Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan

Yes the old thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines. It seems that if enough people on the third planet from the Sun believe in a certain thing it can happen. Is there a God well a better word is creator. So far we don’t have the first clue but reason tell’s us all this came from somewhere. So far about 200 billion Galaxies in the known Universe that’s a lot. Where did the mass energy come from to form all those Galaxies not a clue so far. Any life other than ourselves in the Universe well again reason tell’s us yes. Unless we human’s can use reason the knowledge not illusion of knowledge but what we know guess what? We human’s are destroying the planet and why well so we can eat pizza work’s for me. Is it written in stone that we must do this, no. Here’s where ideologies, and economic doctrines come into play with us human’s. Have we tried to understand ideologies, and economic doctrines not really a few have just used those two things to have something called power past and present. Well we are now at the point where the past and the present get to see each other again. Just how the heck did this happen well believing in confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines could be one reason and all done on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Well what else do we believe in? Ahww that’s the question. One thing for sure unless we stop burning fossil fuels and eating pizza and moving forward with the old religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines we will never answer that question. I wonder what the commander of the sixth fleet would think about that question?

GAZA HAS NO POWER

HM FCO have taken a month to reply to our pleas for British government assistance to free two British aid workers who were prevented from leaving Gaza at the Rafah gate by the USUKIs stooges, the Egyptians.

#Natalie, from Lebanon (but with a British passport) entered Gaza via one of the Free Gaza boats and has been working as part of the International Solidarity movement within Gaza since November 2008. Since the end of May Jenny has been trying to leave and return home via the border crossing at Rafah into Egypt. She keeps getting turned away, most recently under pretty extreme circumstances, as outlined below. Natalie also needs to leave Gaza in order to take up her place at a British University. The Egyptian Border Guards told both women that they were being refused exit because of their work with the Free Gaza boats. They were told that they would ‘never be let out’. Natalie has written an account of their treatment, and their inhuman treatment of so many Palestinians at the Rafah crossing, in ‘The Gates of Hell’. #

The FCO reply dated 5th August 2009, names of sender and recipient omitted.

Thank you for your email of 8 July to the Foreign Secretary concerning British nationals in Gaza and the Rafah border crossing. I have been asked to reply on his behalf.

You also raise the cases of Jenny Linnell and Natalie Abou Chakra. As you may be aware, both are now out of Gaza. However, I would like to make clear that the UK does not control access to Gaza over the Rafah crossing – Egypt does. Nor does the UK control access to Gaza via the crossings on the Israeli border – Israel does. With regard to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the UK has been unequivocal in its calls for Israel to lessen restrictions at the Gaza crossings and to allow the legitimate flow of humanitarian aid, trade and reconstruction goods and the movement of people. This is essential not only for the people of Gaza, but also for the wider stability of the region. The Foreign Secretary emphasised this in his speech to the UN Security Council on 11 May and both the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary have raised it directly with Israel. We shall continue to do so.

It should also be noted that our travel advice advises against all travel to Gaza, including its offshore waters, stating that it would be irresponsible to visit at this time. There are well-established mechanisms for getting aid into Gaza; aid should be co-ordinated well in advance.

Facilitating peace in the Middle East remains a high priority for the UK. We are clear that the two-state solution should be based on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as a capital for both Israel and the Palestinian state and a fair settlement for refugees. Israelis and Palestinians need to live as neighbours in safety and security.

I hope this helps to answer you concerns.

Near East Group
Foreign and Commonwealth Office

No thanks to the ‘unequivocal’ and hands off FCO that the women finally returned home.

jim

jim

i’ve been saying for at least a decade that afore-said military resistance only worsens the situation for pal’ns.
and, in any case, without US/european goodwill towards pal’ns, it will always be a win for the israelis-loss for pal’ns regardless whatever they do-don’t do or say-don’t say. tnx