What is the obsession people have about getting home for Christmas? And is singing about peace on earth just a once-a-year indulgence in hypocrisy?
Pope Francis has talked recently about the possibility that the slaughter in Gaza is not just cruel but a genocide. Good. What took him so long?
Peter Mandelson has said some bad things about D Trump, and some Trumpians have been less than complimentary about him. Will he make a good UK ambassador to Washington DC?
And here – was Jesus a Palestinian? He was born in Bethlehem,and that’s in Palestine. Just a thought.
Nollaig shona duibh go leir – Happy Christmas everybody. We’ll be back when the turkey and stuffing are no more than a fading bout of indigestion…
Of course Our Lord was from that part of the World. He was Jewish so Hamas would have tried to murder him on October 7th, along with his family. Had he been in the Gaza Strip a massive Israeli bomb could have destroyed his home and everyone in it. He came into the World to preach love and as we know there is a lot of hate in it.
Peter Mandelson was an awful Secretary of State for the occupied six counties. He was involved in all sorts of financial chicanery, he might actually get on with Trump for that reason alone.