TRIUMPH OF EVIL

There are things in this world that make my blood boil. An idiom to indicate extreme anger. What I was witnessing today, being televised by BBC News, was a re-enactment of a scene from The Godfather during which the bosses of the five families have come together to make a bargain for peace. It was a meeting organised at the Israeli Knesset leading up to an address by Donald Trump. All the parties were introduced at the beginning of the session, each receiving applause, followed by opening remarks of such gargantuan sycophancy which carried on throughout the whole of the session, until I could no longer watch. It was an insult to the entire world leadership of the United Nations, in praise of a convicted felon, fraudster and gangster, hardly even surpassed by Putin. Corruption was heaped on corruption. 

Having laid waste the whole of Gaza and virtually elbowed the Palestinian people from the West Bank, in contravention of numerous UN resolutions and International Law, the Netanyahu ‘family’ seek to elevate their chief facilitator to some kind of sainthood. They do this in the hope that a Palestinian State should never be recognised, and that their saviour will help prevent it. They are pulling troops out just far enough to maintain a frightful presence. They leave behind them a corroded desert of squalor. They have poisoned the well and all the life saving supplies of food and medicines, that they had withheld, are now being fought over by the vermin they have left behind. How does anyone have the gall to call this a peace. Shooting has not stoped in Gaza!

Netanyahu has already warned the Israeli people that this is but a temporary cessation of fire and  they must remain vigilant until the ‘threat’ has ceased. He will make sure that the threat never goes away. The Haganah and the Irgun are still fighting in the Middle East just as viciously has they did 80 years ago. To  call them the IDF is just a newish label. Nothing will change until they return to humanity. Their vengeance has prevented any road to reconciliation with the equally indigenous people of the Middle East. Rather their suppression and bigotry towards the Palestinians as a whole increased the resentment and created the likes of Hamas and others seeking their own retaliation and vengeance. 

What we are witnessing today is hardly a triumph of will, but a triumph of evil. Outrageous claims that the cycle is over is a fantasy only in the brain of Donald J Trump. Netanyahu will try to keep it there in  the hope of extracting as much personal benefit from it as he can. In the meantime Trump scarfs up the world and shits on it. There will be no real peace so long as he reigns. The greatness that was once America is no longer. I am sorry to be so pessimistic, but this charade that we are witnessing is hurtful, and all I can see is the nightmare around the corner. If there is any decency left in the United States, they will vote next November to rebalance the powers, bring this regime to heel and get rid of him and his ilk altogether in 2028.