A big thank you for this thoughtful response, Rex Kerr - I would have replied sooner but I only saw this now as someone I subscribe to, left a comment today, which brought me back to this page. I wonder if you read Antoun Ananias' comment right at the top? He provides details of the terror that was spread by the four military groups trained by the British in making bombs and they then went on to make hundreds of attacks. I won't repeat the details which he has eloquently provided. Much of what he says is new to me. And I am someone who has attended conferences eg back in 1987, a conference organised by socialist Jewish people in London. While I always saw through the falsity of the long-prevailing narrative of Israel as the lone, 'plucky little democracy', in the Arabic region, I think it is being exposed to the level of indiscriminate violence against an unarmed population, that is driving the world wide censure and level of disgust towards Israel. Yet still, too many pro-Israels are continuing to propagate the now clearly nonsensical narrative of Israel as the eternal victim.

SO it is in that context, of how those with power erase the perceptions and experience of the dominated, which in the case of the West, has led to the decimation of many cultures and peoples on every continent they have invaded over the past 400 or so years.

Language fulfils the basic human need to make sense of our experience and we name external objects through the prism of our individual subjectivity - which if taken up by a collective of people, becomes an acceptable term, noting the reality they are experiencing.

Obviously those paying for and sending the bombs incinerating children and burying whole families under mountains of rubble, are going to minimise the levels of suffering and slaughter they are creating; that is not the case for those seeking to be a voice for the destroyed.

So yes, to describe the truth of reality, we might feel the need to coin new terms, from the point of view of the slaughtered and the dispossessed. That is not childish or immature.