WAR...It kills...

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I’m old enough to remember the aftermath of World War Two. (Baby though I was).
In the years that followed, I recall my parents’ generation rejecting with horror anything manufactured in Japan. The Japanese were the ‘enemy’ and thank goodness for the Americans who put an end to the fighting and killing and threats, by dropping a couple of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What heroes the ‘Yanks’ were. Never a thought (then) of the horrendous carnage the bombs wrought on Japanese people!

When I was a little older, I learned a bit about the horrors of the Holocaust. The word ‘Nazi’ was one that struck terror in our little hearts.

Later, when I pondered on the absolute abomination of Hitler’s Germany, with gross cruelty & mass murder, I would wonder why the rest of the world stood by and let that happen.
I assumed that messages and ‘news’ was slow and difficult to get out into the world – after all, it was almost in the ‘olden days’ – and I chose to think that, if only the world knew of what was occurring it would – or could – have been stopped.
How wrong I was!

NOW, what we have is the unstoppable murder of Palestinians, right in front of our eyes, in daily visual reports on our big flat-screen television sets.
Horrendous is not a big enough word to describe what we are seeing. I, like many others, am too weak-willed to watch much of the sickening news bulletins.

What I thought, as a kid, when I assumed that wholesale murder and genocide on such a scale could never happen, is now proven to be a very false assumption.
The ‘rest of the world’ can protest, plead, order, beg, instruct, condemn, all to no effect.
If a ‘leader’ of a nation desires to eliminate a whole population, he can.
Simple as that!
Summon up an endless billion-dollar army and set them to it.  (Yes, yes, I know, ‘They didn’t start it’).
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And thousands of children, babies, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, and anyone who gets in the way of a warmonger’s army is massacred - as hospitals, homes and all other structures are bombed into oblivion.

And there is nothing – NOTHING – we can do.