Ok, this is just the last tip for the tv debate tomorrow.
The core of the civil rights movement was, that each citizen is judged by his or her ability and willingness to adhere to the rules of the democratic state.
That is; vote, respect the law and have faith and respect for the constitution. Especially the AMENDMENTS to the constitution, that is the basic rules essentially.
This is why the “We the people” is such a powerful proverb.
It is the sanctified blessing of the democratic state.
Now, why is democracy good? Because it makes a world where the weak is protected against the abuse of the strong. Law is there to protect the weak against the strong.
This is really the core of it all, go with that Kamala, and you will win hearts and minds from a place, that is YOU.
Constitution, We the people, protection of the weak, and you have a formula to win on.
G-d bless the will to win the election, and may the Democracy of the US prosper.
Ok, the good news is, that we are finally figuring out a way to remove ourselves from the negotiations only, and try new paths to redemption and reconciliation.
The bad news is, that there is a long way to go from here, to peace in the Middle East.
First of all, the regional competition between Israel and Iran has escalated massively the last year, and deescalating that conflict will take time.
There is really no reason to go to an all out war with Iran, but there is off cause cause for worry.
Yet to understand Iran, we have to see the for what they are; a conservative, islamic renaissance movement.
They are heirs to a tradition that is a thousand years old.
It is not a bogey man, it is an old and very advanced culture, that is angry with us, because we have not taken them seriously.
What they want, at least in the beginning, was self-determination and self respect. Today, the system has become quite unpopular, because of the hard reaction to women especially and it is very, very controlling.
Yet they have ideas that we should respect as well. The world is not black and white.
So Hezbollah is the most pure reflection of this point of view, and they have been destroying most of the north. So there is that.
Yet, if we start focusing on what it really is that we are fighting against, that of Iran and its proxies, and seek some kind of closure with that enemy, hopefully the threat of Hamas diminishes.
Yet we should be aware, that our political capital has run out, that there is soon a new president in the White house, and we have to be careful to have allies.
So my advice is, not all conflicts are meant to be solved with guns, some conflicts can be solved with diplomacy, and if we use our energy on Iran instead of Hamas, the chance that we will get along lines of true progress are much, much higher.
G-d bless the will to find peace in the Middle East.
Dear majesty Queen Rania of Jordan. You have no idea how much we have fought for a world of humanism and decency.
When the war started, I as a European Jew, fought to unite the country of Israel behind sound virtues and value. Israel was a the edge of collapsing.
When the war dragged on, we did all we could to make a peace deal.
We did this, as European Humanists, to stop the suffering, to make a world where both Palestinian Arab as Jew are living side by side.
We know, that there is no such thing as one right or the other being wrong. There is a chasm of animosity, despair, and also heroism and valiancy.
Both sides fight for their freedom and what they see as their bare survival, and the thing is. They are both right. It is a game of survival.
Yet, it is also a game of trying to see who you are yourself, and what you can live with.
If you fight the evil Nazies all your life, you become a nazi, you become what you PICTURE a nazi being.
So, we have brought everything to the table, and the European Union is in and devastated as well.
We are doing everything in our power to minimize the suffering of both sides.
We know that we have not been able to get through with our intentions. So that is what it is.
Yet, there is a new plan, and that plan is for the entirety of the Middle East to say; no. We do not support this, or condone more violence. You can fight, if you want, we can’t stop you, if you want to go on fighting. But we can make the choice ourselves, and say. We refuse to be dragged into this horrible conflict.
Humanism is about being soft at heart, and being true.
Truth is the most powerful of all weapons, and if we just say the truth. That there are no winning side here. There is only two loosing sides, then the peace will happen.
G-d bless the will to remain adamant in finding peace, and make the Middle East a place of rejuvenation and powerful progress.
I think, that for the couple of ms. Harrison and Mr. Walz to win, we need to have depth and integrity in what we present to the public.
The prejudice is, like when Obama and I fought to make a good run in his presidency; what can a black woman bring to the table.
