At long last a whole host of countries have acknowledged that the approximately 5.5 million people who live in Gaza and the West Bank have a right to self determination, and to some kind of equitable rule of law and order.  It's no wonder that people react against what they are seeing on the news every night.  These are territories that Israel occupied through war, and all the displacement through settler invasion etc. cannot be excused just because some curlicued religious nut claims to believe a fairy story from thousands of years ago.  Such behaviour, and the obviously biased application of law and order by the Israeli authorities also happens to be both illegal under international law, and is quite obviously morally reprehensible to any reasonable person.  Neither does a plainly false ancient story excuse the genocide that is currently occurring in Gaza.  The world's reaction to the Israeli governments behaviour, (even though it has been somewhat delayed), s...

The Other Road eBook : Caswell, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store UPDATE 24TH SEPTEMBER 2025:  THE BOOK IS FREE ON KINDLE FOR THE NEXT WEEK OR SO IF YOU WANT A COPY. Once upon a time, long long ago, (well, on 26th July 2023 anyway), I posted here that I had sent a book manuscript to a publisher called Legiron Books.  There is a link in the sidebar  to his blog.  It is run by a really pleasant and helpful guy called Kevin Hillman, who has given me a lot of support to get this damned book out there.  I  am in his debt.  Unfortunately, Kevin has been ill for some time now, so the book never actually got published........until now.  See the link  Following the advice that Kevin had posted on his publishing site at the time, I kept the story short.  In theory this keeps the price of the book down, so more readers are likely to try out a new author, and someone like me might actually sell a few copies of their book.  Unfortunately, to get i...