What century is it?

When I read the story of the Chagossians I felt such pain and sympathy for those people. The opening lines for Bob Marley's song "War" came to mind. For those unfamiliar with the song it goes like this:

"Until, the philosophy, that holds one race superior and another, inferior, is finally, and permanently, discredited, and abandoned, everywhere is war"

For me such an experience is comparbale only to the days of slavery .When our ancestors were taken forcibly from their homelands and told after returning that they had no right to steward the very lands that they had lived and died on for generations before the invaders even knew it existed. How can you not wish vengeance on those persons? At least that was the first thought.

Young children, young girls and women particularly are sold into slavery every day. That was the second thought. At the very least their land will still be their own... if they can get back there.

And what about Palestine and Israel the thought went on. Centuries of warfare. Palestine now has a government, democratically elected too, that does not recognise the right of its neighbour to exist. (Scratches head) For a second I thought we were in the 21st century, doesn't seem much different from the days of yore . Guess H.G. Wells didn't really need to do any research into time travel since we just repeat ourselves anyway.