I know that it stings and hurts, yet this will be the reality. One has to bring something exceptional to the table.
So, this is something we have to figure out; how do we present a case of renewal of the American Democracy that really brings it to a better place.
I believe, that the economic theories are at the right place. Yet what about the rest?
Here I think, that, at least, mr. Bidens infrastructure project is something we can inherit.
Yet, the most important is to tell at story, that the Americans can feel and solidarice with.
To me, that is civil rights.
Rev. King and his dream is a very safe bet, and something that all Americans red, white, brown and black agree with. That is, that as long as we all believe in Democracy and civil rights, we can get along.
Barack won his second term on that ticket, and ms. Harris has it in her background, to put that idea forth. For the people.
G-d bless the will to find a place, where we can all win and none is left behind.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Concerning my attitude to the peace work.
The most beautiful way to do that, is the way of Mahatma Ghandi, rev. Martin Luther King and the philosopher Henry David Thoreau.
Non violence.
This is best done, if it is combined with enlightenment.
Enlightenment and the pursuit of justice by the word, is often met with animosity by a corrupted state.
So fighting in my mind is fighting to enlighten.
The same I think is possible in the Middle East as for now.
G-d bless the will to enlighten the world.
Ok, essentially I believe, that we have moved on the Gaza/Israel issue from one angle all the time, and missed, that there is another angle, that we used to have a lot of success with the last time Obama was moving in the Middle East.
Instead of focusing on Hamas, what we did was to work on the issues at the source. That is, we fought Ahmadinejad and made peace with Iran.
If effect isolating Hamas.
That was what brought peace the last time.
It requires diplomacy, skill and military force.
But in the end, we all started fighting Isis, and we were all pretty happy about that.
So, my proposal is; why dont we lift our gaze from Gaza, and start working on the real issues. That is the relationship between Iran and US, and ultimately Russia.
Because deep down, the conflict is a reflection of the Russian/US war also.
This gives the EU a central role, because the EU has very good relations with Iran.
So by starting the talk with Iran, and trying to find a way to deescalate the tension, we can defuse the war at the root level.
G-d bless the will to make peace in the Middle East.
Ok, so the Russians are worried about the plight of the Palestinians.
They have nowhere to be right now, not in Gaza not in the West Bank.
If we want to deescalate the tension in the region. Listening to the Russians is a good place to start.
So far, Israel has been an ally of Russia, and we should keep it that way.
So, my advise is; make sure that the CIVILIANS of Gaza and the West Bank have places to be safe. I know that Hezbollah does not make things safe in the North. Yet a positive move from the side of Israel, LISTENING to Russia and its worries is a step in the right direction.
G-d bless the will to make things work in Israel again, may we have calm and quiet, eventually.
To cite Nietzsche; “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
This is the danger of war, you look into the destruction around you, and you meet unbridled agression. You become like that.
This is how I try to tackle it.
For a long time, I have been at the receiving end of the secret services agression here in Denmark.
They use the Capone method on me, trying to destroy me by using the economic arm of the state.
When I lost my TV station, they almost had me, and continued destroying my economy.
There were months, when I had almost no money to buy food. I had to sell a lot of my things just to put food on the table and keep a roof over my head.
The PET just went on hammering me, finding all kinds of excuses for taking money from the social services I had ended up on.
So I fought for peace, and instead of succumbing to their negative behaviour and violence of the PET, I put myself on a path of rebuilding. I got a new job, then two now three as a caretaker for boys with autism and ALS.
So I rebuild my life from bottom up, now things are ok.
I could have succumbed to the anger and the agression, and I did a few times. When they started targeting my children, I was angry.
Yet by the grace of the angels and my new beautiful girlfriend, I managed to stay on a positive path.
Because that is really the danger of fighting a foe like Hamas. Hamas is the most violent jihadi group in existence, and if we keep repaying tit for tat, where do we end?
As being the same as Hamas.
Yet if we stay on a course, that is essentially positive and is what WE are. The soft at heart, humanistic people, then we will end up in that world.
