Ancient and Modern Tales : Past Present and Future : Alfred N.Muggins Tells a Story!

9/10/23

    The Politician Generals that manage Israel have messed it up again, big time, this time! Upset the Palestinians, upset Hamas, don’t build bridges, don’t listen to Palestinian pleas, or suggestions, or visions, or cries for freedom, or for respect! Hold them down, keep them on their reservations, herd them into ever smaller enclaves. Bulldoze their homes where you can pretend you have the legal right. Build walls, not bridges. Even the hills are not theirs any more! They can’t even shepherd their sheep or pick their olives, for some recent Jewish colonist from Eastern Europe, or wherever, calling them names as they sit atop their fortress hills in their brand new castles!

    Ancient Sparta took the lands of their neighbor Messinians and turned those people into helot slaves, forcing them to work in their fields and terrorizing them at night with snatch squads and unprovoked violence!

    Modernising Constitutional Enlightened (supposedly?) United States did the same kind of thing with the Native American Indians, forcing them to march thousands of miles to the west of the Mississippi, to the promised land of Oklahoma, which was to be theirs forever Indian land, if only they survived the cruel march at gunpoint. What of their ‘rights’? They were non citizens, just like the slaves from Africa, who had not yet been freed at that point, with probably even less value to the white conquistador entrepreneurs, who really wanted their land, not its people!

    Likewise the Palestinians are, it seems, fated to become periodically, refugees again, if they have not yet been punished enough!

    It seems that some of these soon to be refugees once again, the people of Gaza, who have been under ideological and religious management of Hamas in recent times, are to be moved out of their once again demolished homes, into the sea, or the desert, or perhaps another refugee camp in some other Arab country (or perhaps Oklahoma – is there any spare land left there?)

    That big talking baboon himself (Gorilla?), Benjamin Netanyahu, like some Ancient Babylonian or Assyrian King orders death and destruction to reign down from the skies upon his erstwhile enemies. I am quite sure he would like to see them chased off the land, turned to dust. He directs the wisest rulers of the West, his ultimate poodles, Biden in particular, who seems to be getting mixed up between his duty towards peace processes and reconciliation, and the duty to put terrorists back in their boxes.

(The weapons should be going to Ukraine, not to the baboons (Gorillas?) who decided Palestinians should be ignored and cast aside, and brought this whole cataclysm on themselves!)

     Of course, famously, it was the Nazis who thought they were the chosen people, who picked on the Jews. So the Jews took advantage of colonial opportunities of the time, and transferred to the land of their ancient ancestors, more recently occupied by wave after wave of conquerors, and indigenous survivors, who called the land their own, as all the peoples of the world do. Unfortunately they have nearly finished taking it all over, far more than was ever envisaged by their hosts, who have been rewarded by refugee camps in surrounding states and Gaza, captivity, segregation, and reservations, getting steadily smaller as new colonists are bussed in to take over their erstwhile ancestral lands, in their new occupied castles and armed settlements. How would you feel?