Something to make a difference

It's been a while, but over the past couple of days stuff that I should put on here has piled high.

Rambo. The fourth film. How politically vibrant, alive and relevant. It makes a violent and grotesque action film have a purpose. I hadn't seen it until yesterday and it was incredible. It was gruesome and sickening and you wanted to turn away, but it was incredible. The depiction of the horrors of war (genocide really) made you shudder. So realistic were the heads being blown off, the bodies being blown apart that you realised this stuff is happening, for real, across Burma. The systematic yet arbitrary destruction of a people is horrifying and it makes you genuinely want to cry. Forget all that about me being depressed amd down because the world is not a nice place. There is no option to be depressed or down, there are only two options. The first, turn a blind eye. The second, do something about it. My brother came back from Israel and Palestine today. There he saw first hand oppression, segregation and hatred kept secret by the Israeli government. All we hear on the news is that Palestinians have fired rockets into Israeli territory. It does not tell you of the way the the Israelis treat the Palestinians. Disdain would be a mountain above the way the Palestinians are treated now. And for what?

For ages I have banged on about making the world a better place without going into specifics. Now I ask you to go discover for yourselves the atrocities the Israelis and Palestinians inflict upon each other and then to tell people about it that we may begin a revolution of tolerance and, hopefully, peace.