The situation between Lebanon and Israel gets worse, it is now another humanitarian crisis and Israel is getting ready for ground attack. I'm not really bothered with who is wrong or right in this as nobody ever is completely right when violence is concerned, at least in my opinion. And as usual who pays for it are those that are never heard. Besides the Lebanese civilians that are suffering for this, there are thousands of Asian labour workers who went to Lebanon to work mainly in the tourist industry.
Now they have no jobs, no money to get back home and they often come from countries too poor to organise a proper evacuation. They are basically left destitute amidst the bombs.
A couple of days ago I read in the news that in the UK a school banned "Imagine" by John Lennon as it was negative towards religion.
Since I can remember, and that seems to get worse, many conflicts in the world appear to have been inspired, one way or another, by religion. And that's a fact, religion seems to me quite capable of putting itself in a bad light without the help of pacifist musicians. A religious faith that is prepared to kill will never be my religion.
