You always come up with intriguing proposals which express your creativity and optimistic hope, Gail.

I want to emphasise that I am sure no-one wants to see more people die.

As we are seeing in Palestine, the far higher price is paid by those resisting settler colonialism, with their bare hands and bodies. They are in fact, punished for existing on land that the European oppressors have decided to claim.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that it is the invaders, the exploiters who, wanting to maintain their hold on their ill-gotten gains, over decades/centuries, who are the ones who unleash their far more deadly weaponry on mostly unarmed citizens , seeking to get their own lands and control over their own resources.

Instead of showing remorse and leaving, they like serial killers, show NO remorse and so we witness how they compound their crimes, with further horror and crimes against humanity.

Think of the British in Kenya, in the 1940's who had taken over the most fertile land, and forced people to work for them. When people organised a resistance (the May May) they were captured, put in concentration camps, raped, roasted alive... such horrific things done... to teach the survivors the lesson - not to resist Whyte rule.

But Indigenous peoples just want what the 'settlers' who resisted the taxes from the English Crown, wanted - freedom from unjust laws and exploitation.

This is a long way of saying, when the oppressors get their collective foot off the neck of the Global South )ie the USA/UK/Germany/NATO-maintained mayhem - there is hope for violence to stop.