A New United Nations, a new approach to Aid, and foreign affairs

A whole re-organisation of the UN rule book is in order.
New regulations:

  • No more cowtowing to tin-pot dictators.
  • Give the "malevolent" dictators a much lesser vote, or none at all, but they can stay and listen and learn from the good.
  • Benevolent dictators should get an equal vote, if they are doing their best to make progress for the greatest number of their people.
  • Less "political correctness"- some "spades" need to be called "spades", though when the best interests of the many are in mind, sensitivity should be used.
Iran is a democracy (flawed, maybe, but a democracy nevertheless) and must therefore be respected.
And we in the West need to have more self-respect!

Saudi Arabia and most other Arab countries are not democracies, but most have now come to terms with our way of life. Progress is being made on all fronts.

Hamas-all great on paper-they have been doing good for their people in Gaza, social work, education, etc.. BUT.. they seek the violent destruction of Israel. Not such a good idea, and counter - productive... in the extreme.

If they (and Iran, their inspiration and paymasters) were to open their hand to Israel (and the USA) instead of sending their rockets and young gullible suicide bombers, Israel would almost certainly reciprocate with their open hand, and so almost definitely would the USA.
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Israel hasn't been bombing the West Bank and/or Fatah leaders or members (who believe in the peaceful solution to the conflict- the two state solution or the Arab Peace Initiative) has it?
I wonder why not?

Indeed, if a long time ago, the Palestinians had forsaken their guns and bombs, and had just marched into Israel with their placards demanding a settlement, sat down in the streets, and conducted a PEACEFUL campaign, they could have won a peaceful settlement decades ago, I'm pretty sure.
If Israel had done any great violence to them, the whole world (even the USA, surely) would have been "up in arms" themselves!

Some examples of peaceful protesting and action producing "transformational" change:
  • The "People Power Revolution" in the Phillipines defeated their dictator President Marcos. PEACEFULLY-except for when the army fired on the people. It was an inspiration for the whole world.
  • The Serbian "People's Power" revolt got rid of Milosevic (peacefully). He was just like Hilter in whipping up nationalistic fervour and hatred that led to the terrible breakup of Yugoslavia, and leading his people to war against all but themselves and their kind.
  • Gandhi, the best example of all, through a campaign of peaceful mass resistance, basically defeated the might of the British Empire (or at least, hastened it's demise).

Aid

  • All aid should be dependant on good governance and use of the resources given, and for it to be targeted direnctly to those in need.
  • Bad governance should mean that it will be very closely monitored, and targeted directly:
    • by the UN, or
    • whichever national/international agency is involved.

These two conditions for acceptance in the UN might be a way to guide these leaders into a more democratic, or at least "benevolent" mindset.
We have to accept that not all peoples or countries are ready for "democracy".

Why not wipe out all unbearable debts (or as much as possible): international, national and maybe even personal, and start with a clean slate? Banks routinely take losses on debts, and the nation's tax payers are certainly losing billions upon billions into the Banks' coffers, and to what good effect so far?

I'm sure it can be done, somehow, if the whole world gets it's act together.

China has already bought billions of the US's national Debt, so they have got faith in them.
That's all we really need right now - to regain faith in ourselves, our financial institutions and their regulators.
Plus, for us all to start with a fresh vision of the future for ourselves, and our world, together with as much unity as can be mustered.

All nations should keep the good and valuable traditions, but throw out the bad old ways/habits-it's a new world and new thinking and attitudes are needed everywhere - or we'll be retreating back to the old ways and bad habits.

 Never throw out the Baby with the bath water, as the Baby is too precious.
But the bath water, and even the bath, can go.
Everything needs replacing...eventually.

But you cannot replace the Baby!

 

Please realise that this website has been rushed in order to get it "out there" asap...

...some editing is still needed