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This is an excellent point and one that gets far too little attention.

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If these poor children survive Gaza and the terror inflicted on them by the terrorist state of Israel, IF they manage to ‘recover’ from seeing their parents and siblings torn limb from limb, then the anger will set it. And can we really blame them? If you take everything from someone, what have they got to lose?

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There are a couple of sayings attributed to Lao Tzu, a philosopher, that go:

"Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.”

And

“Anyone who fails to recognize problems leaves the door open for tragedies to rush in."

Yet KEY leaders in the world, business and political, despite almost all being in favor of

accumulating love, have seen accumulated hatreds exist, persist, and new hatreds continually come into being. Problems are not recognized and tragedies rush in. And even problems that are recognized are still (intentionally and unintentionally) allowed to let tragedies rush in.

In 1948 in the aftermath of World War Two, Winston Churchill in Chapter 1 of his work “The

Gathering Storm” wrote:

“We have at length emerged from a scene of material ruin and moral havoc the like of

which had never darkened the imagination of former centuries. After all that we suffered and

achieved we find ourselves still confronted with problems and perils not less but far more

formidable than those through which we have so narrowly made our way.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked

was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous; how the structure and habits of democratic

States, unless they are welded into larger organisms, lack those elements of persistence and conviction which can alone give security to humble masses; how, even in matters of self-

preservation, no policy is pursued for even ten or fifteen years at a time. We shall see how the

counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the

middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to

the bull's-eye of disaster. We shall see how absolute is the need of a broad path of

international action pursued by many States in common across the years, irrespective of

the ebb and flow of national politics.”

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Thanks for posting that Kay. He got that right about short -termism built into western democracies shoring up future problems. Also, I can relate to how “desires for safety and a quiet life maybe found to lead direct to the bull’s-eye of disaster” in the context of when family members and friends would rather not discuss the horror unfolding in Palestine and elsewhere “ because it can’t change anything.” and the human need for peace love and harmony sometimes being best served by looking the other way.

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