There's a national peace march today in London but I'm not going myself - partly because I'm not feeling too well but mainly because of the potential "Pax Obama" effect.

By Pax Obama I mean the temporary peace that the installation of the new American President that I believe will bring to the Middle East. Note that Israel was very careful to withdraw from Gaza before his inauguration, almost as if things were scheduled for that date, and Hamas has fired no fresh rockets.

I think that the various nations may work on getting more peaceful, including across the war-torn parts of Africa, wary of angering an America with a new and untested foreign policy direction.

Besides I predict that most of the marchers simply won't be able to get the final destination of today's march because there will probably be a clash at the either the starting place, at the BBC, or by Downing Street where the march is meant to pass through. If so the police will shit things down.

The news that the BBC has rejected a Gaza aid advert will not go down well with the angry mob and the anarchists who'll want to join them.

However if things are peaceful enough I'll seek to join the march next time, which will probably be in a fortnight or so.