Apologies all round... are maybe for another day
Love and truth matter
APOLOGIES all round.
An astounding consensus of apologies were made today to the Palestinian people.
The United Nations apologised at its New York HQ for stealing over half of Palestine in 1947.
A chastened and humbled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised for the UK military occupation of Palestine which lasted from 1917-1948.
The BBC apologised for its consistent use of Israeli regime press releases for news on Palestine.
The Grandfather of the Houses of Parliament apologised for the failure of the elite UK political class to do its duty to institute sanctions against the bloodthirsty regime genociding the Palestinians.
British academics apologised for their moral cowardice over Palestine.
The Labour Party apologised profusely to Corbyn.
“Corbyn foolishly recognised that the concept of human rights extended even to Palestinians. For this, he was politically assassinated by the Lobby”, said the smart-suited private-school and Oxbridgeeducated New Labour lawyer.
Today (as this is written) is April Fool’s Day.
Joseph O’Neill, via email
EVERYONE has their own perspective on what makes life unfair for all of us – and I am no exception to that general rule. I believe that the fundamental concept which makes life unfair for all of us has its routes in the word ‘money.’
There is an old saying that money is the root of all evil; and I believe that saying is as true today as it was when the saying was first coined.
In my view (and I am not saying that it’s impossible that I could be wrong in airing this view) a great deal of the unfairness that every one of us can see in this world that we all live in is derived from the power that goes hand in hand with the possession of a large amount of money.
I don’t have a solution to this perennial problem caused by money, but I believe that a better world would emerge if everyone would always tell the truth in every situation and also if every person had empathy for every other person in the world.
My own outlook towards all of the people in the world is that I love everyone on this planet. If you think that statement is hard to believe or understand – well, if I were able to write in this letter on another full page of foolscap paper; then I would be able to explain my thinking in this regard.
But, the editor of the MEN like other newspapers does have a limit to the amount of space that can be allocated to any one letter.
Howard Gardner, Sale