We are warriors, and I have almost destroyed the PET with my powers, and a lot of other enemies. Yet, I simply refuse to become like them.
We should be able to look ourselves in the mirror, and we do that, by remembering who we are, and be that.
G-d bless the will to keep our soul sound.
I find it very, very encouraging, that there is, in this deepest hour of despair a sense of hope in the negotiations with Saudi Arabia.
His highness Muḥammad bin Salmān Āl Su‘ūd is a ruler, who has ambitions with his country, that are in alignment with the positive ambition of Israel.
An ambition of prosperity, progress and advancement.
This is what Israel can be, when we get peace, a friend and a possible companion.
What we have to figure out, is how we avoid embarrassing our Arab allies.
When we go on an all other war, and show very little care for our allies, then this is, in the Arab world, quite embarrassing.
When we are at peace, we should be careful and keep that respect and appreciation of our neighbors.
That is how we get from being a start up nation, to being a mature nation. A nation, where we try and be respectful for those around us.
Our friends run a risk of loosing face, if we do not treat people around us with the courtesy and civility that they expect.
I know, that we are incessantly attacked by Hamas, yet WE should mind the image we project to the world. We are living in a connected world, and people notice.
To be good neighbors, to our adjacent nations, we need to start thinking about them as neighbors and try to find a positive way of that.
How do you do that? You do it by outstretching your hand, invite them in for a cup a tea. If they are in need of help when their lights go out, we try and find the switch, with the utmost respect of cause.
Yet this is the difficult balance. At one hand we have to be the exemplary neighbor and at the same time we need to look out for Hamas and other devastating enemies.
G-d bless the will to evolve into the light upon the Nations, and we could start by being a good neighbor.
Well, what is really the positive possibilities of the Middle East?
According to his highness Muḥammad bin Salmān Āl Su‘ūd, his vision is to put the Middle East at the forefront of international development. Make the Middle East great, in a sense.
So what does that mean? It means that in all the stages of development there should be a clear contribution of the Middle East to the world at large. Take mr. Musks ambition for the Mars Mission, here the Middle East has been a part. Take architecture, again here Saudi Arabia has been at the forefront of development.
And so and so forth, that is, by all means an amazing positive vision.
How does this vision relate to the vision of Israel. Well, as prophet Isaiah proclaimed, very ambitious as well, Israel should be the light upon the nations, meaning that Israel should be a beacon of hope, sharing of knowledge and development.
Before the 7 of October, we were almost there. There were issues, yet Israel was rich, at the forefront of art, science, technology. It was called the “start up nation”.
I other words, the vision of his highness Salman Āl Su‘ūd and the vision of Israel are like two visions that SUPPORT each other. In fact, they are the same.
So, this is what the Middle East can be, when we start really moving to a higher gear and we shed the shackles of destruction and war. Each of us can carry that light, as the prophets of the ancients decreed. In fact, not doing as the prophets decreed is stepping away from the face of happiness and development.
When the Middle East gets to a point, where we are in fact able to lift ourselves, the greatness that lie as a mighty lion of civilisation will be unleashed. The Middle East is where civilisation is born, just imagine when that mission is realized again, the movement and positive development it can create.
G-d bless the will to create and develop the Middle East, and may it again rise as it is its birthright.
Ok, lets try an analyze the premisses for the peace negotiations.
On one hand we have Hamas, that is thriving in opposition. It needs the war to be of any matter. This does not mean that Hamas is evil. Hamas is not evil. I understand, and apologize for calling Hamas a death cult. I know, Hamas fights for the freedom of the Palestinian people.
At the other hand, we have the Israelis that are angry and prone to project this anger onto Hamas. Jews are certainly not evil either, I am a Jew myself, and have a lot of wonderful Jewish friends.
So, what is the answer. The answer is to find a way to make a solution that both parties can agree upon.
This however will only happen, when the Israelis realize, that it is not possible to destroy Hamas.
Hamas has endless tunnels to hide in, supplies and so on.
