The perpetrators, the defenders, the politicians, various organisations, the media, and lastly but most importantly – the truth. The first two cause no argument while the roles of the next three are ripe for debate. The last one is often a casualty due to the actions of the former three. In the case of the politicians, it is to what extent they should involve their country in a particular conflict and what they see as the solution. The various types of organisations consist of political, terrorist and humanitarian. The last two, media and truth are inextricably linked.
The perpetrators are those who start a war by committing a harmful, illegal or immoral act. In the case of the current Middle East conflict, that was started by the terrorist organisation Hamas on October 7, 2023, when they invaded Israel and took 251 Israelis hostage. That is an indisputable fact. In the case of the Ukraine conflict, that was started by Russia invading its territory.
The United States of America is Israel’s staunchest ally. Ukraine also has support from the United States, but it comes with a different emphasis. Trump sees that war as one that Europe should take responsibility for operationally. He has been working to get them to step up in that regard, which they now have. Instead of pouring billions into a conflict in which he does not wish to be heavily involved, except through NATO, he is now selling the arms to Europe that they supply to Ukraine.
That is a businessman at work. He does not want to get involved in any war if possible. He sees wars purely as vehicles for causing immense loss of life and wants them stopped. Threatening economic sanctions, which he has done, has seen the cessation of about half a dozen conflicts around the globe. Used properly, sanctions can be a more effective tool than military hardware.
The Russia-Ukraine war is just that: Ukraine defending itself against Russian aggression. Kim Jong Un has been happy to support Russia by sending his troops to be slaughtered. China, Russia’s other ally, has so far not done likewise but no doubt is providing other means of support. Ukraine has the support of most European countries and NATO, of which the United States is a member.
In the Middle East, the situation is much more complex, with a host of terrorist organisations backed and funded by Iran, Qatar and other Arab countries. These terrorist organisations are embedding themselves in countries around the world, aided and abetted by ridiculous open-border policies. Thankfully, Trump has turned off the tap, but UK Prime Minister Starmer seems reluctant to do the same.
Politicians like Starmer are a problem in themselves. Their fantasy is to achieve a ceasefire and create a Palestinian state. Neither are remotely possible. Hamas doesn’t want a ceasefire and while that is the case a Palestinian state is completely off the table. I wonder if the political leaders promoting this idea, most of whom were born nearly a quarter of a century or more since the second world war, have a sufficient understanding of what war is.
This lack of understanding is most evident in the politicians’ motives and the media’s reporting, particularly when it comes to Israel. The two leaders who have the most grasp of what war is about and how to deal with it are Trump and Netanyahu. That should not be a surprise, because Trump was born in 1946 and Netanyahu in 1949. Like some of us who read the Good Oil, we may not have lived through the second world war but we were born close enough to its aftermath to know of the consequences. And what we didn’t know, we were taught at school.
This is why Trump and Netanyahu hold a different view to the younger leaders who have other approaches to solving the war. They understand that the two-state approach won’t work while Hamas and the other terrorist groups exist. Hopefully Luxon gets the same message from Winston Peters, born in 1945.
The other problem with the younger leaders is a curious thought process with regard to what actually happens in a war. There are mass casualties and deaths caused by the defenders in the conflict, in this case Israel. As a result Israel receives global condemnation – this is completely absurd. It might be 2025, not 1945, but Israel is at war with terrorism and to expect it to fight with kid gloves on to protect the people who voted the terrorists into power is plainly ridiculous. The protection should come from Hamas but that won’t happen.
The same curious thought process is evident in regard to humanitarian aid. Israel is criticised relentlessly for stopping food aid reaching the Palestinian people. In no other war in history has the defender been expected to look after the wellbeing of the supporters of the aggressor.
The truth is Israel, in conjunction with American food aid agencies, set up a system whereby food is transported into Gaza via routes to avoid the trucks being looted by Hamas. However, the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies in Washington has released a United Nations report stating that, between May and August this year, of the 2,600 truckloads of food the United Nations sent to Gaza, all but 300 were looted.
How ironic that Israel and America can find a way to get food through but the very arm of the organisation that is set up for this purpose is incapable of doing so. This is easily explained: the United Nations has completely lost its way. They have become nothing more than a political mouthpiece for left-wing activists and globalists. The organisation is simply an expensive talkfest for which we are paying. It should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
The media, of course, are playing their role: far from giving six sides of the story, they prefer just the one of their preference. While they might deliver facts, they are facts of their choosing. Every single news item paints Israel as the aggressor – the villain in the war. It must be awfully boring for Hamas and their fellow travellers to be sitting on their backsides all day twiddling their thumbs (when they’re not firing rockets at Israeli, that is).
Genocide is a word the media and the United Nations use frequently but it is only ever applied to Israel. It’s never applied to the terrorist groups who live the meaning of the word every day. In terms of attacking Israel, that is their raison d’être. But no, if you believe the United Nations’ version of events, which the Secretary General and media reiterated just the other day, all the genocide is being committed by the defender. Talk about obtuse reasoning. It beggars belief.
The result of all of this is that truth, the thing most of us regard as the greatest quality in regard to honesty, is lost. The politicians seem to lack an understanding of the reality of war and the means to achieving a lasting peace, the media is pushing its own one-sided narrative and the United Nations has largely taken the side of the terrorists.
The only two dealing realistically with this war are Trump and Netanyahu. It is to be hoped that they can get the job done and, as far as possible, eliminate the evil head of terrorism, something that threatens the entire world. If that aim cannot be achieved, both in the Middle East and Ukraine, we are all in danger and World War III beckons.
