Winston Churchill- The Peace Blog

Winston Churchill (no, he's not for peace...V is for Victory.) That's how the peace sign started. From Wikipedia: "The V sign is a hand gesture in which the first and second fingers are raised and parted, whilst the remaining fingers are clenched. With palm inwards, in the United Kingdom and some other English speaking countries, it is an obscene insulting gesture of defiance. During the Second World War Winston Churchill popularised its use as a "Victory" sign (for V as in victory) initially with palm inwards and later in the war palm outwards. With the palm outwards, it is also used to mean "Peace", a meaning that became popular in the United States during the peace movement of the 1960s."



This guy is great, man. Here's a quote of his from "We Arundhati Roy": "Winston Churchill said of the Palestinians: 'I do not agree that the dog in a manger, has the right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race of more worldly wiseries to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. '
That set the trend for the Israeli states' attitudes towards Palestinians. "
-Arundhati Roy