“So do you know how many butchers we have?”
“The price of meat is kinda going through the roof so maybe they need to seek alternate employment….why are you laughing?”
“Don’t underestimate our butchers’ capacity to amend their, how shall I put it, raw material.”
“What?”
“The meat – you know they would be doing a service getting rid of these pesky strays on our streets….”
“Shut up anyway when I referred to butchers I meant world leaders who give orders to commit large scale murder?”
“Since when?”
“Since recorded history.”
“You need to really narrow the time down! There are simply too many….”
“OK so the past five decade or so but with one stipulation: don’t focus on butchers who give the orders to kill their own.”
“OK so that leaves out Caligula, Stalin and several African leaders and rebel groups, the deposed Bangladeshi leader, Modi’s India…”
“Leave Modi be – he has been silenced for the first time in his political life, you know since his sycophantic speech to the Israeli parliament two or three days before US/Israel attack on Iran…”
“I guess anyway can you name those who have overtly ethnically cleansed…”
“Hitler comes to mind, he hated Jews. Milosevic of Serbia hated Muslims…..….”
“The two were punished – they died horrible deaths.”
“You want me to name Netanyahu don’t you? But you know Gaza is part of Greater Israel so your stipulation that I don’t include those who kill their own….”
“Stop, he has butchered more than 74,000 Palestinians since 7 October 2023, deaths that have been documented, with more than 10 deaths daily during the ongoing ceasefire, he pretty much roams the world as he pleases, is bombing Lebanon to oblivion and the world….”
“Is simply exhorting him to stop.”
“People power is now against him but political power in the West remains in the hands of the Israelis, so no, no change in support for Netanyahu yet.”
“Nope you can’t put all in one basket – Sanchez the Spanish Prime Minister made a rather impressive comment about the US-Iran peace process: Spain won’t applaud those who set the world on fire just because they then show up with a bucket.”
“Hey if that gets the killing to stop…..”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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