Greta's actions lie at the heart of humanity

ONCE a government declares it is in a pre-war situation, planning to shift the country’s economy towards rearmament and civil preparations for conflict, the machismo sets in.

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The men pump themselves up. In today's terms, it becomes “woke” to speak of peace, by which is implied “unmanly”, cowardly, “without balls”. The papers are full of it.

This unseemly reversion to the bullish male-supremacist politics of the 1930's is everywhere today, but nowhere more so than in the debates over Palestine. The UK Prime Minister, Starmer, stood in battle fatigues in a British base in Cyprus telling the service personnel they are doing a vital job for our nation, but one we should not speak of. Man up!

The Cyprus base is involved in bombing, drone-facilitated targeting, fighter jet flights and the missiles firing upon more than two million Gazan civilians, defenceless, homeless, dehydrated and starving, living in an open air concentration camp repeatedly bombed to rubble, constantly attacked by the world's most sophisticated military machines.