You can’t swing a punch with loving embrace wrapped around you....

You know, I read more and more about the destruction and murder in Gaza/Israel/Palestine and the more I read and watch and try to get my head around it, the less I understand.

David Cameron wriggling around trying to justify the dark motivations behind the bizarre endorsement of the on-going devastation of human rights, the murder of civilians with arms traded under his licence.

I see my friends fighting back against the West and Israel with fury and vengeance. Obviously the need to represent what we see as a victim against an evil force is something we feel is only right.

My concern with this whole thing is that surely everyone is missing the point. Total obliteration of the Jews, or of Islam, or Hamas, or even a direct hit on David Cameron can surely never serve to create peace and harmony. The devastation only ever creates more hate. The hate fuels more hate, through generational change we breed more haters and whichever side of the fence we sit on, we hate as a default, serving only to aggravate our aggressors further.

It’s a perpetual motion you see. Hate creates hate. Hate and murder are cyclic reactions to actions.

You know where this is going. There’s no twist or play on words here. We have to look for peace through a different reaction. If we look at war through the eyes of love, we see the aggressor for the wounded animal that they usually are. We then stand a chance of finding compassion for our enemies. In compassion we stifle aggression and in love we can only seek to find a peaceful and selfless solution to all of our problems.

The analogy I use is simple; You can’t fight someone who is hugging you tightly and full of love. You can’t swing a punch with loving embrace wrapped around you. So hug it out...

Please let’s not hate to save humanity from itself; let’s find only love. As The Stone Roses once said; “Love Spreads” so let’s spread love and not spit vengeful vibes. Everyone and everything is where they are and who they are because of the way we are. If we are thinking from a truly beautiful place, we’ll create more beautiful thoughts and beautiful people.

This is the revolution of love

One Love

Jez

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