Just imagine how you would feel, what you would do if a stranger were given your home though no fault of your own, without your getting any compensation for it or even wanting to give it up and the whole world knew about it and allowed it to happen. Now imagine that same scenario happened to your neighbour and not yourself but that over time your new neighbour with the aid of his/her friends in high places of power discriminated against you and made you out to be the bad guy (or shall we say “terrorist” or “insurgent” or “guerilla”) for wanting to stay on your own land and live in your own house and for speaking out for your old neighbour who lost his/hers, and then this new neighbour incarcerated you and all this happened not just to you but to your grandparents, your parents, your children and in fact a lot of your family and friends and the world just watched, and while the world watched the new neighbour slowly and methodically proceeded to take all that was yours and belonging to your community, your culture, your lands, homes, businesses, past and present and future.
Would it be right? Wouldn’t it be maddening?
Would you stand by? Would you acquiesce?
Then the world’s governing body puts out statement after statement, article after article about how this new neighbour is in the wrong and it should put things right. But nothing continues happening because the PR machine of the new neighbour with it’s oh so deep pockets and fingers in every pie ever more twists the story and puts out lies and propaganda to influence, buy and strong-arm politics, policy, votes and vetoes in all the “leader” countries, those self-righteous-white-majority-Christian-majority-holier-than-thou pretending moral superiority countries who scream “terrorist” at one group fighting for their own justice and coo at the other, interchangeable depending on whom they’ve struck the latest deal with for resources, assured votes in their own countries or votes at the self-same world governing body in order to marginalize it…
It is all a game of power = resources + votes = power
MADDENING!!
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