It is a Vietnam scenario, and the Americans lost in Vietnam, because of the tunnels in Vietnam. This is not to discourage. It is simply to state the historical experience.
We thought, that after Rafah, it would be ok. But it didn’t, then we got caught up in the West Bank and Hezbollah.
The TERRAIN remains the problem.
Until someone figures out how to fix that, there is no fixing the war.
It will be endless.
That is why a deal is the only way, at least if we wish to stop this endless and honestly pointless war. We are not going to get the hostages home by war. That is the only possible answer. If we had been able to do that, it would have happened already.
At the other side. Hamas is also hardpressed, and the ultimate goal; to unite all of the Middle East against Israel, is not going to happen, not as long as the Nations of the Middle East are open for at positive progression. Because maybe Israel as a democracy is going gong ho Hamas. But its royalty, that happens to be me, is more into finding positive and lasting solutions.
My friends are the royalty of the Arab Nations, and we all just want to get this over, and start doing cool things together.
Add to this, Iran may have a bad rep. But my experience with them is, that we agree on the whole spiritual, positive path. They want peace as well, and be accepted.
I know that there is the whole women issue in Iran, yet the mullahs are not evil, they are conservative.
Knitting this puzzle together, is what we need to do.
Hamas needs to realize, that there is not going to be a front of Arab Nations against Israel.
Israel needs to realize, that there is not going to be a total eradication of Hamas.
So, that is the facts on the ground.
Please, do something constructive with that insight.
G-d bless the will to find common ground, and may we have peace.
There is a wide acceptance of the attempt at making peace both in the negotiations and a wide outreach to the nations of the Middle East. From Iran to the Arab nations.
Maybe a combined process is what we need to get out of the gridlock.
At least this will truly realize the meaning of Israel as the light upon the Nations.
G-d bless the will to find peace, and may we all prosper and find happiness.
Ok, I get it. The Biden administration is so invested in the peace deal negotiations, that abandoning these negotiations now is simply not possible.
So, we do that. We continue, and do our best.
At the same time, I will try and make bridges of dialogue in between the nations of the Middle East.
These amazing, historical nations with layers and layers of history.
Then I will be supporting the Biden administration in its work in the negotiations and at the same time support the broader peace work across the Middle East.
Are you ok with that?
G-d bless the will to find peace.
Well, to me the proposal of Mr. Netanyahu is the usual brilliance of his work. It is balanced, realistic and will give the deal the right amount of movement.
Well done Benyamin. The crown political move of your career. That was top notch.
G-d bless the will for Israel to survive. May we prosper.
Ok, now please, think. If Hamas, after almost a year of war, say themselves, that they can see, that they have almost disrupted the normalization of Israel. And they then make an atrocity to maximise the disruption. Then what is their aim?
It was not by accident, that exactly the child that had parents that spoke at the DNC, Democratic national congress, was killed.
Why would they do that? To provoke. What is it that they want to provoke? Mayhem, disruption of alliances, and general discord.
What will that lead to? The weakening of the alliances of not only Israel, but also the Arab nations, that so far have been allied with the US.
If they manage to attain that goal, just imagine the victory for them.
That is what they are aiming for now. In the beginning, they had no idea, that they would get that far.
The fact, that they have gotten this far, is due to lack of coordination and understanding of the goals of the war from the Israeli side.
No one really knows what we are fighting for, the goal of the war.
So in this situation, we leave the initiative to the enemy that in this case is a small rebel force, that has only a few hostages to work with.
The fact, that they almost tore down the entire US alliance in the Middle East is astounding.
The fact, that the Israeli side still have not realized their aim is equally astounding.
The only way we get out of this quagmire for real, is if we keep the alliances, because, that is the real victory goal.
I know that the hostages are equally import. Yet from a super strategic point of view, that we really need to get onto, that is the victory goal. To keep Israel safe, we need to have allies and make things with them to our mutual benefit.
That is the bare boned simple truth, right there.
G-d bless the will for Israel to survive.