I do not wish to fund terrorist-based ideologies!

The DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee) has just dropped me an email. I must assume that they still have my details after I sent them some money towards that nightmare time when the tsunami hit the Far East and decimated some many countries, killing thousands. That was way back in 2004. Which brings me neatly on to the Middle East, and in particular Gaza and Israel. There have been running battles for years between these two ‘countries’ (Israel is a country, I don’t actually know what category Gaza falls into – is it a country?). Most of the time all that we see is the verbal diarrhoea, mostly from the ‘leaders’ of Gaza – the PA and Hamas. The PA seems to be a sad waste of everyones time, and Hamas is just a murderous enterprise who seem to publically want to annihilate Israel and its entire population. The latest stretch of imagination is that we (the rest of the world) is now going to subsidise the rebuilding of Gaza by donating some hundreds of millions of dollars. Why? If I read this correctly in the past we have ‘subsidised’ Gaza to already ridiculous amounts, and it turns out that we have been paying for the people of Gaza to build a terrorist network, and a set of tunnels that can have only one purpose, that of mass murder of the Israelis. Why are we now being so damned Politically Correct that we are giving even more money to the PA and Hamas, so that they can laugh at the West (again) and start to rebuild their messy terror systems (again!). I object to this – I am not in the habit of actively funding terrorists, so this current UK government has lost my support (yes, it had it, initially). It has systematically ignored so many real problems and made mountains out of mole-hill sized problems. The recent rise of UKIP will bring a lot of hope to a very disillusioned population, and I can only trust that the voters apathy of recent years, where we struggle to get even 50% turnout, will change. Your vote will count, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.