LAST week’s events highlighted two different approaches to the future. The first is backward-looking and rooted in the
delusion that the US andBiden’s disastrous trip to Israel, where no Arab leaders would meet with him, was an example. Another was the US being the lone “no” vote of 15 nations for a recent UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict. After a string of failures from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and now Ukraine, you would think the US would recognise the futility of this approach.
As for the disunited kingdom, it needs to stop acting like it’s still a great power, which is distracting it from addressing its enormous internal problems, including keeping Scotland an effective prisoner in the Union.IT is imperative that cool heads prevail amongst our leaders and that we don’t allow emotion to cloud our collective judgment when looking at the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East. Therefore I thought it would be helpful to simply look at numbers.
In the first Gulf War, 88,500 tons were dropped on Iraq; in the 2003 invasion it was 29,199. Numbers for Afghanistan vary.In just 17 days the Israeli air force has dropped 12,000 tons of explosive on Gaza, which is one-quarter of the size of London. Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s ambassador to Britain, told both a Sky News anchor and Piers Morgan on GB news on October 16 that the Dresden and Hamburg bombings were “worth it to defeat the Nazis”.
A poll indicated a significant population of Israel don’t like Netanyahu, so they have something in common with the Palestinians.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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