Rebuked!

Yesterday I published my views on the Trump Middle East deal. Today, I received  a long series of rebukes. I am not sure whether they think I support Hamas or I am a Zionist. I have somehow manage to convince many people that I am one or the other. Some people tell me they are highly disappointed that I have been duped, others that I am patsy or worse for one side or the other. I generally studiously avoid the subject of the Middle East and Israel on the blog, not least because I don't really know a lot about the intricacies of the politics. For the record, after what Hamas did at a music festival to innocent people, I abhor the organisation. As to the Government of Netanhayu, I am amazed that the atrocity happened on his watch, yet he is still PM. I see little evidence that he has managed the situation well and sadly, he has lost a lot of friends with his actions. Even Trump and his missus did not like the images of starving kids. One of my studio customers is an elderly Arab Israeli, familiar withe the area. He tells me that it is incomprehensible to him as to what happened. It has been one of the most heavily protected border areas in the world. I don't know. 

What I do know is this. People who tell me what I am or what I think are genuinely clueless. The reason why I wrote a blog yesterday was because there seems to be a chink of hope in a terrible situation, for a lot of people who have been badly hurt, on both sides. I am not getting into the numbers or the rights and wrongs. Just the fact that a lot of people are a lot happier at the start of this week than they were last week. As a human  being with a degree of compassion, that gives me grounds for hope. So by all means rebuke me, it is a free country. But maybe you need to look at yourself first, as if you believe that there will ever be a fair and just solution that genuinely addresses all the genuine grievances of all the inoocent people hurt by this situation, then you are even more deluded than you think I am. Sadly, all we can hope for is a solution that is the least worse available.