Strong Fences Make Good Neighbours
People come up with all sorts of ideological reasons to try to explain conflict – “religion” is a favourite (Islam now, Christianity at various periods in the past), or nationalism, inequality, tyrannical government, whatever the bee may be in your particular bonnet. The truth is that these are mere excuses, evasions of the true causes of conflict which are ineradicable human characteristics – fear, or greed, or envy and thus the hatred which those emotions engender. The search for a solution…