Continuing with our anti-war demos. Actually what’s happening in the Middle East can barely be described as a ‘war’ in the traditional meaning of the word. A better description would be ‘murder war’ in response to an insurrection. That being murdering as many people as possible to crush their legitimate aspirations of freedom and sovereignty over their ancestral lands. It should have been expected from the very beginning when in 1948 the Palestinians were punished for crimes committed by the Germans. Wrong in every way it could be, even Albert Einstein thought the creation of Israel a mistake.
If Israel has any ambition of surviving into the next century, then this massacre must stop and negotiations begin whilst that remains possible. They can’t count on mama United States to forever protect them from the consequences of their undeniable crimes, and the Arabs are winning hearts and minds, are becoming stronger in unity, and increasingly are better armed. Israel’s nuclear deterrent will be null and void when the creators of advanced mathematics build an arsenal of their own, something not lost on the Israeli far-right. The greatest threat to Israel’s survival is not what they call ‘human animals,’ but rather the Israeli far-right whose imbecility is only matched by their coward cruelty.
Our demos have somewhat shrunk in number of participants, but not in passion and I think we can say it is having an effect. Our government, who are for the most part decent Aussies, have changed tack on questions of Palestinian sovereignty and put up barriers to war criminals and far right Israeli extremists from entering the country. A wise step away from Australia being branded a supporter of genocide by all nations other than the United States.
Off topic, but I can’t help having a dig. Below is a drawing done by Michelangelo of his boyfriend Tommaso dei Cavalieri. I was led to believe he was the model for Michelangelo’s “David’, but apparently not, the claim is that ‘David’ was sculptured from imagination and knowledge of human anatomy. I find that a bit hard to believe, there’s no reason the artist would not have used a model. For sure there were plenty of young men with decent bodies in the backstreets of renaissance Florence.
