Allow me to start this post with some reflections on a past incident …..
The year was 1962. It was October, the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was invited one evening to attend a performance of Swan Lake. The Bolshoi Ballet Company were the stars. I was invited by a Soviet friend of mine who was working as a press agent in New York.
When we arrived at Madison Square Garden I was seated next to the Soviet Foreign Minister, Anastas Mikoyan. He was in New York to address the United Nations General Assembly during the crisis.
A few minutes after we were seated another guest arrived, Adlai Stevenson, the US Ambassador to the United Nations.
He walked up to Mikoyan with arms outstretched and they both hugged and kissed each other like long lost brothers.
That very afternoon the two of them ‘went at each other’ in scenes watched by millions on TV.
Adlai Stevenson shows aerial photos of Cuban missiles to the United Nations, October 25, 1962.
Stubborn person that I am I refused to even shake the hand of Stevenson. I remember Mikoyan whispering in my ear at that point that ‘I would never become a diplomat’. He was right, but in all these years I never lost my integrity either, which is more important.
All of the above prove he immortal words of William Shakespeare;
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then, the whining school-boy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then, a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then, the justice,
In fair round belly, with a good capon lined,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
And now, the above connection to today’s post ….
Note that the stage settings are different today and there are new ‘script writers, but all else remains the same.
The following is a headline from today’s Ynet News
Labour boycotts company with Israel ties
That’s fine ….. but the rest of the article leaves much to be desired. Hopefully it is merely a zionist initiated BEX Alert and not true fabricated because of his expressed support for the Palestian Struggle. Otherwise, The Labour Party will definitely not receive and forthcoming endorsement from this Website.
UK’s second-largest party voted to boycott a major company with commercial ties to Israel while party head Jeremy Corbyn calls for negotiations with ISIS.
Negotiations with ISIS???? Does he not know who they are? Does he think we don’t know either??
Made in Israel and the USA …
Believe it or don’t!
One does NOT negotiate with the likes of ISIS. One exposes them which will lead to their eventual destruction!
As was posted a few days ago, The best way for Americans to defeat the Islamic state is to end support for Jewish nationalism SEE
Shame on Jeremy Corbyn for thinking otherwise.
While the party was busy boycotting a company for its ties to Israel, the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was calling for negotiations with the Islamic State terror organization. We should not be “drawn into responses that feed a cycle of violence and hate,” Corbyn said yesterday.
“The dreadful Paris attacks make the case for a far more urgent effort to reach a negotiated settlement of the civil war in Syria and to end the threat from ISIS,” he concluded.
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