Counterbalance
Yarnbombing on the pier at Saltburn, North Yorkshire As we reach the very end of December, there are two aspects to this blogpost. Firstly Gaza and secondly some pictures that I have stored away in the bowels of this computer's memory. I have thousands of them. Okay then - Gaza. I can't help pondering about what is happening over there. It breaks my heart to think of the 9,000 children who have already been killed and the 7,000 women and the thousands of innocent law-abiding men. The present total of fatalities is 21,423. It's as if the vengeance of The Israeli Defence Force has already achieved a payback of twenty Gazan lives for one Israeli life - following the brutal Hamas terrorist attack upon innocent Israeli citizens on October 7th. I wonder - how many more innocent Palestinians must die before this awfulness ends? Surely twenty for one is more than enough. What is happening is not a "war". It is an act of unbridled revenge. The victims are trapped with...