First AC wanted me to "STFU".

Now SR wants me to be "Quiet please."

There is a class of people who really don't like having their errors exposed.

There's going to be a school protest tomorrow
for Palestine. School children are being accused
of being manipulated. Yet many have voiced strong
opinions about the issues involved. Even Jewish
teenagers are going to take part.

Hopefully the demonstrations will be peaceful - but
I guess we'll have to wait and see. There's always
a small minority who turns up and tries to wreck
things.

I haven't been involved in many protest demonstrations.
I remember holding a placard in a pro Lithuanian demo
saying "Ruskie Go Home." It was a peaceful demo -
and well behaved. Not much to write about in the
papers - because there was no violence and therefore
not newsworthy.

We'll see how things pan out on Thursday.

Many of the victims of the barbaric events of 7/10 were burned alive in their houses or safe-rooms. The houses themselves were relatively unscathed but the victims burned beyond recognition.

I wonder how a hellfire rocket managed to do that?

We as by-standers can only gasp at the horror happening.
And try to understand - Why?

And why it continues and a compromise can't be reached.

Casting blame is easy for those of us living outside the
region in comfortable circumstances. We're worlds away.
And we pick and choose our sides accordingly.

Trying to understand seems to be out of our reach.
I pray for the recognition of our common humanity and for
this conflict to end soon. I suspect I am not the only
one doing that. A military force will not end this conflict.
To paraphrase Golda Meir:

"Peace will come in the Middle East only when Israelis and
Palestinians love their children more than they hate each
other."

Foxy,

Of course the school kids are being manipulated. There is no chance this would have occurred without the organisation and coercion from the far left whinge teacher's union.

As with the other protests the unprovoked massacre of Israeli citizens that started this war will be brushed over by the Jew-hating left whinge nut jobs.

As Golda Meir said, military force won't solve this conflict, but neither will letting Hamas survive. This nest of rats needs to be exterminated before the peace process can restart.

Shadow Minister,

I prefer not to argue with you on this subject.