The holocaust led to a terrible sense of collective trauma amongst the Jewish people and quite rightly so. Let us not forget that the Nazi's set out to destroy a race of people.

And that legacy lives on today, contributing to the ongoing issues, a back to the wall's mentality that means any kind of response will be meted out accordingly. If I was Jewish, I would feel exactly the same.

Thats not excusing the behaviour but adding to the understanding but also ditto with the Palastinians in Gaza. Hemmed in, access in and out controlled by foreign powers, not allowed access to all kinds of goods, creating a pressure cooker of hostility and aggression and with some justification.

If I was a Palestinian then I would be cheering on every rocket fired. And I was an Israeli, I would be cheering on every retaliation. That is the problem.

Israel must see that it cannot beat the Palestinians. They are willing to fight them whilst wearing flip-flops. Plenty of videos of little kids being willing to fling themselves against heavily armed Israeli troops who are 4 to 5 times their size.

Hence why I genuinely believe Israel is seeking to have the region depopulated. And seeing Europe as the place which should facilitate that.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

My suppostion is purely speculation, and probably driven by the odd way my battered old crust works but ever since that debacle in Libya, and subsequently reading around the subject, it just began to make less and less sense.

Essentially by taking out Gaddafi, the West plunged what had been, a functioning state into utter chaos and opened up routes to mass illegal immigration. And for what?

Ever since then, one of the major questions has been around the migration issue with the Left moving more and to an 'open-borders position for people who are, by any definition, the antithesis of what they stand for in terms of beliefs and cultural expectations.

The irony of my ramblings is that population transfers are tried and tested historical methods of solving conflict situations. There is a real logic to it but it has to manipulated so that the West is doing the inviting. Not that Israel are driving them out.

But the backlash is real. Left-wing parties are losing almost everywhere in Europe yet control many of the state institutions which constantly promote the notion that even the slightest hint of disagreement with mass migration is literally now seen as almost criminal. With attendant 'hate' laws in place. I suspect Brexit was a huge spanner in the works as well, hence much of the resistance to it.

It feels like a set up. As though we are being prepared for a much larger number to be introduced and any resistance to that to be cowed into compliance.

However I am also willing to consider that I am losing the plot a tad but still, that part of me that over-thinks these things, will not be stilled.

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

A perfect example. Like when those people on-board a flight prevented the deportation of a convicted rapist.

All about good feel moments for the protesters rather than the actual attempt to rid the country of a scum-bag. No #metoo moment in that.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

I just wish the Israelis and the Palestinians could settle their differences like good Christians.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Serious question Dan, do you think the government should not be allowed to remove people who are here illegally?

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit