America signs an arms deal with Saudi Arabia for over $100 billion. Saudi Arabia is the historical birthplace of Wahhabism. Wahhabism is the fundamental force influencing the evolution of the Taliban (now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) which spawned Al-Qaeda which mutated into ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and then ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), then Daish and now IS (Islamic State).
There was a time when armies lined up facing each other in identifiably different uniforms and fought a battle. This evolved into the industrial warfare of the 20th century. The UK was anxious to bomb Dresden in spite of the fact it would make no difference to the outcome of WWII. They were driven by a need to test and demonstrate their latest idea of carpet bombing to the point of causing a firestorm which would devastate an entire city.
Israel is a modern nation state created in the aftermath of WWII. Created by the "Western" victors in an Arab country. Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, which is the political philosophy of Israel, was clear that "We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us." and went on to explain how to slowly isolate, ostracise, and ultimately dispose of dissenting parties. In Operation Protective Edge conducted by Israel against the poverty stricken Arab population of Gaza in 2014 over 2000 civilians were killed which included over 500 children. The daily death toll was proportionally 16 times greater than London during the Blitz.
The Brexit vote was a vote against unaccountable authoritarianism embodied in the EU. The unaccountable authoritarian Tories were against leaving the EU and were inadvertently left holding the reins of enacting Brexit. Theresa May calls a snap election to consolidate Tory power because it is perceived that the Brexit process will cause too much damage to the UK and threaten the Tories domination and power.
The UK is the second biggest arms dealer in the world and two thirds of those arms are sold to Middle Eastern countries where instability feeds into the increased risk of terror threats to Britain and across the West. Israel, America, Britain, and the Saudis (amongst others) are the main source of arms to the "terrorist" organisations currently enacting the proxy war against all dissenters of the Western capitalist global axis of control. Both Russia and China are very concerned to stop the expansionism of the West into this Middle Eastern region which is critical for current global energy supplies.
A common human trait is to want to cause harm to an oppressor to "teach them what it feels like". Right or wrong that is to be expected. These global machinations and vying for power are not only conflicts between nations or corporate interests because they depend upon the molecular substance of power which is the people. These conflicts require people to be threatened and damaged as the manifestation of the power for the competition to even exist. But these people are not the nations or the corporate interests. They are people trying to live their lives. The vast majority want peace and equity.
From Che Guevara through Barder Mainhoff to Osama bin Laden people have tried to oppose the oppression of the overriding political superstructure which constrains and inhibits the individual creative potential of the molecular population of people. These oppositional forces of violence are routinely used to justify more oppression and, as such, become seen as part of the problem. There is a feedback of oppression and abuse all stimulating and nurturing the very worst of human potential. They conjure and manifest the most primordial terror in people's hearts and souls.
Then on Monday 22 May a bomb explodes at the Ariana Grande concert for young people killing more than 20 innocent civilians in the Manchester Arena. Do I need to say more? If you don't understand we are at war then you need to rethink your definition of war. The war is between the inherent individual autonomous power and fabricated entities of power in the form of Nation States, Corporations, Ideologies and authoritarian political control. The current UK election campaigning is stopped. Arab terrorists are "blamed". More fear, more anger, and more aggression.
My political campaigning doesn't stop. I have more respect for the victims, both alive and dead, of this abhorrent violence. There are always choices to be made. The Tory Party indulges in authoritarian, imperialistic, oppression and violence, with threats and murder to control both the world and its own population. With Jeremy Corbyn at the helm, the current Labour Party espouses equity, investment in people not corporations, reduction of violence and profiteering from the weapons of war. He pursues policies to engage in talks with warring factions and the reduction of violence. He believes that a well fed, well occupied, well educated population is happier for all and produces more creative results for humanity at large.
No doubt there will be many claims of "false flag" and many rather tenuous if not crazy theories involving the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, the IMF, Jews, Russians, Globalisation, Aliens, and possibly Noddy and Big Ears. None of these will be bereft of any connection with reality and none will provide enough understanding alone to significantly improve the situation. Maybe, metaphorically, we are slowly awakening to the terror within that is a global threat as if an invasion from "outside" Aliens. At some point this pursuit of violence will cease. We cannot end violence with violence and we will either find another way or humanity will simply destroy itself.
More than anything else if you want the violence to stop then stop pursuing the violence. Find another way.
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