Fighting for peace

Tom Hundell
Eight years for killing somebody. Injustice or what?
Well I suppose it depends on the circumstances. In this case it was an Israeli soldier who got eight years for shooting a “peace activist” [and a British one at that]. I think they should have given him a fukin medal not a prison sentence.
Peace activist my arse.
What in the name of fuk was he doing in Israel anyway? Why wasn’t he being active for peace in this country [where his parents spent all that money sending him to private school]?
He should have been fighting for peace between some of the sections of our community who live in and around Kings Cross, that would have been worth a punt, or for that fact any of this countries strife ridden inner cities.
No fukin merit in that though, is there? Not the sort of thing that makes for good reading in the Guardian. Our inner cities only make for good reading when they’re being brutalised by the Old Bill or rampaged through by the Nation Front.
I had the dubious pleasure of spending six months in Israel [when I was stupid enough to follow the back-pack crowd] working on a kibbutz. Israel is a flyblown, sun-baked shithouse. Why it’s been fought over all these years is a puzzle to me. Its one redeeming feature is that the Israelis have put in no small amount of effort in getting a living out of the desert. Kibbutz and the Kibbutzim work like slaves and they do it to live. They also do it in / on occupied land [remember, it’s all occupied land, Britain, in co-hoots with others concocted the Israeli homeland out of bits of other peoples countries as a fob off for the Jews after WW2]. All of this occupied lands bit, well the land wouldn’t be fit for goats to graze, which is about as agriculturally far as the Palestinians have come since the days of the Bible.
You ever wondered why, when you see the Jews leaving their occupations, they take the whole shebang apart? It’s because they want to return it as they found it. They don’t leave any of the irrigation kit, de-salination plant etc etc. and what happens to the land they un-occupy? Nothing, absofukinloutly nothing. It goes back to being wasteland.
Peace activist, he should have been hoeing the spuds that the Jews grow, sell to the pallis.
Effectively, by working for ”peace” he’s starving those he’s trying to help.
Had he not done a Hans Morretti and bitten the bullet, you can imaging the overheard conversation on the tube twenty years hence…“But, yah, like I worked for peace when I was, like, young”