Friday, 17 October 2025

Peace in our time?

 The big world events are still not settled to the point you can easily pick one topic and be fairly sure there will not be major reverse in this crazy modern world nothing is like that  - leaders don't appear to be in control of events.

It is good that hostages, prisoners and detainees have been released in Gaza and Israel  but the 20 point plan is woefully lacking detail and yet President Trump of the Disunited States of America believes he has secure the biggest peace  in that part of the world in over 3,000 years which is absolute moonshine.

For one thing most of these steps haven't even made the most rudimentary steps on the path to implementation and for another some things such as the role (if any) of Hamas in any future Gaza authority hasn't been decided and if not just what happens with them. Do turkeys vote for Christmas?

That's before we consider any question of a Palestinian state, what its borders should be given the territories that were occupied in 1967 and 1973 following Arab declarations of war  and substantial settlements that may well be illegal under International Law but nonetheless are there that will complicate any attempt to incorporate them. And then such a state would need to have an agreement NOT to wage war with Israel for them to even accept it given the bloody history since 1948 where any neighbouring Arab state has been used a springboard for attacks and invasions.

That would need a major political seachange in the Arab Worlds mindset to give up the notion of seeing Israel's creation as being the occupation of Arab lands to be fought back and major more on economic and political growth of the entire region to improve the lot of all including those Palestinians who needed to move.  And god knows they deserve a better feature.

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