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As I write, (Sunday 7 April) the antagonists are in Cairo negotiating some sort of deal.

According to one report, Hamas is sending its top representative Khalil Al-Hayya, to Egypt to participate in a new round of negotiations, with diplomats and Security Service heads of Egypt, Qatar, the US and Israel – but there is some doubt that the Israeli delegation will attend, following Hamas' latest refusal of Israel's proposal.

Maybe they’ll find something else to talk about – a two-state solution, perhaps ?

In the meantime, I found an interesting article on the Global Research website in Montreal written by a peace activist, Donald Smith, who has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and lives in Washington. I thought I should share it with you :

http://www.globalresearch.ca/senior-us-diplomats-journalists-academics-secretaries-defense-say-us-provoked-russia-ukraine/5852995

Perhaps I should also add, for the record, that I consider pacifism to be a very noble philosophy but a totally unrealistic and ineffective defence strategy. I am more inclined to think that if you want peace, you should prepare for war.

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Reading between the lines this is my thoughts on what happened as in
another post, too lazy to rewrite it !

From what I have heard of the deaths of the World Kitchen killings
it seems as though there was not enough feedback from the attack
controllers to the those controlling movements such as aid people.
When the attack controllers saw what they thought were Hamas they
presumed the status of the convoy had changed. By takeover ?
That should have been confirmed by continuing to watch them.
That was not done and seven people died.

One reason given was that the Kitchen vehicles do not have radios.
Encrypted radios are available but Hamas could capture one is probably
why they have not been used but there could be a way around that.
The encryption could changed every few minutes.
I am sure our military has already solved that problem.

Hopefully it is a lesson learned.

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Some helpful facts :

According to a Palestinian public opinion poll, 71% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza supported the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. Many see it as a triumph of resistance to Israeli oppression. But only 1 in 5 Palestinians surveyed in the poll said they saw videos showing what Israelis endured the day of the Hamas assault.

Hamas and Israel each see themselves as the victim and the other as the aggressor.

After 2,000 years without a home, Israel was created for the Jewish people in Palestine in 1948.

In 1947, the UN General Assembly voted on a plan to create two states. The Arab state with a territory of 11,100 km or 42%, the Jewish state with a territory of 14,100 km or 56%, while the remaining 2%—comprising the cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the adjoining area—would become an international zone.

The Jews accepted the plan but the Arabs rejected it. It was obviously unfair. The Arab population was twice the size of the Jewish population and they owned most of the land. The Jews only owned 6-7% of it.

War broke out and more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half the Palestinian Arab population at the time – fled from their homes or were expelled, at first by Zionist paramilitaries, and later by the Israeli army following the establishment of the state of Israel.

The expulsion and flight of the Palestinian Arabs is known as the Nakba. Many Arabs were massacred, their villages were destroyed, their village wells poisoned, and their properties looted to prevent them from returning.

Palestinians still lack a homeland 76 years later, in 2024. There are now 6 million Palestinian refugees, representing successive generations of families who fled or were forced from their homes and not allowed to return.

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Dear Banjo,

Thanks for the information.

I am beginning to be unable to watch the TV programs of
the news. The images are so horrific.

Dear Foxy,

«I am beginning to be unable to watch the TV programs of
the news. The images are so horrific.»

Good on you - it is so much healthier without, I never had a TV and will never want to have one!

Thank you for your kind words Yuyutsu.