The new relationship that Leonor and I have, carries a lot of potential.

But, we have to be very careful. One false step, and things will go sideways.

Getting drunk and playing beer pong, may seem that a lot of fun, but that is not a way for a future queen.

It can work, but Leonor, you have to take this very serious.

When we work on this level of politics, the press is lurking, there are a lot of people who are not really interested in our success.

So we have to be very careful, and take the development of our relationship very slow.

We will get there, but we have to take a adult angle on this.

This is how it is, sometimes being born into a place of privilege can be a burden, but if you navigate it in the right way, it can also be a source of strength and makes for at very happy life.

G-d bless the will to be wishing for decorum and be looking at the good future with a lot of happiness. Let your love guide, not your immediate impulses at the day.

Dear princess, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me, you look just beautiful. Your inner as well as your outer beauty is just, hands down, out of this world.

It is all down to your ability to be true and honest. These virtues are old fashioned these days, but they are important if you really want a relationship to be sound and happy.

When we meet, I hope, that what we can debate are some those things. The important things about how we change the world, to a better place.

G-d bless the will to be honest in the face of this world.

There is no discussion on the power play between the federal level and the national level right now en the EU parliament. Yes, I get it, there are other discussions that count, these discussions are very important, I have contributed to a lot of them.

But maybe, we should ADD the discussion on the power distribution as well. This is what the strengthened conservative parliament wants to discuss. And to be honest, that is fair, because they have won a ticket to do that by the citizens of Europe.

So, we should maybe start the discussion now, so that we do not end up in a lot arguing and disagreement.

It is essentially fair enough, that the nations of Europe want clearer demarcations between the federal and the national level.

The issue is; how do we actually tackle the issue, without starting to argue about it. We should find a compromise, and make the EU stronger in that way. If we find a compromise, the legality and acceptance of the EU will solidify, and we can stop the discussion on whether we want a EU or not, and more of; where do the system really make sense?

Chaques Chirac, that made the last great revision of the EU was a genius, taking the debate of the time, and trying to make both af liberal as well as a conservative compromise in his time.

This is an ideal we can strive for, and do the same in our time.

G-d bless the will to find new, and stronger understandings of what the EU can be.

You know it is quite funny with the blog. I have, by luck and fortune, a lot of really rich and famous readers on the blog.

They become friend and family after some time, when you have them on your blog. You start to follow each other’s lives, start to support each other, it really is quite nice.

The funny thing is, that my life, outside the blog, is all but glamorous. I work as a helper for a boy with autism and a young man who has other problems.

But really in many ways, I really love my life.

Yesterday I was a the swimming hall with my autism care, and a lot of other young children are there with all kinds of disabilities.

But there is a really nice atmosphere there. This older guy, who really has a warm heart and a lot of young helpers are trying to give these disabled children a good day in the swimming hall.

My name as Asger, and one of the young disabled youngsters he has the same name.

These youngsters are “the bad boys” of the swimming hall, which mostly is realized in showing waters in each others faces from time to time. But they really feel that they are something, and they just have a lot of fun.

So we met in the showers, and they found out, that was also called Asger as one of the other guys, they were just so happy and chose to invite me into their little groups of swimming hall rascals.

Just a little community, and we laughed and had some fun.

Simple things like that is really what drives my world. Being at part of a simple group. You know, you don’t have to be smart to have friends, or elevated. You can have friends in the most lowly of places, and that is just as giving and mesmerising as friends in other places.

It is not smart or cool by any stretch of the imagination, but it is real.

Laughs and community, that is what is really the matter. And you can find those just about anywhere. Even in the swimming hall, with all the disabled.

That was just hilarious.

G-d bless the will to find community, all of us

The most important thing, that we need to get right when we are talking a new constitution (with real amendments), is the balance of power within the EU.

The main reason for most of the fights and trouble that is within the EU, is the fight between the conservatives and the liberal.

The conservatives wants to keep the power in the nationstate the liberal are fine with a more distributed system of power.

BUT we need to think about this balance, to make it work, really.

The conservatives have their, or should I say our, bases of power. The military, the local business the royal houses and so on.

The liberal have their bases of power, or should I say ours, as well, the universities, the media and so on.

So in order to make the balance work, we have to bake into the system a power structure that reflects this reality.

If not, we will keep fighting over the powerstructure as we have been doing for quite a while.

The conservatives are rushing into the parliament, and it is much better to have some plans as to how we are going to tackle this inevitable confrontation, than trying to stop it.

We have to find some kind of meaningful compromise and find a lasting cooperation between left and right.

G-d bless the will to find peace within the system og the European Union.

Well, to get on with the war, and maybe actually find a way to end it, we have to try and analyze what the fronts are, and then how we dissolve those fronts.

If an operation is looming in Rafah, then Hamas does not really have a meaningful future in Gaza. Hamas can hide in the tunnels, but the operational level is gone, you can’t control a country from tunnels. You can wreak havoc, but to run a country requires institutions to work.

At the other hand, if the leaders of Hamas, does not have way out, they have no other option than to keep fighting. So we really need to give the leadership an out.

What we may be able to offer the leaders of Hamas, would be an amnesty to them, a place to live, in exchange for a change of government in Gaza. It is not about destroying Gaza or punishing Gaza, but about making some kind of viable constitution, that will make it really possible to live side by side. I know, that the scars and wounds run deep. But the continuation of the war just leads to more suffering for everybody.

G-d bless the will to find a way to finish this war, with the least amount of suffering for BOTH sides.

