Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Channel 4 News"
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I’m struck by how the Russia/Ukraine thing is so desperate and pointless, given the shared cultural/linguistic heritage between the two. It’s akin to England bombing Scotland for the latter having the temerity to vote for self-determination and existence as a sovereign state. That stupid. That pointless. That mad. But then I, an agnostic, think of the Bible. The first murder? Cain and Abel. Brothers. It’s an old, sad, sorry song. Also, If you look at a map of Europe, and you look at the extent of the NATO countries to 1997, they extend as far east as Germany. After 1997, NATO expanded like a cancerous growth (as Putin sees it), to encompass 14 other nations, geographically extending as far east as Estonia and Latvia (crucially, from Putin’s point of view, ex-USSR components.) Now look at Ukraine on this map. A further incursion east, by a state with a majority looking west, not east. A further former ex-USSR component eating into (as Putin sees it) the motherland Russia. Now, I’m no supporter of Putin. He’s wrong to aggressively invade a sovereign, self-governing territory, in my opinion. However, this notwithstanding, I can fully see how, just by looking at a map and the physical geography, Putin might feel threatened and a little boxed in. It’s akin to Canada and Mexico joining a Russia-led alliance and not expecting the USA to take aggressive action. But then the double-standards modus operandi of the west was always hiding in plain sight. Does any of this justify his behaviour? Not a jot.
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Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov)
Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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