four nations hatred, oppression and slaughter of their fellow human beings.

Daniel Levy, President of the US Middle East Project, former Israeli peace negotiator is attending today's pro Palestinian rally in London.  He talked about the catastrophe of the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948.

"The UK government is still getting its policy wrong and that is why we have protest in this country as well", said Daniel Levy.

He said, "intifada in Arabic means awakening, a shaking off, uprising, it's about justice and some people centre it around justice for Palestinians, some around fighting global injustice but the go to place is violence but it is not the go to place for the vast majority using the term, intifada."

"It is a dangerous conflation that somehow protesting about Israel's injustice is protesting against Jews.  There are many of us Jews who see our Jewish values as intimately bound up in a universal ethic that we must stand up for the rights of all peoples."

from Wikipedia:

Daniel Levy (Hebrew: דניאל לוי) is a British–Israeli analyst, commentator, author, and former advisor to the Israeli government with expertise on Middle East and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He was formerly an Israeli negotiator as part of the Taba summit and Oslo 2 peace process. He is current president of the U.S./Middle East Project

Globalise the intifada means: Globalise the Struggle Against Hate Crime and Slaughter of Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranians by us lot of wicked Western Judeo-Christian reprobates.

The hypocrisy of the Judeo-Christian West for THEIR genocidal slaughter is mind blowing.

My response to 'A Short History of the First World War'

First World War links to Second and subsequent

Sarajevo's two gun shots were the starting gun for the full century and more of wars, courtesy of the people of violence in the Jewish/Christian world from 1914 through to today!  Perhaps, the Quakers, the Mennonites, the Amish and the JWs know something that the rest of Christendom does not? 

This foolish, first world war, from the adherents of the Jewish/Christian Bible, has meant that these good people have, so far, had 112 years of warfare around the globe to bring many millions of humans to a premature end to their lives.  A planet of people at war with itself, despite having the Bible example and teaching to live by!  Or are the violent, unacceptable parts of the Good Book, part of the problem?

Professor Gary Sheffield, in his 2014 book, 'A Short History of the First World War', believes the values that led to the 1914 war are different from those of 112 years on.  He wrote,

"We should try to see the First World War as contemporaries viewed it and seek to avoid excessive use of hindsight and the imposing of 21st century values on individual who lived 100 years ago." Page 3

Don't we need to have excessive use of morality and conscience?  Values don't change.  Greed for land, resources and domination of others is unchanging down the centuries.  The rich and powerful Judeo-Christian nations are most at fault for using military might to get their way.  The weak and powerless are most likely to meet an untimely end.  It was forever thus!

Again from Gary, "All historical writings must be judged in the context of the period in which they were produced."

This sounds so fine.  However, human behaviour does not change from one generation to the next.  Right and wrong are unchanging as we see with the values of the Ten Commandments, written about 3,500 years ago but still valid and both upheld and broken today.  Killing is wrong whether it is murder or done by elected politicians telling individuals to go and kill as part of the much loved government armed forces.

Page 3 title, 'The rise of German power' shows a refreshing lack of paranoia at the end of the 19th century before the 'strange' Kaiser got going in 1888.  Gary tells us that the lack of paranoia was down to Bismark's skill in orchestrating "a new international equilibrium" amongst the leaders of Britain, France, Austria-Hungary and Russia.  But all too soon undone.

On page 194, we read Gary wrote a letter in 'praise' of the world war, entitled "It was a great war.  One that saved Europe".  'The Times', 1 Feb 2014

Gary lays into people like me, on page xii: "the First World War prompts people (like me) to go public with views based on emotion, limited knowledge and flawed understanding."  Hence, I play into his hands by asserting that it is the people of violence who are far too ready to use violence to get their way.  It is called the militarisation of diplomacy.  Warfare is popular with the public and popular leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair have used 'success' in war to cash in on that.  PM Keir Starmer needs a war to boost his popularity.  Strong, warring PMs are much loved by the electorate.

When you have military might and power, it is all too tempting to use it to get your way.  Hence, WAR.  Unbalanced men like the Kaiser Wilhelm II who reigned (and thought he ruled) in Germany from 1888 to 1918, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump are good examples of "not all there" (Lord Salisbury concluded on meeting the Kaiser in 1891).  See page 4 for further examples of the Kaiser being "possibly mentally unbalanced."

from 'Preface' - quotes:

"sowed the seeds of fascism in Italy and Germany"

"It killed millions and brought the world, albeit not directly, to an even greater conflagration."

"It facilitated the rise of the USA to global power and so made capitalist democracy an ideological force to contend with Soviet Marxist-Leninism, setting the scene for the Cold War."

"The result of an appallingly destructive war was a post-1918 world that was less than ideal.  This led into a sense of futility, that the war had not been worth fighting."

"The Empire, not Europe was where potential threats lay."

From the last two lines of page 174, Gary quotes the common view that "a second round of hostilities (became) inevitable."  He says that this is too simplistic and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression brought the economic crisis and "aided the electoral growth of the Nazis."  Page 175

I maintain there was unfinished business with the unsatisfactory conclusion of the war so evenly balanced for four years but only one culprit getting it in the neck with reparations, to leave bitterness and revenge.  It could have gone either way at different points, even as early as 1914.  No one side should have thought they had won.  All of humanity lost out - big time - and, it has never ended, to this very day.

