Some Things Never Change

“One finds it almost impossible to believe that a civilised people could perform such acts of fiendish barbarism upon women and children and patients in hospitals… The Israelis pinpointed and hit no less than thirteen out of the seventeen hospitals in Beirut, one of them a mental hospital and many of the others full of children.”

Roald Dahl wrote those words in 1983, describing what he had witnessed in Beirut under Israeli bombardment.

And here we are again.

Israel has once more launched massive strikes on Lebanon, despite the so-called ceasefire, with civilians once again bearing the weight of it. Homes reduced to rubble, families torn apart, entire neighbourhoods erased in a matter of hours.

Different decade, different headlines, same pattern.

Dahl wrote about the shift in perception, about how witnessing such destruction changes the way people see those responsible, how sympathy can turn into something else entirely when faced with repeated devastation. He understood, even then, that these cycles do not end, they evolve, they harden, they repeat.

And that is perhaps the most unsettling realisation of all. Not just that it is happening, but that it has been happening, over and over again, across generations, as if nothing has truly been learned, as if no lesson has ever been enough to break the cycle.

We like to believe the world moves forward, that humanity evolves, that history teaches us something. But sometimes it feels as though we are simply watching the same story unfold, with different dates attached to it.

And the longer it goes on, the harder it becomes to believe that it will ever be any different.

Read Roals Dahl’s article here:
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/36936/spread/3?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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US-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard tells Israel Ellis that he was raised to never betray another Jew to "the Goyim."

He claims US govt interrogators presented him with a list of "every major American Jewish leader" and asked him if any were "involved in Israeli intelligence" but he refused to betray them.

(See above for the full story.)