Super Nanny to Solve Problems in Gaza

I was visiting one of Brentwood's more sophisticated Turkish dining retrieval establishments last night waiting for my grilled delicacy to be prepared when I happened across a publication called the Sun. Now I used to be a bit of a paper snob and for a while would have only used the Sun for one thing alone (imagination suggested at this point). Recently, however I have started to think that news from any view is valid particularly when it is regarded by huge numbers as the Sun is.

I was in good spirits until I happened across a two page spread about the situation in Gaza with a photograph of a father crying over the bodies of his two young sons and a cousin, all of whom looked no older than 5 years old. It was one of the most upsetting pictures I have ever seen in my life. Three children lay dead on the ground. They looked like they were sleeping...but they were dead. They were innocent. They would've had no interest in religious extremism or politics but that's what killed them. Just to make things clear, I think that both sides of the conflict are as evil as the other.

I have grown up in an area where jews and muslims live side by side in peace, go to school together and do business together. I don't think there are too many marriages between the two but then that cannot be expected from hundreds of years of ingrained prejudice and racism against each other. Nevertheless, they don't kill each other. In the middle east however, they wage war like fighting children who when confronted and questioned about their actions, argue with a "you started it!"..."no, you started it!" mentality which frustrates any attempt to get them to the negotiating table.

The year 2009 like so many others has begun with death in large numbers, not as a result of terrorism but as a consequence of equal evil and malevolence and it is time that the world did something positive instead of the passive approach that has been taken to date to stop this mischief once and for all. If both sides want to kill children and innocent people and then blame the other side like a child would then it is time for an adult response.

Israel needs to be sent to the "naughty corner" and made to stay there until it learns that it cannot go on indiscriminately killing and humiliating its neighbours. Super Nanny tactics are needed to tackle this most extreme childish form of national if not racial ethos.

The Palestinians need to be educated and safeguarded from the likes of Hamas, but it cannot and must not be a job for Israel or the US to do. Their neighbours, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia must be made to take responsibility for "their own" and if they fail then they should be sanctioned as well. Believe me, if you hit the Saudis or any of the other fuel rich states in the middle east in the pocket every time there is a terrorist attack in Israel or the rest of the world, then terrorist acts emanating from that region would soon come to an end.

One way or another the violence needs to end and Jews and Muslims need to be held to account for their support of the political administrations they both choose to stand behind every time the killing starts.