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THE ISRAEL/PALESTINIAN WAR AND HOW ISRAEL'S LATEST ATROCITY MIGHT HAVE SEALED ITS EVENTUAL DEFEAT! P.1

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  So, what are my thoughts about Hamas' unprecedented attack on parts of Israel, which has resulted in hundreds of men, women and children, some of them soldiers, being killed and thousands of Israelis becoming shocked and traumatised as they have probably never experienced before? And what are my thoughts about Israel's Zionist government's brutal and merciless counter-attack on, not just Hamas' fighters and military, but on all Palestinians and their social, economic and essential infrastructures in both Gaza and the West Bank? The egg did not come 'out of nowhere', and neither did the chicken. Everything of substance and significance has a context which can help us to define and understand it more than we could or would be able to do, without that context.  This principle also applies to Hamas' attack on Israel, just as how it applies to Israel's subsequent and continuing attack on the Palestinians. And so it is that Hamas' attack on Israel was a

JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 11.

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   I have learnt that these situations are a part of our human condition, and that it is better for us to continue to learn how to manage and live with them, instead of trying to prevent them happening. Living, it might be accurately said, is mostly about managing and coping with the making and losing attachments. And what of having children; what have I learnt from my experience sofar?  Well, in addition to what I have already stated, the challenge presented to parents are very onerous, so much more onerous than many or most first time parent are likely to be prepared for.  The idea of having your 'own' partner and, initially, baby, can be so appealing, romantic.  If you are a man, having your own wife, girlfriend or woman comes with a special status and associated 'rights', 'privileges', 'expectations and roles' and responsibilities and duties.  But probably the most irresistible of these, especially for younger people and those who are more given to w