Princess, your smile lightens the world. It seems, that you have come to a place, where you feel that that is the right place?

I hope, that we actually meet, sometime in the future. Right now, it seems a bit in the future, and that is absolutely ok. We probably both have to kind of wrap our heads around this new beautiful, whatever it is.

But, I really look forward to take a stroll with you in one of the gardens of the castles here in Denmark. That is going to be amazing.

Have a nice day, and keep that infectious smile on your beautiful face.

G-d bless the will to be honest and supportive to those you like a lot.

Listen a democracy is about what the people want. What do the people of Israel want? They want this nightmare to end, and get the hostages home.

That is really what they want, and then get secure in the long run.

So if the current leadership of Israel wants to represent the people of Israel, that is the goal.

I do not judge the actions that has happened, I know that, it was done to get to those goals. But we should be careful not to loose the goals in the fog of war.

We need to get the hostages home, and we need to make a secure arrangement after that.

All that we do, should be to serve those goals.

We have just made a massive alliance, by some called the “renaissance alliance” I guess that is a high five to Rubicon.dk.

Again, this is not about fame or fortune, I really empathize with Israelis. I mean, the horror, the angst, the feelings are all out there.

But we will get there, don´t worry, just take it easy, and think about our priorities.

And another thing. The Palestinians are ALSO suffering. They are living in horrible conditions.

We have to remain humane in this war. We shouldn’t end up cynical and unfeeling.

We need to find a way to get those Israelis who are captured and suffer, home. That is the most important.

G-d bless the will to keep our aims clear.

Well, I am again sorry for not having the resources to support the EU, but I guess the work with the book still has not come to the part where I start discussing the structures of the federal level of the EU.

At the bottom of the whole discussion however lies the most important principle, the principle of balance between the federal and national level.

How does the structure of the federal level make that work?

There are a lot of proud nationalists in the EU, and for it to work, we have to make a case of respect for their ideas and needs.

We can’t just steamroll over their perspectives. We need to find the right balance. That balance, will have to be STRUCTURED into the architecture to make it work. I think, that that is really what we are going to discuss after the election.

We can just as well initiate the discussion. The national fronts of Europe will be strengthened in the election, and finding a way to make this new constellation work is the job essentially.

I have a lot of respect in these political parts after a lot of years in politics. So, I hope, that my voice can be a voice of dialogue and respect between the different parties.

Like in the Middle East, we need to find a compromise between right and left to make the whole system work.

It can be done, it has to be a renaissance WITHIN the EU, with that, which is the most beautiful tradition of Europe, the federal level will have the necessary history to fall back on.

All great changes in Europe is traditionally based on a renaissance, this is the same with the EU.

It has to be based on a renaissance.

G-d bless the will to be honest in action, and find the necessary compromises in the EU. Lets work for peace.

So Michelle Obama, Barack Obamas wonderful wife, just wrote a book, where she shares a lot of the wisdom and insight she has had along the way in a long life.

I know Michelle from the time when I wrote a lot to support Barack, as just a wonderful person. Barack is pretty lucky to have a girl like her. So to support Michelle, I hope you are ok with an advertisement for her new book; The light we carry. She has a lot to share.

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Princess, my wants are quite simple. I just want a happy life, a nice girl and a happy family.

Based on this happiness, I hope to be able share this happiness with everybody else. Make a better world.

In fact, it has actually been a while since anybody asked me what I want, so it is a difficult question for me I guess.

Make you happy?

G-d bless the will to make a happier world, where people share and are happy in their communities.

You know princess, I have been an artist my whole life. I started in school in theatre, then I was a dancer for many years, then a writer, a blogger and a newsman.

I even made a few music albums, I am a rockstar, essentially.

All these years of being on a stage, and trying to get my message over to the audience taught me one great lesson. You never know who your audience is.

When I started my career, or whatever you would call it as a philosopher. I had this idea, that I wanted to be a business philosopher. So I wrote a beautiful book about business philosophy. But then I went on the Camino, and I decided to go into politics. The Camino starts when you get home.

I didn’t really know who my audience was, but I realized, that the royal houses really loved my writings. A lot of liberals as well, the EU and many other. But especially the royals. I had absolutely no idea, that that would happen.

But you know, i am grateful for the audience I have. If you have fans, you should be grateful.

Your fans are the people from Spain. Some of them modern, but a lot of the very conservative.

That is fine, you have to find yourself within that frame, and find yourself in it.

But as a royal, you are forced to navigate that tightrope in the middle of the society. Not too much, not too little.

So you take all these wonderful, ancient institutions and you put your own spin on it. But it has to be very careful.

I have done a lot of work within green Change. I love nature, wandering around in nature. This has been very interesting for all the royals. Because it is a cool, modern thing, and the royals have a lot of estates, forests and so on. So that makes sense.

Prince Andrew in the UK, my king here in Denmark and so on. It is a middle leaning conservative position.

BUT you know, when King Frederik the X was crowned here in Denmark, he made a good show of it. He is really a sympathetic king. People just love him, BUT he had this Shamabala tie around his wrist, oh did people talk about that!

That was too much!

He is the defender of the Christian faith, and people hold him accountable.

I mean, he probably went on a tour to Tibet and got the wristband, that is ok. But he still needs to show fidelity to the Christian church. These institutions are connected to the house of royalty.

The Catholic church however is a whole other institution, it is immensely powerful, extremely deep and ancient.

The popes have this massive power.

