Despair

I cannot com­pre­hend what Israel has chosen to do in the last few weeks, nor how this ‘escal­a­tion’ is sup­posed to solve any­thing. Do they really think they’ll get their sol­diers back by killing civil­ians? How can they not see the con­sequences of this?

I also want to know why bomb­ing civil­ians in retali­ation for mil­it­ary action is called ter­ror­ism when it’s done by people without gov­ern­ments but when it’s author­ised by gov­ern­ments, this State-sponsored ter­ror­ism is left unnamed. This is use of terror for polit­ical pur­poses. There­fore it is terrorism.

In other news, buff­coat­lifter and I went out last night to eat soupe a l’oignon, escar­gots, boeuf bour­gignon (him not me) and chocolat brà»lée to cel­eb­rate the birth of the Repub­lic of France (Bastille Day). Sadly, that little exper­i­ment ended in Empire and a reign of terror or two for a while as well before return­ing to some sense of sta­bil­ity without the aid of a dic­tator. It only took from 1789 to 1848. Sigh. Per­haps, though, that means there’s hope? Liberté, égal­ité, fraternité!