Saturday, 7 June 2025

to my very own Cllr Tom

Dear Tom

This thought has just occurred to me:-

To what extent has persecution of the Jews over many centuries, culminating in the Holocaust by our ancestors, followed by Jewish terrorism from 1945 to gain Palestine as their homeland; plus, Zionist success with British surrender and withdrawal in 1948; led to the Jews/Zionists/Israelis being so bellicose and so victorious in every single war over their enemies ever since?  Yet, they never live in peace and justice, live in constant fear of more attacks, and security is their no 1 priority.  How tragic.

Or, is their oppression, coercion and violence because America and the West arm them to the teeth as our Western/Christian/democratic HQ in the centre of the Arab/Muslim Middle East?  Israel is holding the fort for us and is upholding liberal democracy.  Hence, we support and arm them and let them be the only holder of WMD in the Middle East.  Hardly balanced!

Have our centuries of violent behaviour towards the Jews meant their violent behaviour against the Palestinians and other Arabs, who could never accept the UN resolution of 1947 to share the land?  Especially, when it seems that European/Christian violence against the Jews, was very much more than Arab/Muslim towards them, the Jews?

Has the victim of oppression, Palestine, suffered much more grievously than the perpetrator of oppression in every Arab struggle to overthrow the Jews in Palestine?  And, we Brits were responsible for fleeing/deserting Palestine because of terrorism in 1948.  We Brits threw in the towel!  Defeated by terrorism to leave the situation we have now - for 77 years and rising!  There was also our duplicitous ("perfidious Albion") behaviour and partiality/preference/bias to Jews between the World Wars when we governed Palestine under the British Mandate from the League of Nations.

Perhaps, Tom read two relevant chapters on Gaza from Jeremy Bowen's 'The Making of the Modern Middle East' (pub 2022).  Hardback copy can be obtained by the Halesowen Library.  I'm re-reading the library's paperback copy.
Do listen to this week's 'The Today Debate' on BBC Sounds.  Find it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002d0d7

Former Israel PM, Ehud Olmert, in a speech said,
"How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together. If we are to overcome such fear, a credible and healthy political process must be carefully and painfully developed. A political process that does not aim to change the other or to overcome differences, but that allows each side to live peacefully in spite of their differences."[11]    FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Olmert

Best wishes

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