You are their queen, their flower, their hope, the beautiful person at the top of the hierarchy. That is why they are so thrilled about our relationship. Because they hope, that I can sprinkle you with a bit of my glitter as well. Such an illustrious pair.

You have to serve your fans, make them happy to succeed.

At least that is my experience.

I don’t want to you to take me for the prospects of this. I want you to take me, because you like who I am.

So, this is not a sales pitch, it’s just to try and give you my experience, so maybe you can use it to manage your career, that has already begun.

G-d bless the will to be good in this world.

Princess, family is based on virtue, if it is to work on the long run.

When you are in a crisis, and you often are. That is just life. Then you have to think about, what is right. Not what is most convenient, the most easy, the evil choice, but what you would like other people to do to you.

I these days, people are much more on satisfying their own needs, and call for freedom for themselves, and don´t see what they can do to others, but what others can do for them.

But when you are in a crisis, and you feel sad, you have to have a shoulder to rest on. That shoulder will be there, if you were there for that shoulder yourself in another situation.

When you go through the things you go through now with your family, the easiest thing to do is to lock yourself up, and feel that the whole world is against you.

That is when you think about what is the right thing to do. Is it to start the fight, or is it to accept that which is against you with grace?

People judge you on your character, and if you stay with what you think is the right thing to do. More often than not, people will try to push you about to serve their ends. This is when it is important to stop and make up your mind on what YOU think is right. Pick the choice you find is the better choice, and then talk about it with your family.

In this way, a family can get through a crisis in a good way.

G-d bless the will to see family as the most important thing, and protect it from all the dangers around. Make it a happy family.

Ok, how do you win a war? You do it, by understanding your enemy, and understanding yourself, as the Chinese war strategist Sun Tzu, say.

So who are we? We are this illustrious culture, dating all the way back to Abraham. We have the most Nobel prize receivers compared to our size. We are rebellious and industrious. If there is a new interesting development somewhere in the world, you can be sure to see a Jew there.

But our less positive side is, that we can be a bit arrogant, calling non Jews Goy and things like that.

So who are the Iranians. The Iranians are much more like us, than we care to admit. They too come from this illustrious culture, they have given birth to heroes like Cyrus the great, and a lot of the things we take for granted, they invented.

In other words, they have a bit of the same grandiose understanding of themselves as we have, with good measure.

So what happens, when two cultures, who are a bit selfconcious meet at the battlefield? Well, the first thing that happens is, that we meter each other, to see who is the most illustrious.

If the other part does not recognize our supremacy, we will be offended and feel bad about it.

So in order for us to get the recognition we feel we deserve, we start pruning around and bumping our chest. If that does not work, we start shouting insults, to get attention. If that does not help, we start sending bombs on the other part. Get the idea?

A lot of the animosity of Iran is really just an attempt at being recognized as an equal.

And the truth is, they are equal in many ways. They invented the idea of goodness in Iran. They have had illustrious philosophers as we have.

So instead of just see this as a tit for tat, maybe we should try and understand them, so that we can live along side them in the future.

I get it, we are in a middle of a war, and we should not be naive.

But we should try and see it from their perspective as well, in order to win the war.

G-d bless the will to understand your opposition.

Well, I am sorry for not giving attention to the EU lately.

I have been occupied with the war in Israel and the princess of Spain. I am sorry.

But I am here, and I will try and support you in the process of finding a new way for the EU.

The election is going on, and we need to figure out a way to make changes after the election.

My new book “Rise of Democracy” that is my attempt at trying to think about all the details is coming along. When you write books, you stumble upon realizations along the way. Right now, I am kind of stuck on the details on how to try and make peace, which is an integral part of the EU state. The EU is working for peace, through supporting me, in Israel/Gaza.

After I have done the first part of the book, that is discussing virtues as justice, enlightenment, courage, love in a true renaissance view, I am going to philosophize on the possible structure of the federal level.

It will probably be a guiding book for the EU.

Add to this, the drama that is on the way with Israel and my role as a kind of a mediator and reconciliator, the scene is really set for something world Changing, and the EU is going to be a central part of that.

We are going to make a renaissance at a federal level in EU. That is going to be massive.

So don’t worry, we will get there. Actually as things seem to solidify more and more in a direction of peace in Israel, this will be a firing ramp for a massive discussion in the EU as to what this means to the EU.

If Jews and Muslims find peace, that is going to be really a good starting point for the EU.

Ok, there is still the war in Ukraine, but what we are doing is constructive and positive, so that is something very different.

It is going to really cool, is my feeling about this.

G-d bless the will to be honest and constructive and MAKE CHANGE.

Princes, true love never ends. If this is what I expect it to be, we are going to live a life of support, honesty and joy. There will be ups and downs, and a lot of challenges of cause. But the strength there is in having a good friend and true lover at your side, is something that will carry us both.

You are going to learn a lot from me, I think. Being a queen is not easy, you have to be able to play the political game, so that people like you and support you, and as a natural extension of this the institution of royalty, that is very important to Spain but also the Catholic Church. The connection between Church and Royalty is very important to the church. There are not a lot of catholic royalty left, so you mean a lot to them.

This connection will be strengthened by us, because I have a strong connection to them already, and have been supporting them for a long time.

So, I truly believe, that when things align, like rare occurrences of astronomy and stars setting themselves in exactly the right order, you never loose your love. It will be a strength and a strong base to stand on.

We are both very much into ethics and virtue, and this will carry us both, don’t worry.

G-d bless the will to find true happiness in this life.

Ok princess, I am sorry, it has been a little rough with the attack from Iran, and my role in this war. It is not easy.

