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.

One of the things, that really struck me, when I started working on the green desert project with Hans, was the scale and ambition of it.

His majesty Sheik Zayed, wanted to do something that was beyond his own time.

He created a dream, for his people to hang on to and create an atmosphere of hope and striving.

We human beings need to have something to strive for. We need to know, that there is a positive goal out there in the horizon.

A goal that we may not reach ourselves, maybe it will be our sons and daughters, maybe further down the line of generations.

Like Rav Ashlag, who dreamt that one day all three monotheistic religions would come together and thereby make peace.

It seems unattainable. Yet the scope and the ambition inspires.

Like the first settlers who dreamt of an Eden in the US, a paradise to strive for.

We inherit these dreams and visions.

We can choose to work for a positive vision or to get sucked into the destructive tit for tat of war.

We can choose ourselves, and if we do choose the positive vision, we use our lives to build and make a better world.

When you get old and look back at your life, the most important thing to have done is to have built something.

A family, a nation, a business.

If you can look back at your life and see that you used your life for the betterment of the human species in some small or large way, your life will make sense.

Life is chaotic and difficult to navigate. Yet, positivity, construction and striving for something better is what we should do, if we want to make our lives truly matter.

It is not easy, because the destruction of materialism is there all around us. We should not be naive, and off cause we should defend ourselves. But we should be honest to ourselves in the realization that the meaning of life, is to create.

G-d bless the will to be creators ourselves.

Okay, so the Harris/Walz side is presenting a new economic proposal.

These are my reflections on it.

First of all, much better than the first proposal, it has depth, and it carries forth a genuine motivation on supporting small business owners.

My initial idea was essentially to support ALL production, yet these news ideas show, that the economical theories are developing and is colored by each side.

So the republicans are supporting the larger enterprises and the Democrats are supporting the smaller enterprises.

That makes pretty good sense, since we at the Democratic side is supposed to care for the little guy.

What I think is also important is to remember, is the unfair competition from China.

When we initially launched the new economic theories in opposition to Mitt Romney. His problem was, that he had been outsourcing a lot of American production. He made all his money on that.

Trump has had a lot of success with his angle on my ideas, and made a lot of jobs in the US. Biden has built on this, and now Harris is developing the ideas even further.

Small business owners are in danger of succumbing to issues as low prices and unfair competition from China, so I would humbly advise to include the Chinese angle in the economical discussion.

G-d bless the United States of America, and may we prosper.

Ok, so maybe some may consider my motivation for engaging in the peace work.

My great grandmother fled to Sweden in the middle of the Holocaust. She fought for freedom and decency.

The rest of my family fought against the nazies. With weapons. There were the black sheep here and there. Yet we fought for the freedom for the Danes and Jews.

My family is an aristocratic Jewish family.

We have been leading culture and business for hundreds of years in Denmark.

So, the founder of Zionism Brandes was a friend of my great grandmother.

It has been handed down from generation to generation to watch out for the Jews.

Now, the Rotschild’s may have put their signature on the birth certificate of Israel, yet my family was a close second in the zionistic ideas of a free democratic country, based on humanism.

That is my motivation. To watch out for Israel and protect it.

Seeing things from the above and mend the relations inbetween Israel and its allies.

It is a genuine and heartfelt attempt at being a guardian of Israel.

G-d bless the will for Israel to survive and be strengthened.

Ok, so there is a final proposal on the table. Let’s see if we can figure out the ups and downs of it.

At the end, endless discussions is not a process that makes much sense, so I agree with the intention. Either it makes sense to make a deal or not.

So what will happen if the deal is rejected? Seen from the Israeli side it will mean the weakening of its alliances. After all it is the Israeli allies that are negotiating.

If there is no deal, it will mean, that the allies will take a step back and see what will happen.

Seen from a Palestinian Arab side, what will happen.

Well there will be no real immediate consequences. Since Hamas is allied with the Russian/Iranian side, it will not loose much.

So Hamas has a strong hand.

Where does that lead to?

It leads to the fact, that it is essentially most in the interest of Israel to make the deal.

