I don't deny that Peace - that was my own personal opinion, reached long before that gentleman published his research.

When I was a kid, there was this movie with a wonderful piano theme - I loved it so much I persuaded my parents to buy the sheet music - Played it to death.

Then as I matured, I discovered that this story of a despised people fighting gallantly with the gun to murder or drive out the people who were living there in their 'Promised Land' sounded remarkably like a replay of several thousand years before that I had heard in Sunday School.

Further, as I matured and studied wider, and also from sources that did not always follow any particular party line, I began to believe that I had been conned by that movie.

Further as the "Lest We Forget The Holocaust" 'Industry' gathered momentum, I noticed that most public mentions of that horror seemed to skim over just how many others outside of a very narrow ethnic/religious group were NOT remembered as sincerely, or indeed as often.


I still like that piece of music. I notice that commercial Australian Radio never seems to play it as much as other hits of the time.