But your support means the moon 🙂

G-d bless the will to do good and support those whom are really, really important.

Well that is Israel at its best. Using technology, skill, advanced strategy to win a day for peace essentially. The true win was the fact, that no-one was hurt.

That is the kind of behavior that will give us progress in this war.

And a lot of new allies.

Really well done, IAF.

G-d bless the will to come through this nightmare and we will prevail.

Princess, thanks for all your beautiful ideas and thoughts. I just feel, I dont know how can explain, but it really feels just right.

When prince Harry was really doing good for himself, he had this idea of seeing royalty as a platform for doing a lot of good in this world. He was just amazing, he arranged this sport event, and it just worked so well. He showed that royalty is more than just guardians of faith, a good example and so on. He put his own spin on it.

Maybe we could do that? Use this gift we have, to make a better world? It is not about what we can gain, we are really privileged, it is about what we can give, how we can support those who have less.

I mean, the potential just really boggles my mind. We can really do a lot of good things not just for Spain and Israel, but to the world as such.

Maybe I am just dreaming, but those dreams are really inspiring, and you gave that to me, thanks.

G-d bless the will to give good and support to people around you, so that they may have a better life.

Ok, now is the time to play the game at a level, that will actually make things better.

The most natural thing to do now, would be to retaliate, and loose some of the political capital we have gained.

But how would that serve our interest? Our interest being getting the hostages home, getting safe, and countering Iran.

It would not really work in any of the fields, countering Iran a little, but it would just be a tit for tat.

IF we save our political capital, and use it on our hostage deal instead, we would actually have used the political capital in something much more useful. That is, refrain from doing any harm on Iran.

If we do that, Iran would be named bad guy, the pressure on Hamas would rise, and we are closer at getting a deal.

If Iran attacks again, our political capital would have even gone higher. That is what you do in Jiu jitsu, use the strength of your enemy on themselves.

We would be seen as the wise partner, who has showed restraint, and Iran would be seen as a bad guy.

G-d bless the will to be smart about this, and get the hostages back.

Ok this is the situation in terms of development. First of all, the entire dynamics of the war has changed. Where Israel before were the bully, Israel has become the victim.

This means, that the sympathy of the war has shifted from Hamas to Israel.

It is too early to say what that means for the Gaza negotiations, but if Israel refrains from targeting Gaza anymore, the strength of the negotiation has turned into Israels favour.

There is a game of political capital beneath the whole war, that Israel lost a lot of, almost to the position of total destruction.

The thing is, the attack is scary, but it has given Israel a lot of political capital.

G-d bless the will to find respite in this war, the dynamics has changed, we may still find a reasonable solution.

Listen princess, everything will be absolutely ok. There is nothing that can really shake us.

Things are as they supposed to be, ok?

Now, I have country that is, more or less, falling a part, and I need to support them, to the best of my ability.

So, I may not be thinking about us for the next few days. Because my country really needs my undivided attention.

G-d bless the will to support those who you love and hold dear. We are going to get through this.

There is a lot of desperation and anger in Israel these days.

I get it, everything looks really uneasy and there seems to be no path out of this current situation.

That is true, there is very little chance to meet all goals; get the hostages back, make a stable situation in Gaza and so on.

And the pay back that Iran is mulling over killing a lot of its generals is really scary. Nuclear bombs anyone?

But contrary to most understanding in Israel, the leadership in Iran is in fact not evil. They are VERY conservative, but that is not the same as evil. They are in the understanding, that people around the world do not respect their worldview and understand who they are.

They are also very controlling, but they are in fact not evil.

So, we will survive, but it will be at a hard price.

I am not blaming anyone, we are in trouble. But we have to prepare for the fact, that the peace we are going to get will be a costly one.

G-d bless the will for Israel to survive this profound crisis, and we will.

Ok, just for the record. I have absolutely no interest in having any kind of power in Spain. I have plenty of work with Israel, and Denmark as it is already.

I will off cause give all the help I can, if you want. Use my international connections and so on. But ONLY if you have any kind of interest in it.

I have plenty of responsibility already, and I really don´t need anymore.

So this is just so you know, that I know that it could be a discussion. For most, they would probably think in this. But exactly my case, I have enough on my hands already, and have absolutely no interest in more work.

G-d bless the respect for family.

Listen princess, the depth of love is a path you can choose. You can be honest, serious about it, true or you can be swallowed up by envy, cheat and go with all the wrong things.

True love requires great sacrifice from both parts, it is not easy to push your own needs to a side, and give to the other. It is one of the hardest things to do.

But sacrifice and love are two sides of the same coin.

When you meet someone, that sees these things the same way, you find a heart of gold.

In these days, that is truly rare. Most people think just about themselves and not on other people. They go behind your back, and take instead of giving.

If you are a person that has a lot to give, you are more often than not the target of people who wants those things you have, so you become guarded and mistrustful.

My mom was a really amazing person. First she fell for my dad, that was this swanky fighter pilot. Revolutionary hero and all, but the differences in understanding the world was too much for them, so they fell apart.

After many years she finally found Jørgen. Actually it is a beautiful little story, that kind of taught me a lot both relationships.

My mom lived in this apartment building, and she went to this communal washery to wash her clothes. One day she met Jørgen in the washery, and they fell in love on the spot. He was a meteorologist and always told all these stories about his time in Greenland as a meteorologist. He loved wine, trams and rabbits. He was a bit of a geek to be honest.

But he carried my mom on his strong shoulders. All the years of distrust because she had had to take care of everything herself, he slowly washed away by being such a scout.

