Mahler's Prodigal Son

It comes as no surprise to anyone with any sort of commonsense, decency, humanity and intelligence, to look upon Trump and the years of his presidency - is it even accurate to describe it as such? - as an aberration and the US coming to be regarded as a joke on many levels.    What is astounding (then again, perhaps not, when one observes the GOP post the Trump era) is the absolute inhumanity of the policies pursued by the (dysfunctional) Trump administration.     Witness what happened at the US-Mexico border and the conduct meted out to refugees, especially minors, even as young as below 10. Watch this (Australian) ABC documentary, Foreign Correspondent , as a graphic and powerful indictment of Trump and the awful people he surrounded himself with - including one, actively propagating the policy of separating children from their parents.    The grandson, no less, of Holocaust survivors.   Shameful! 

To say that Israel has wrought death and destruction on the Gazans is an oxymoron.   That has been known to those who have taken an interest and followed events in the Middle East - and,  in particular, Israel and the Palestinians. All too sadly the media has been craven to following the Israel perspective on what has been happening over the years.   The Palestinians have barely figured so that not only has the world not really known or understood what has been happening but what suffering the Palestinians have been going through.    The most recent events have shone light on the whole situation.    And the world doesn't like what it has seen.    The tide has been turned as this piece on Mondoweiss explains.    ‘ NYT’ puts faces of 60+ slain Palestinian children on front page, at last "The New York Times does an unprecedented thing for a paper that has long supported Israel: puts the faces of dozens of Palestinian children slaughtered by Israel in Gaza on its front page. “Neve