Here we go Again

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Geoff Coupe

The last time I used this quote from Iain M. Banks was for the events in Paris in 2015.

And now Hamas have adopted the tactics of IS to horrifying effect.

Unfortunately the state of Israel appears to be prepared to inflict the same terror on the inhabitants of Gaza, 50% of whom are children.

As I wrote in 2015, the late Iain M. Banks summed it up well in his novel Against A Dark Background:

Sorrow be damned and all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.

Amen.

About Geoff Coupe

I'm a British citizen, although I have lived and worked in the Netherlands since 1983. I came here on a three year assignment, but fell in love with the country, and one Dutchman in particular, and so have stayed here ever since. On the 13th December 2006 I also became a Dutch citizen.
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