My mom hated releasing her control, and that could be pretty catastrophic, especially because the was REALLY bad at finding her way. So we always ended up wandering around in the forests of Sweden and just lost. She also loved wandering, so you can imagine the potential for getting lost somewhere.

Jørgen was a meterologist, which is essentially about looking at a lot of maps all the time, so he knew how to find his way. But instead of lecturing my mom, he let her get as much lost as she wanted, and then, with his strong hands put them both on the right the track again. He never pushed her, so she slowly regained trust.

I believe, that that is how love is made. By trust, giving each other space not lecturing.

Now my mom was a really wonderful and strong woman, so I can see why he gave her all that. But he was patient, and through his acceptance of all her issues, and believe me, there a lot of those issues, he carried her.

So if you ask me, how do you make these things work, it is through being a good person.

G-d bless the will to be a good person in relation to those you love.

Listen princess, the depth of love is a path you can choose. You can be honest, serious about it, true or you can be swallowed up by envy, cheat and go with all the wrong things.

True love requires great sacrifice from both parts, it is not easy to push your own needs to a side, and give to the other. It is one of the hardest things to do.

But sacrifice and love are two sides of the same coin.

When you meet someone, that sees these things the same way, you find a heart of gold.

In these days, that is truly rare. Most people think just about themselves and not on other people. They go behind your back, and take instead of giving.

If you are a person that has a lot to give, you are more often than not the target of people who wants those things you have, so you become guarded and mistrustful.

My mom was a really amazing person. First she fell for my dad, that was this swanky fighter pilot. Revolutionary hero and all, but the differences in understanding the world was too much for them, so they fell apart.

After many years she finally found Jørgen. Actually it is a beautiful little story, that kind of taught me a lot about relationships.

My mom lived in this apartment building, and she went to this communal washery to wash her clothes. One day she met Jørgen in the washery, and they fell in love on the spot. He was a meteorologist and always told all these stories about his time in Greenland as a meteorologist. He loved wine, trams and rabbits. He was a bit of a geek to be honest.

But he carried my mom on his strong shoulders. All the years of distrust because she had had to take care of everything herself, he slowly washed away by being such a scout.

My mom hated releasing her control, and that could be pretty catastrophic, especially because the was REALLY bad at finding her way. So we always ended up wandering around in the forests of Sweden and just lost. She also loved wandering, so you can imagine the potential for getting lost somewhere.

Jørgen was a meterologist, which is essentially about looking at a lot of maps all the time, so he knew how to find his way. But instead of lecturing my mom, he let her get as much lost as she wanted, and then, with his strong hands put them both on the right the track again. He never pushed her, so she slowly regained trust.

I believe, that that is how love is made. By trust, giving each other space not lecturing.

Now my mom was a really wonderful and strong woman, so I can see why he gave her all that. But he was patient, and through his acceptance of all her issues, and believe me, there a lot of those issues, he carried her.

So if you ask me, how do you make these things work, it is through being a good person.

G-d bless the will to be a good person in relation to those you love.

Dear Charles, I just want to thank you for the support you have given me lately.

You know, weird as it may sound, we are friends. It may seem a little strange when you think about the friendship between a king and a philosopher. But since I started writing for her majesty Queen Elisabeth the II, I have been a close friend.

I really liked Elisabeth, she was such a nice person. She was strict and had her clear limits. But she was also such a beautiful person.

Aristotle has this idea about friendship, he says that there are three modes of friendship. You can be friends for fun, for convenience or because you share certain values and virtues.

I have never asked anything back for all my years of service. I serve the English royal house, because I truly believe that it is an extremely important part of our world. But mostly because you are my friends.

So, you know, it is really wonderful to see, that we actually do have the same missions, and when I am in the gallows, you are the one to pull me out.

Thanks.

G-d bless the British royal family and house.

Princess, let’s meet?

I have a fairly good name within the Danish royal house, I have been dancing a bit of ballet, and I know some of the ballet dancers who are here in my home town Aalborg.

So if you want, we could make an arrangement through the Danish royal house. They are very nice. The former Queen Margrethe II is a wonderful person and the new king Frederik X is a really nice person. So they would probably be ok with arranging a meeting.

I hope we can keep this off the media, as long as possible. I am a journalist myself, so it is not that I don’t like newspapers, but we should protect our privacy for as long as possible. Don’t you think?

G-d bless the will to find a way, with this new thing, and may it all come to a place of happiness and joy 🙂

For whatever it is worth then yes.

I am the least perfect person there ever has been. But maybe, we can share a path, if you want.

Lets maybe try and make a world where people are happy, where things are in harmony for all around us.

If you wish to join me on that journey I would have a true friend and a wonderful person to share all those ups and downs.

You did something that happens very rarely for a speaker like me, you actually rendered me speechless.

And I guess that is a very good sign 🙂

G-d bless the will to be happy in each others company.

One of the things that really seemed to boost the election campaign of mr Joe Biden, was the FIRE of the state of the union speech.

We can learn from that, let’s put out some more fire. Do some more of that State of the Union speech energy.

Go out where people can hear us and show them, that we are still here, we have something that we care for. We are in the game.

Things are not perfect, but it is ok. We are finally getting our things to align in the right direction.

So, lets do that fight, lets go out there and spill the beans on what we want!

G-d bless the level of sympathy we can have, if we are strong enough to keep the fire!!!

Well it seems to me, that the guarantee and cooperation we have with the Americans after we have got much closer to them, is what will definitely stop the escalation of the regional war, that has the potential of getting Russia onboard.

