Remember Trump pointing to Iceland on a map while threatening Greenland with invasion? I bet not many of those rent-a-crowd people that cause all that trouble with their "Palestinian genocide" marches could even point to the place if a map was put under their snotty nose.
Having been a German I am supposed to be biased against the Jews, but even I cannot help but admire how they made the desert bloom while adjacent Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and - if it is a state - Palestine have remained very much the way they were when Jesus last saw them.
In any case, protests, like charity, should begin at home where we have plenty of things to fix before we waste our time and energy on all the problems in the world, most of which remain unfixable for the same reason pharmaceutical companies don't want to find permanent cures.
I don't know how true it is that China is locking up Muslims and turning their mosques into public toilets, but it occurred to me, a neutral bystander, that religion has a lot to answer for. As has had our religion, Christianity, which, thankfully, went through its Reformation which was started when Martin Luther published his 'Ninety-five Theses' in 1517.
That was fifteen hundred years after it got started, whereas Islam only got started in 610 AD (or, as they insist on calling it, CE) which suggests they'd have their own reformation sometime after the year 2100. It's a long time to wait! Should we wait that long? Can we wait that long?
As for those troublemakers who claim to have been hurt in their scuffles with police, give them the same medical opinion we used to get as kids when we hurt ourselves while doing something stupid; "You'll live!"
Don't blame the police who do a difficult job with people who not only want to provoke but also want to be provoked. Always blaming the police will lead to no-one wanting to do their job anymore, and who would protect our properties and lives then when it really matters?
