Israel/Palestine

as I've pointed out. It is a horrendous mess and one with many guilty parties stretching back a great number of decades. Suffice it to say that countries lead by the French, British and US have for well over a century practiced double-dealing and hypocrisy in their dealings in Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as elsewhere.

Writers far better than I have produced articles pointing out the conduct of the former Colonial powers in the post-Colonial period towards the nations they formerly controlled. It is much of this "illusion of having your freedom" that is talked about. The best way I have heard it posed is one writer from an African nation said "How am I free if you are still doing what you can to control me"?