Israel has, so far, been able to be neutral in the conflict between the US and Russia, and that is good for everybody.

Off cause we are with the US, absolutely. But antagonizing Russia is not our place and job. We should not contribute to the escalation of that conflict.

BUT, we should all and every time off cause show solidarity with the US, support them and make them a success.

That is why we are allies and friends, to keep each others backs.

Hopefully with a fully fledged support from the US at the threshold of an escalation in the war, we can be sure to keep Israel safe.

G-d bless the will to keep Israel safe and may we finally find some kind of peace, not least for the families of the hostages.

Listen princess, we have a choice in life, as to what we are supposed to do

Yes, as Sting sings, if you love someone, set them free. There is always free choice.

You have a relationship to G-d, and he will have plans for you. But it is totally up to you, to choose whether you follow his designs. And if you choose not to go down one path, he will find another path, that will fit you. There is no predestined path you HAVE to follow.

What you have to look out for, is honesty, people who are ready to give more than they take. Because if you do that, chances are, that you end up in a good place.

There is so much egoism these days. People are thinking about what is in it for them. All the time. More often than not, they think about their own gain.

That is not solidarity or community, that is a just a lonely path.

To find true friendship and companionship, you need to be able to share your ideas, resources, wealth in all its facets.

Then if you do this, you feel connected and happiness is more probable.

For the time being, I am working on a little sustainable farm as a helper for a young man with a disability. You know he has a tough life, he can barely move, but through the relations he has with his wonderful farmer family, he has this quality of life.

So we plant seeds in the ground, doing all kinds of sustainable projects. We sit in sun and drink coffee, have a good time. Drive around in his car. The countryside is so beautiful in the spring.

My point is, even when you been played the worst cards in life, you can still get a good life, if you are taking care of solidarity and community.

G-d bless the will to be free.

When we dream, we imagine things, and when these things seem actually to be realistic, we get happy.

Happy because our chances of having a good life is within reach.

I am happy to put a smile on a face, and to be honest my own life seems to be up to discussion with myself these days.

Going from a pretty normal middle class life that I am living right now, to move to the upper class, which would be the practical effect of our common plans or whatever they are, is a little daunting to be honest.

But it doesn’t really matter what class you are in, as long as you are happy. Happiness comes with a sound good life, with a strong family and purpose in life.

But, I mean, putting a smile on your face, seem like a pretty good starting point, and it honestly is pretty infectious.

G-d bless the will to be good, and have good intentions for a life in happiness.

When I got my Bar Mitzvah here in Denmark, my mom gave me a family heirloom.

It is a small gold coin, a lucky coin that my grandmother gave to my great grandmother, as she had to flee from nazi occupation here in Denmark. She boarded a fisher boat and fled to Sweden, where she was rescued and survived the holocaust.

This is a story about resilience but also about BEING REALISTIC. No one wants to leave their homes and travel over a dark sea in the night, avoiding the SS search parties. You only do it, because you HAVE to.

So how can we use this experience with all the other experiences, that Jews have here in Northern Europe?

We can use it, by shedding all pretense of support, pride, telling ourselves that we are the best and all that.

The truth is, that we are sitting on a cliff, and there is an abyss just beside us, that will swallow us, if we are not absolutely careful of our moves. One wrong move, and there is no more Israel, that our great grandfathers and grandmothers bought with their lives and suffering.

That is the truth.

We are, right now, not just gambling with the future of the hostages by wandering around, for over half a year, in one of the most dangerous zones of war in the world in terms of physical as well as political danger.

We are playing with the very existence of Israel.

We have lost so much political capital, that it is astounding, while we are wandering around in Gaza. Political capital is what you use, when you act somewhere.

Say that Israel went to war with Iran right now, with no political capital, that is help from friends around the world. What would happen?

Iran still has plenty of support all around the world?

You guessed it, we would be in a really dangerous situation. If we were opening a front to Iran while as we are bogged down in Gaza. What would that make of our strategic situation.

To be fair, we could win, with an astounding vision, and a real David movement. But to be honest, are we really at our best in terms of strategy and skill? Are we not just at the end of a really dangerous process of falling apart as a society?

I am not advising anything. I am trying to lay out the groundwork. I too support the Iranians and all their plight, it is horrible. But are we really willing to risk the only country in the world, where people like me, my family and all other Jews in the world are actually safe?

We have to be REALISTIC about what we are doing, and then find a way out of the quagmire.

G-d bless the will to find peace in the end of this crisis, we can if we are totally honest to ourselves and look at the risks as they are.

I have tried to give it a lot of thought, the house of Bourbon, the royal family of Spain.

Spain is an ancient realm, going all the way back to the Karthagenians that founded Iberia.

I may not be the one to really paint the picture of Spain, because I am a Dane, so there is a long way from Spain to Denmark.

But I think, that the royal family may be able to solidify and support its role not only as a representative of the Catholic Church, but also as a supporter of Spanish economy and industry?

In Denmark the business here is very loyal to the Crown, it goes way back, and our king here is really good at supporting the business here.

Finding the loyal Danes has been a good strategy for the Danish royal house. We have also been working a lot on green Change, that is forests and modern things as the energy production.

But especially forests have been something we have been working a lot with, and it has been a success.

We are currently working on a project to plant trees in the desert, if his eminence prince Zayeed is open for that. At least all my forester friends are all fires up to do that, and we have some gene workers working on trees that will grow in the desert and a lot of other wonderful ideas.

