Minnie’s Musings

I say with the deep understatement we Brita are known for.

Sooner or later someone would attack a synagogue (again). People are killed and wounded. Condolences and prayers are offered. There are calls for unity.

And then it starts. The demand to tone down anti-Israeli rhetoric, the debates on whether a Palestine Action march should take place this weekend due to stretched police resources; barely concealed anti semitism and it’s other face, the extremes of Zionism.

Three men lost their lives. One because he made a choice to wear a belted bomb -however unviable- a seond a victim of the terrorist. And the third a man apparently caught in the cross fire.

To this I would add the armed officer who now has to live with the consequences of firing a weapon whose bullet destroyed an innocent life.

Therefore I think it a good time to pause and reflect. Put down a placard, put down a pen, stow a keyboard. Just stop, pause and reflect on whether this is how we want to live in our supposedly green and pleasant land .

Stopping and thinking, pausing for reflection before returning to fight the good (or bad) fight is what is needed. And for the families of the victims let’s spend more than a soundbite considering their loss..