Inevitability of war

IT doesn’t take much imagination to draw parallels between what has happened over the last handful of decades in the Middle East and specifically to Palestine, to the fate that befell the native inhabitants of the Americas, Australia and Africa after they were “discovered” and reluctantly incorporated into “The Anglosphere”.

I’ve no idea what the common man in the UK knew or cared about what was happening in the days of the British Empire but it is obvious to me and should be to anyone with the wit to tie their own shoelaces that the majority of British citizens are diametrically opposed to the policies currently being pursued by Westminster. That our unelected Foreign Secretary can continue to facilitate the supply of arms to Israel to be used in the obliteration of Gaza while ignoring what is happening there and on the West Bank is simply unacceptable (“UK will allow exports to Israel”, The Herald, April 11). He also ignores the fact that in contravention of international law Israel is an occupying force in Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights and is also bombing and killing in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. That Lord Cameron does so in the face of the almost unanimous condemnation of the membership of the UN and while steadfastly refusing to reveal to the electorate the legal advice given to him on which he bases that policy is beneath contempt.

I can’t help but wonder that if there were no oil in the Middle East just where else in the world the fighting would be taking place and what resource the Establishment would be trying to exploit at the expense of the lives of its native population. War, one way or another, has always been about the Establishment preserving its wealth or enriching itself. The deliberate murder of 15,000 Palestinian children obviously means nothing to those who pull the strings.