There Should Be.

There should be a cure for cancer by now, new drugs tested by the FDA and improved technology: proton beam radiation, brachytherapy and radiotherapy. There is a cure, partly. There should be a resolution to the dispute, like a cancer, between Israel and the Palestinians, who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, dispossessed people without a country. The two-state solution is yet to be. There should have been lasting peace after the Second World War theater; instead there has been a stream of wars in the Middle East, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, some with a progressive outcome, some not. Republics of perpetual peace are few. All New Zealanders should find peace of mind with jobs and houses; yet I have seen men in tatters out in the cold and homeless. -1 November,2019.