Letter to the Editor
Trump’s diaspora
Reading P&I on Trump’s latest mad plan to “resettle” the inhabitants of Gaza somewhere else so he can build hotels and golf courses, I was struck by an historic parallel.
The last chap to try this was Sargon II, boss of Assyria, who came down on the local inhabitants “like a wolf on the fold, his cohorts gleaming in purple and gold” and scattered them to the four winds, an event known in Jewish history as the diaspora.
That was 2750 years ago and led directly to the present mess that is Israel/Palestine. So if Trump has his way, we can expect another three millennia of Canaanite chaos and carnage. If humans last that long.
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