War is so addictive and irresistible for the great, wealthy and powerful nations - of which we are part in the UK, playing third fiddle to the Americans after the close USA/Israel partnership and their genuine special relationship.

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to Alex over Gas Regs

Dear Alex and team

SUMMARY over what I think needs to be done:

Gas regulations must be changed when, in future, gas users have their gas meters officially and professionally removed and then sealed to prevent leaks, as was the case in our home in November 2023.

MORE DETAIL:

To complete the modernisation of our home, to make it compliant with your government's insistence that there is a Climate Emergency which demands change by each of us, my wife and I completed our transition to Climate compliance by having the gas meter removed on the 30 November 2023.

Since 2024, I have received a number of letters from Cadent demanding access.  I have been unwilling to oblige so they have got on with the job, anyway.  Hence, for the first time in 2024, Cadent dug up the pavement twice to switch off the gas at the mains.  On the last occasion, two separate holes were dug out of the pavement.  This was in December 2025.  When that work was finally completed, I thought they must now - surely - have succeeded.  However, ...

Yesterday, two men arrived at my home, did a test to confirm that there was old gas left in the pipe (surprise, surprise; and professionally sealed where the old meter was, of course!), said the Gas Regulations demand every cubic gram of gas must be removed and intimated that my new £8,000 resin bound drive and steps, laid in October 2025 (last year!) to replace a decades old tarmac drive in poor shape, may need to be dug up to comply with the gas regs.

Even before the drive is dug up, this is costing incompetent Cadent thousands of pounds in visits to my home and in digging deep holes in the pavement at the bottom of the drive.  I may yet receive a bill for all this totally unnecessary work.  It is important that every one of your constituents begin the transition out of gas into renewable electricity from mainly the solar panels on the roof of their homes, with battery storage, as we have done.

Within ten years my wife and I are likely to be dead.  In less than ten years, the next occupants of the house may well want the gas restored to 28 Hunnington Crescent.  Hence, things should now be left as they are with no more expense for Cadent and me.

 

Please will you help, Alex and team, to get the gas regulations modified to be more sensible, reasonable and to comply with urgent Climate and finite Resource imperatives?

Thanks so much.    Tim   (Weller  28 Hunnington Cres  Halesowen)

FROM MY BLOG:

Saturday, 2 December 2023

Getting out of gas is complete with the meter taken out on 30 Nov '23

Our transition from gas to 100% electricity is now complete.  We had our gas meter removed, for free by Octopus, yesterday.  Now on 100% solar power and cheap grid electricity in winter, only, to help balance the grid.

The almost zero carbon home

Just seen, over last 12 months:- 2.6kWh/day of electricity imported from world oil, gas reserves. Our legacy is this low cost, energy efficient, solar powered home for a descendant to live in!

Last 12 months has seen gas used for water heating throughout the year and some for cooking. Next 12 months will be electricity for everything, so will be higher than 2.6 kWh per day (now, between 3 and 4 kWh/day). In the summer this house is a MAJOR mini power station.

Every building should be like this.

Reaction to 'Antisemitism bad; islamophobia ... good?'

What these two governments fail to recognise is the antisemitism now raising its head is the direct result of Israel's actions.

What's worse is that many people who secretly held vile antisemitic views are now expressing them openly, under the cover of the war.

As for the war itself, its difficult to see how it resolves. Netanyahu needs it to continue to stay out of jail. Trump needs it to continue until he can manufacture something that he can convince us all is a victory.

The only other route to peace would be for Iran to run out of weapons. But even then, the slaughter in Lebanon, Gaza & the West Bank would carry on.

Disturbingly, the indiscriminate killing of so many innocents has become so routine that no one seems to care anymore, at least until it impacts upon the cost of living.

Antisemitism bad; islamophobia ... good?

Dear Leaders of the Churches in Halesowen

Thursday, 14 May 2026

Quite rightly antisemitism is condemned ...

 ... when Jews are murdered on our streets. But, in shocking contrast it feels to me, there is no genuine horror over islamophobia resulting in many tens of thousands of children, women and men dying, who had no part in 7.10.23 and, before they died, wanted to live in peace and freedom from being slaughtered by Israel/USA, which is part of OUR side.

There is never boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) against our great friend and ally, Israel or the USA which backs Israel so wholeheartedly and enthusiastically with the latest WMD and conventional weaponry to kill Arab Palestinians wanting a slice of their land - and, exterminating Lebanese and Iranians too.

Some of the over 70,000 Muslims, Christians and other faiths (or none) killed were bound to be Hamas fighters lawfully defending their land from our side attacking them.

Also, shockingly, we use parts of our Bible as a weapon to justify our Amalekite-like genocide of mainly Muslim Palestinians in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Lebanon and Iran. This is disgusting, despicable and disgraceful and the wrong use of the Bible.  But why no protest in Halesowen, no letters written, no disquiet expressed and when it is on such an enormous scale of tens of thousands murdered by us, compared to antisemitism leading to a handful of murders in the UK?

In fact, two UK Jews murdered by an antisemite.  Compare that with many tens of thousands murdered by islamophobia attacks since 7.10.23 with Israel's disproportionate and indiscriminate war of aggression and revenge on Gaza.

Please put me right and give me your side of the matter.

ONE RESPONSE:

"What these two governments fail to recognise is the antisemitism now raising its head is the direct result of Israel's actions.

What's worse is that many people who secretly held vile antisemitic views are now expressing them openly, under the cover of the war."