We, we, we an old man hunched over a decaying laptop in some grim Cambodian backwater, ready to fire off responses to every perceived slight against his beloved Trump and Israel. It brings to mind White Flag by Dido unyielding, defiant, unable to let go of his two great loves Trump & Israel. But if a country seizes land in the modern era from a resistant population, there will be consequences. Without justice, there can be no peace. What is unfolding the hardening of an increasingly ethnonationalist state under Netanyahu and his allies, alongside the expansion of the settler movement feels less like isolated events and more like a chain of cause and effect. In the rubble of Gaza and Lebanon, and now with tensions extending toward Iran, something more enduring is being forged: multi-generational resentment anger that will not easily fade and will be looking for revenge And I’m sick and fed up with the lies. We’ve heard them all before: Iran is weeks away from a nuclear weapon; they’re building missiles that can reach us. These claims surface again and again, always urgent, always used to justify escalation. They must think we’re fools - I'm tired and angery at the bull. And yet, knowing the character of the figures involved, people still rally behind them again and again despite the record, despite the evidence. As for Israel itself, a future of endless war, rising costs, and deep internal divisionseconomic, political, and social raises serious questions about sustainability. No state can carry that strain forever without consequences. The days of the idealised kibbutz and a world united in sympathy for the horrors inflicted on Jews under Nazism and centuries of European antisemitism are long gone. History mattersbut it cannot be an eternal shield for present actions.That moral credit has been spent, and spent recklessly. The real victims now are the Palestinians people who did not create this history, yet have borne its full weight. They did not deserve this, but they have received it all the same. And the world especially the younger generation sees it now. Once that shift in perception happens, there is no reversing it. And finally when you’re struggling to get gas because everyone has panicked remember what’s actually driving it - Israelhell This crisis is tied to a widening regional war that has disrupted global energy supplies, including attacks on infrastructure and the shutdown of key routes like the Strait of Hormuz. It didn’t come out of nowhere. When you know the chain of events, you know.They killed all the journalist with the same brutal efficiencey they kill anyone who resists or challenges Israel and then they lie,and they lie and they lie. But I digress. As troubling as all of this is, it is not our war in the West nor our battle to fight directly. Let them continue their struggle, but let us respond in other ways: through isolation, through pressure, through a refusal to endorse or fund actions we believe are wrong. Not another dollar,pound,cent or euro . Let Israel pay its own way and reckon with the consequences of its policies, rather than exporting instability to the wider world. Because in the end, either everyone wins or no one does. Them’s the rules. Palestine Lives.
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