Anyway, Iberia is known for its ancient story and wonderful people. I have walked the Camino, and that gave me some kind of insight into the Spanish world.

Actually that was what started my career or what you would call it as a philosopher.

G-d bless the unity of Spain.

I think, that the issue of the European Union is quite obvious, we have to be REALISTIC IDEALISTIC.

The problems we face these days are, more or less, because of demoralization concerning the state. We need some more realism in the state, in the sense, that we need some kind of reevaluation of the virtues of the federal state. What does enlightenment really mean, what does justice mean.

Armed with these virtues, we can make the federal level much more stable and really worth for the citizens of Europe.

G-d bless the will to be good, and think good thoughts, and then act with good acts.

Well, again sorry for my personal affairs here on the blog, but I mean, maybe the things that I share here on my blog are kind of all personal affairs, so romantic poetry is also kind of pretty nice on the blog.

Poetry is about finding dreams, when it comes to romance. You paint a beautiful picture of your life, and give yourself an attempt at getting on with your positive parts of life.

You give yourself goals and imagine that maybe in the future there can be this happy circumstance or other.

That is dreams. They are precious and something that can give you so much.

When you meet someone, that you can dream WITH the potential for your life is so much sweeter.

But please, can we maybe take these reflections to a more private space?

I know, that they may be sweet to read about, but we are in the middle of a war, and I guess, these things gets in the way for the reconciliation and dialogue.

Write me on:

asger@rubicon.dk, asgertrierengberg@gmail.com, asgertrierengberg@protonmail.com

If I dont respond immediately, wait and then try maybe at another route?

G-d bless the will to find truth in what you do.

Ok, so these are my reflections on love. I know, that these reflections may seem a little weird in the middle of a war. But somehow the tide brought me these reflections, and I hope that you are ok with me sharing these ideas in this difficult time.

Plato has this idea about love, he has this amazing story that were inspired by the story of the winged horse Pegasus and his rider Bellerophon.

He said that once mankind were like round wheels. It may sound a little strange, but these round wheels became so powerful, that they fought with the g-ds in their hubris.

So the g-ds punished these wheels and cut them in two. So each side now has two arms and two legs.

But when they are born, they miss their other half. So they go searching for that other half the rest of their lifes, to be able to feel complete. Thereby absolving mankind for their hubris.

This is why some of us search for most of our lives, to find that mirror of ourselves, and when we find that mirror. Being with them makes us complete.

Maybe this is why we are looking at these things in a way now, that we may actually find someone who will make us complete?

G-d bless the will to be honest in action, and beautiful in thought.

Ok, this is my idea about the current development of Israel. First of all, you all need to take a deep breath, and assess the situation.

We need to get away from responding to all crisis with violence.

Violence is the effect of a diplomatic process gone wrong. So, we need to take the diplomatic process in as well.

Right now, we a so jittery, that we are kind of shooting right and left.

Take a deep breath, and think about our long term goals. Our long term goals is to get the hostages back, and secure Israel.

It is a simple as that. If we stir up a massive regional war, those goals are getting further and further away.

We can shift gears, by targeting the tunnels instead of the last remanning brigades in Gaza. That is a deescalation.

We need to turn the progression away from more conflict to less conflict.

Ok, we shouldn’t be naive, but we should definitely not raise the prospect of war. We should, by all means, make the possibility of war smaller.

G-d bless the will to win this war, with the least amount of death and suffering for everybody.

Well, when I was a little boy, I didn’t have a lot of options. I grew up in a very poor area, and for a small intellectual child like me, there wasn’t much to do around me.

There were a few kids, that I had a good relationship with. But they were like diamonds in a coalmine.

So, I went to the library in the area that I grew up in, and started reading books. One book after another. The books became my friends in a sense, and they tought me, that there is a wider world out there, apart from my own reality.

Good books in general, is about valor, standing up for good in this world and being a knight of some kind.

So I decided to be a knight. I may not make much sense in the modern world of Tic Toc and modernity. But I didn’t really relate to all the rest that was around me anyway, so the tales of ladies and the valiant knight really resonated with me.

Since then, I have always dreamed of finding a princess like those in the books. Beautiful, respectful, with virtue. I have searched a lot, but finding a heart of gold is not easy these days.

After many years of trying to find a way with my dreams of knighthood and being a valiant person. Finally, there seems to a chance to find a REAL princess.

Who would have thought?

G-d bless the will to be what you are, despite the world that seems to not make much sense.

Now, there are different answers to the current difficulties of Israel.

Either there is the answer of colonialism, or there is the answer of total appeasement.

At the Oslo accord we tried the appeasement, now we have tried the colonialism.

Neither has been of any success for us. The Oslo accord made Israel weak, the colonialism makes us the anathema to the world.

So what do we do?

There is a third way, that I have tried, when I was at the helm of the process under the Arab Spring with Barack Obama.

What was that?

It was PLAYING the game, at the highest level possible. Finding ultimate solutions to extremely difficult problems, leaving the rest of the Middle East amazed at the good ideas, that really had the potential to make peace, through skill and wisdom.

A process like that does not take any obvious path, but goes through the fog, thinking about each step in an innovative yet experienced way.

That was what won us all the years of peace after the Arab spring.

The reason why we are in this difficult situation, is because the Danish authorities tried to put me out of commission and the structures that was in place after the Arab spring was being neutralized.

BUT I am still here, and able and willing to work on the issues, so we CAN if we want, and I underscore, that it is not my choice but the choice of the Israelis and Jews in general, find new ways, innovate in the realm of politics.

