Don Quixotes travels

Israel are correct. There is ‘no moral equivalence’ between them and Hamas. The State military terror regime and its brutal occupation of Palestine is far more lethal and deadly than a Islamist resistance movement. Israel’s military killing machine is 40 times more lethal, barbarous and destructive for civilians. Hamas committed an atrocity on one day, the Israeli war planes, bombs, drones, quadcoptors, tanks and guns have assailed Gaza’s population every single day for now, over 400 days. Near to 80% of its buildings inhabitable, civilians fired upon while being forced into displacement camps. Most Hospitals destroyed, those open without anaesthetics, pain killers or oxygen to treat childrens mutilated and amputated bodies. Schools, aid centres, mosque’s, ambulance’s, journalists, medics and nurses systematically targeted. Hamas kidnapped innocent hostages and holds them underground. The IDF for decades have kidnapped young people and children and detained them in military jails witho...

  No Justice, No Peace   A Two-State solution (Revisited) A single, secular, democratic State of Palestine for Jews and Arabs, protecting Islam, Christianity and Judaism, ending Zionist Colonialism, is a beautiful but I believe, delusional ideal. Not only that, awaiting the ideal and denying a compromise already agreed by the PLO 30 years ago(universally accepted as the ‘sole representative of the Palestinian people’) would be like western ‘revolutionary communists’ endlessly waiting for the ‘proletarian revolution’ while condemning participation in the democratic process under capitalism.  Increasingly, some on the left, and other Pro-Palestinian voices in the Western world, are taking on an aggressive tone in dismissing ‘Two-Stater’s’ as sell- outs. This is a position that deserves to still be taken seriously, despite the corruption and collaboration by Abbas and other elements of the PA. I point specifically to Marwan Barghouti, the leader who consistently comes top of...

It is now 12 months since the October 7th massacre, a day of terror and lethal violence suffered    by largely Israeli civilians,    perpetrated by Hamas and other armed groups. There were mass casualties and 251 Israelis kidnapped and held as hostages in Gaza with just over a hundred believed to still be alive. Let’s be clear, the following is no excuse for the October 7th atrocity. No historical suffering can be used to justify the attack on the civilians involved. However it can help us to understand the context, the motivations but also make comparisons with Israel’s violence.  It is also now 365 continuous days, and counting, of terror and lethal violence suffered by Palestinian civilians and armed combatants. An act of vengeance and collective punishment so destructive and disproportionate, that it has resulted in Israel being taken to the International Court of Justice for ‘Genocide’ and the ICC putting together arrest warrants under the ‘Geneva Conventio...

A number of questions arise in the wake of increasing far-right terrorist attacks. The obvious, like how he can legally obtain a gun and without mental health checks?  The link between, Norway, New Zealand and US shootings is a fascist, White Supremacist ideology/meme, that is being aped in more ‘moderate’ Conservative circles. That is ‘The Grand Replacement Theory’. The belief that White Europeans are being replaced by non-whites and therefore, ‘our way of life’ is under attack along with Christianity(despite the vast majority of Black populations in the US/EU being Christian). Under this warped theory, white people are facing an existential crisis and so need to unify and oppose any ‘Liberal’ or ‘Woke’ ‘collaboration with the enemy’- meaning non-white immigrants and Liberal/Woke/Left wing ideologies, policies or activists.  The above, is of course classic fascism, not ‘concern about immigration’ but ultra Nationalist ‘purity’, Supremacy of people from European decent. Howeve...

 Vive la France! Thank you people of France for rejecting Fascism, yes too many voted for it, but opposition to it being an emerging force in European politics, needed to be forcibly stated.  Make no mistake, this was not a vote in favour of Macron and neo liberalism, the parliamentary elections will be very different if polls are correct. Worryingly, much of the media in the Uk seemed to naively accept le Pen’s assertion that her Party’s change of name and taming of extreme language, only meant we were dealing with a ‘far right’ populist Party, rather than what it is, and always has been, a fascist party. Le Pen is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, underneath, she’s a fascist like her father and a vanguard of her supporters.  Fascists have learnt that the skinhead image or military uniforms don’t work in the contemporary environment, but remember that fascism in Europe is usually elected, rather than taken by force. The complacency shown to the rise of what is known as ‘neo-fa...

  I thought I’d lost this blog but somehow I’ve retrieved it. Absolutely fascinating looking back.  Well that’s the good news. Not so, is pretty much everything else. Dad died last May from a horrible illness, MSA. I miss him. Mum, at this moment, is locked up in a secure unit under the mental health act. I, though not locked up, am hypomanic again, last time was 2019/20. Its been 5months now, maybe flattening out a little. Usually its followed by months of depression, I do hope not. I’m hoping a change of medication will help. Still waiting on the community mental health team to action it.  On top of the stress of mums decline and bipolar relapse, is worrying physical symptoms. I’ve had two courses of steroids and antibiotics for breathlessness, cough, tight chest, Blood pressure through the roof and just fatigue. I’m now referred to a specialist, but will have to wait god knows how long to be seen. I read the start of this blog and my comments on New Labours handling of...