To be really glad I don't live in America right now

So funny! Yes he promised cheaper groceries but guess what with the tax cuts that Trump has given to the billionaires he has a deficit so that means tariffs, which will mean things will cost more for the average American. Elon’s wealth has increased to 154 billion under Trump. Meta, google and other corporations are benefiting from the huge tax cuts that ordinary Americans will have to fund. I hope that though keeps them warm at night when they can’t pay their bills.

what a lot of assumptions you are making.

what a lack of solutions you are proposing

what a lot of pretending the status quo is ok - you are doing.

how on earth could it be worse?!?! also the amount of aid money that goes to Gaza right now is huge - how about instead of spending it there, for it to be blown up a week later, it was used to pay to set up a viable Palestinian homeland, somewhere where they wo;t get blown up?

Why is that mad?

Israel is not going anywhere! never! And as I said, I am definitely ant zionist, but they are there. never leaving.

Principles are sometimes less important than stopping being blown up

I'm kind of waking up to the chilling realisation just how much most people hate and distrust foreigners and immigrants and how much a lot of men hate women and want to see them suffer and to have women's rights and lives under their control. The Trumps, Farages and Musks of this world are just making it possible for people to vocalise these feelings.

At least I have a proposed solution. You don't.

Don't suggest one that will never happen

I know that history very well and it was 2 million not ten, over one million of which mostly resettled in neighbouring Bavaria (the rest in today's Poland and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union). It is a different context though and two wrongs don't make a right.

I mean I wish you were right but I'm certain you're wrong. It's been a gaping wound in the Middle East since 1948, there has never been peace, there never will be. It's about time people accepted it and had radical solutions. people keep dying. its awful.

They don't all hate each other. The leaders hate each other. Among the general population, the hatred isn't always directed at each other. So there is hope, they just need better leaders, leaders who want peace. Unfortunately I don't think the Palestinians have ever had leaders who want peace as well as the existence of a Jewish state alongside their own, and the Israelis haven't had it for a couple of decades. So it's not looking great at the moment. I still maintain there is hope though!

Ethnically cleansing Gaza will not help. They did it already with the Jewish population there and it's not been a great outcome.

Change the leaders and change in the ME will follow. Just like the US electing Trump has made immediate changes to the safety of everyone, everywhere. Just in a really, really negative way.

Ten million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe after WW2. These were communities that had existed in those areas for hundreds of years.

Let me see... Coventry got blown up, didn't it? Dresden in Germany got obliterated. Germans should have moved away from there forever?

I know, I've started to quite seriously worry, also for what might be coming down the track here in a few years. It's like there has been some sort of mass psychosis for some years now, people being seduced by these 'charismatic' autocrats who can bend the rules however they like, change them on a whim, threaten basic human rights, say almost anything, no matter how crazy, xenophobic, misogynistic etc, and people applaud and cheer, intoxicated by these old style rah rah bully boys like Johnson and Farage who under all that 'man of the people' shtick are toxic through and through and only out for themselves (and their rich mates).

The increasingly hostile anti-immigrant rhetoric is honestly beginning to scare me a bit, not only for myself as an European immigrant here but for what are really beginning to sound like 1930s style attitudes around the world.

I'm writing a story about it which is helping to process these feelings a bit.

The difficulty is that they cannot peacefully coexist. Do you suggest we do nothing while Israel kills Gazans as an act of revenge?

the status quo is not viable is a bullshit answer?

I really don;t know. But I do know there will never be peace in the Middle East with the status quo. They all hate each other. they can;t live together, and Israel is never going anywhere. So accept it, move, have a better life where you re not being shot every day

there's plenty of land in the world. Again, I don;t think it's right. I think it's the least bad option.

The status quo is not viable for anyone

Surely they should be given the option to move, rather than be forced out?!