What will make Hamas make a deal? It will only make a deal if it has a chance of survival, because in the long run, if the deal is off the table, it will give Israel the time to cut off all roads to resupply of arms and so on. The leadership of Hamas will be destroyed and the Palestinian in general will turn against Hamas. It has already begun.

The question is, will Israel trade the survival of Hamas for the ability to remain in the good grace of its allies?

G-d bless the will to finally find peace.

Well, we need to start lifting our gaze from Gaza to the international game.

Hamas has played us for some time. If they are trying to dissolve the alliances of Israel and we are fighting to keep the Philadelphia corridor. They are the ones who are controlling the outcome of the war.

When we look at it. What is the quality of a stable and sound relationship to our Arab neighbors.

It is peace and stability of Israel. Not only for the next few years but for the rest of the existence of the country.

We would have won a stable situation.

Going from a startup to a fully fledged country, that has the future in front of it.

This is what Hamas fears. That we mature and become a stable country.

So their victory condition is to disrupt and destroy that.

At least a part of our victory condition should be to keep the maturing of the country to become a stable country.

Off cause getting the rest of the hostages home is equally important. In fact it is more important. The human lives that are in the hell they are in now, should be saved.

So we need to play the game smarter.

What are we? The David or the Goliath?

We need to think in terms of how David would think. Outsmart, use our resources wisely.

Garner international support for our cause.

If we do that, we fight in the way we are supposed to.

G-d bless the will to realize the victory terms that fit us.

Ok, at least now we know the terms of loss and victory for Hamas. Hamas is gunning for a destabilizing of Israel, by destroying the relations Israel has with its neighbors.

So that is what victory is from a Hamas perspective. This makes it pretty clear what would make victory from an Israeli perspective. That would be to remain a stable and prosperous player in the Middle East.

So in a way, we at least now know, what it is that Hamas is playing for.

They are wise in that manner, you must give them that.

G-d bless the will to be in the understanding of the war, and how we may be on the winning team.

All right, maybe all is not lost yet.

Guys, you need to think. Why did Hamas murder the hostages? Why? You need to reflect on that question, if you want to make a response that actually makes sense when it comes to furthering the agenda of Israel.

I will tell you why. They did it, because Hamas has realized that the only real political effect the Gaza war has had, has been the destruction of the Arab alliance built under Obama.

So, how do they strengthen that effect?

They do it by provoking both the Americans as well as Israel.

It is a master stroke. And so far, you have reacted just the way they wanted.

If you do not understand the game, you will be manipulated with by the smarter opponent.

So maybe the current leadership of Israel simply do not care about the loss of half of its allies. But you should. I mean, the loss is tremendous and the normalization that is required for Israel to be at peace with its neighbors is almost gone.

So please, think about it. What would counter the ploy of Hamas?

It would be, to isolate Hamas and say. Well we understand that not all Palestinians and Arabs do things like murdering civilians, and we see this as a reflection of the Hamas only.

With this, you have isolated them, and you can be the good guy.

Care for the families of victims. Be a victim.

If you do that, the ploy will boomerang back at Hamas.

So, please, we need to play the game better than Hamas. Right now, you are being manipulated.

Sorry, but you need to know to play the game in a manner where you win, we get peace and everybody can go back to living their lives in peace.

G-d bless the will to see things clearly.

Ok, the the whole Middle East conflict has really come to a pivotal moment.

At one hand, the entire Arab alliance is crumbling for the Americans. The normalization that was almost complete before the 7 October is void, for now at least.

I understand that the Arab nations cannot continue watching the wars and fighting and just stand back.

At the other hand, my own project and the respect and engagement I have in the Arab Nations is actually strengthened.

I believe, that the work and vision of the forests of the desert will come in to existence.

I have a really good relationship to Saudi Arabia as well.

So the process of peace and reconciliation is still active.

We will see what will happen in the future, yet we will see a two pronged path. One for those who seek peace, and one for those who seek war and conflict.

I am now kind of on my own. I still sense, that the EU and a lot of the good liberals and conservatives are backing my effort.

Yet the grander movers and shakers are moving towards war and conflict.

G-d bless the will to keep seeking for peace, where there is an opening.