For Abercynafon meet up on 11June 2025

 

1. Eighteen years after our 1896 exuberant and triumphalist hymn was published all about a "kingdom of love and light", and of singing a song that "shall conquer evil", we blundered so hurriedly into a totally unnecessary and the most foolish war in the history of humanity.  So much for "shattering the spear and sword"!
2. That war led to the Middle East being blessed with our British and French empires and all the horrors for the poor inhabitants of Palestine and Lebanon, Jews and Arabs, who simply wanted to be left alone from yet more foreign invaders.
3. It was a Christian nation, now on our side, which was responsible for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
4. It is our great friend and ally in the Middle East, the Jews and Arabs of Israel who are prosecuting the current war with "82 percent of respondents reportedly supported the forcible expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, while 56 percent supported expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel."  FROM https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-06-04/ty-article-opinion/.premium/do-82-of-israelis-really-back-expulsion-of-gazans-the-data-tells-a-different-story/00000197-39da-da41-a9f7-3dde468d0000
5. ONE READER'S COMMENT:  During a time of high emotion and misinformation, I doubt if any poll results reflect the fundamental beliefs of anyone.
   That said, the fact that there are a significant number of Israeli Jews who call for the deportation of Palestinian Israeli citizens is very troubling. Israel's medical infrastructure will collapse if it weren't for the fact that 25% of all doctors, 27% of all dentists, 35% of all nurses and 49% of all pharmacists in Israel are Palestinians. There is a serious cognitive dissonance in Israel's Jewish society when the very people who profess that they will be more secure if all Palestinians were deported, yet will put their lives in the hands of Palestinian medical professionals every day.
   This dissonance is the result of years of brainwashing and probably makes any poll numbers suspect regarding Jewish attitudes towards Palestinians.

To this very day, our Western, traditional Christian beliefs and values, demand drones and air strikes and bullets and buildings crumpled into dust and ashes to so nicely wipe out tens of thousands of evil Hamas men, women and children.