Op-Ed

I was going to write this yesterday in the ‘news’ but I was a bit tired.   Anyway, it can be my op-ed, as they say, ha ha.

John Kerry has recently ‘had talks with’ Iran, and has appeared in various photo shoots looking very pleased with himself.   Is this naïveté, incredible stupidity, or something far more serious?   I ask myself.    I also ask myself if the President and the White House have been on the same planet as me for the last thirty odd years.   It cannot have escaped their attention that Iran is bound and determined, and repeatedly state their commitment, to ‘wipe Israel off the face of the earth’.

Is it just my generation that remembers the horrors of the Holocaust, the sufferings of the Jewish people?   I know the creation of the state of Israel wasn’t fair, Chaim Weizmann - the first President  - acknowledged it wasn’t fair that Palestinians were dispossessed in order to create a homeland for Jewish people, but as we all tell our children “life isn’t fair”.  And Iran’s proposed genocidal killing of the Jewish people in Israel today cannot be acceptable in anybody’s faith tradition.  And John Kerry thinks he has dissuaded Iran from this?????  What planet does he live on, or have I - like Alice in Wonderland - fallen down a hole and am now on another planet?

I have sometimes wondered - and I know this is a massive over simplification - as there are now more Palestinians living in Jordan than there are Trans Jordanians, why the Jordanian monarchy (itself a creation of relatively modern times) doesn’t do the generous thing and abdicate its kingdom, to allow the Palestinian people a homeland of their own.   Like I say, a massive over simplification of a problem, and many would say ‘unrealistic’.