tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post6078656767724580743..comments2023-08-13T09:15:04.565+01:00Comments on MILLFLATS MERCURY-formerly the Tarff Advertiser: Enough is EnoughMad Jock McMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088238215251518226noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-67184080468587006952014-07-17T13:23:14.599+01:002014-07-17T13:23:14.599+01:00I agree with your opinion and viewpoint, while I h...I agree with your opinion and viewpoint, while I had to think long and hard over what to say, then I just decide to let the words come out...easier that way...not really thought but feeling. While for years there has been support for Israel, surrounded and beset by enemies on all sides, one tends to think about the injustice done by the Nazis, the Russians and focus on that. However with two wrongs never making a right, the opinion of a dear friend of my Mothers, from the War ( 39/45, the only one I think of in that sense,apart from the Great War) was that Israel was the first real terrorist, because as a member of the Parachute regiments forerunner, a part of D-Days 6th Airlanding Brigade, he was deployed to Palestine as a policing action in 46/47 or thereabouts. He witnessed attacks on Palestinians then, was subjected to attacks by Jewish men, in British uniforms, where they fired on him and his men. To the end of his life he never forgave them, he thought of his comrades lying in Ranville and other French and Belgian Cemeteries and often questioned what they gave their lives for, when he thought part of that was saving the Jews from the Holocaust among other things. But that is history, there is always political manipulation and expediency even though those that suffer are always at the bottom of the ladder, whether soldier or civilian. I hope and pray that we get a YES vote, because even my Mum agrees, having seen the effect of the War, at first hand, that firstly the wish for Independence will never die, and denial of that right through manipulation of diplomatic process will only make the bitterness worse. <br />Respect to you Peter, and your comrades, past, present and future, always. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08545454291696180226noreply@blogger.com