tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post6046423859000573975..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: Collective GuiltPoetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-80239963378560546542018-05-21T09:06:18.630+00:002018-05-21T09:06:18.630+00:00The slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli milit...The slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli military at the behest of its Fascistic government, under the lunatic terrorist extremists of the likes of Lieberman and Natanyahu, is despicable and, of course, a war crime; although the grumbling in the UN to that effect will soon peter out, as it always does. Each individual killed or injured is a personal tragedy and an indictment of the political and moral bankruptcy of the so called ‘International Community,’ the most reprehensible of which being the UK and US governments who have provided the lethal weapons and political cover for the latest murderous Israeli onslaught. In the scheme of things the killing in Palestine, in terms of numbers, is small compared to many other conflicts and needless deaths by other causes around world - disease, famine etc. But I feel that what justifies the elevation of the Palestine issue to something greater than its scale is that it contains all the ingredients of what is wrong with the world, of which there are too many to list here. But two of the most destructive ones are the endless wars by competing nation states over territory and resources, further fuelled by competing religious ideologies. Of course, if there were no nation states and no religions then wars would be extremely difficult to perpetrate; the latter being two of the fundamental planks of socialism and are all but impossible to achieve under the current system of capitalism. On the contrary perpetual war between nation states is an endemic characteristic of the capitalist system.Tim Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10116571614638026642noreply@blogger.com