It has worked before, and it can work again.

G-d bless the peace we can find, if we try again.

Ok, this is the way things are looking from my angle.

First of all, things are turning around. Slowly but surely. My own progress is interlinked with Israel in a very deeply both dangerous as well as very, very spiritual way. As I get my bearings, Israel is skitting away from the abyss.

So there are a lot of things that is happening simultaneously. I have a new job, that I like. So my economy is secured, it is actually the communists who are taking care of me. The Bernie crowd! You know, thanks guys, it is deeply appreciated. Without you, I would have been even darker into the issues that I have. But you came through, as the EU. Imagine that.

At the same time, I get all these propositions for potential queens of Israel. If this goes on, I will probably be crowned king of Israel. So the other royal houses are talking internally about the potential queen.

To be honest, living in a very dangerous situation, these considerations are not exactly on the top of my mind. But I mean, one of these propositions is kind of a dream come through. Beautiful, with so much style. For a desert rat like me, who would have thought.

But please, I am more than willing to meet all ideas. You just have to remember, that I am in a middle of a tough and serious fight with the ones who are not into having a massive strengthening of spirituality of the good kind a Jewish king would mean. Evil is all in the ropes, they are circling around me like rabid dogs.

Add to this, the main political advesary, the current government of Denmark, is all in the ropes as well. They are tanking big time, and they will fall in the very foreseeable future.

That will get some of the heat off my shoulders. But MOSSAD needs to start doing their jobs and protect me. I mean, what are we paying you for, sitting in offices and drinking coffee?

Get out there and do your job.

So, things are turning around, but it is not easy.

Getting a queen of the caliber the royal houses are plotting for Israel. That would be amazing. Hands down.

G-d bless the will to be good and finally find peace in the Middle East.

Ok, this is a difficult thing to see, if you want to make peace. But, if we start focusing on the destruction of the tunnels of Gaza, although it will be a bit winded. We stop, in practice the killing.

When and if we get a peace deal, then we can stop the destruction. Hamas knows very well, that the tunnels are their true power. Without the tunnels, they are not really an effective fighting force anymore.

This will then make Hamas willing to make a peace deal. How this is structured we will have to see, but making the deal more probable as we destroy the tunnels, is a pretty straightforward strategy. We destroy something that no one needs anyway, if they are not in the business of killing. So there will be no civilian casualties, the refugee situation can be mended while as we aim at the underground threat and so on and so forth. To be fair, I have no idea how big the system is. But it should be weak to punctual destruction. If we sever the connection from north to south, then we are able to stop the flow and so on.

Effectively bringing an end to the war without damaging anyone.

BUT and this is very important. The peace deal we offer Hamas should be fair. We should not press on with vengeance. If we give them a fair deal, they will have less motive to continue the war. Fairness is always the most important in post war reconciliation.

It is not about revenge, it is about making a safe environment for Israel and getting the hostages back.

G-d bless the will to resurrect the peace negotiations.

Ok, we need to change the dynamics of the Gaza war. Mr. Churchill won, and made victory possible for the Brits. But do we have any idea, how he actually made those victories. First of all, he was a very courageous leader. At D day, he wanted to attend as a Marlborough (his forefather) at the front. He didn’t sit at the back, he fought at the front.

Secondly, he was a very INVENTIVE leader of the Brit’s, he invented the tank as a tool to change the trench warfare that was the main way to fight in the First World War. The idea was to make boats on land. A tank is really a small boat, as envisioned by Churchill.

So he was brave and he was inventive.

If we look at the current war I Gaza, what is really the problem. Well the problem is, that we are fighting in on a terrain that is not to our favor. What would Churchill do? He would, if I were him, change the terrain.

As of now the tunnels beneath Gaza is really the thing that is keeping Hamas alive. We can fight them in one end of Gaza, and they will just be wander to the other end.

It won the Vietnamese their war, and it will probably win the Gazans their war, if we do not start to be inventive.

In Vietnam the only response the Americans had to the tunnel warfare was to bomb the surface. Not inventive. So they lost.

What would be INVENTIVE in Gaza? Find ways to disrupt the tunnels. Use wired drones to boobytrap the tunnels. That would be inventive. Or use radar equipment to find the tunnels from above, drill down the to the tunnel and collapse it. That would be pretty easy.

If we focus on disrupting the tunnels, we will take away the only real edge Hamas has. That would stop the killing, and bring the end of the war much closer.

That would be what Churchill would have done. He had skill, intelligence and bravery.

G-d bless the will the change tactics and bring an end to this war. Let’s find peace again.

There is a new proposition on the table regarding the post structure of the reality of Gaza. The US has, together with our Arab partners, proposed a peace keeping force that encompasses the Arab alliance and the US.

There are good and bad things about the deal. The good thing is, that is shows an openness of the US and Arab allies to still work with us. The bad thing is, that with such a deal we give away a lot of the control we have gained in Gaza, at a great cost.

My opinion on the deal is, show respect for it. Enter a serious and honest negotiation, and be honest about our priorities that are essentially a secure border between Israel and Gaza. If the deal, in a probable perspective, can guarantee that outcome, we should at least try and find some kind of compromise. We really need our allies after this war, and therefor we need to show them due respect. They are actually trying to help us.

G-d bless the will to show friendship to our allies.

Well, we are looking right down the abyss. If we go much further down the very destructive path, we will be cast over the rim, and Israel will be gone. That is the hard truth. I am not saying this to scare anyone, it is the truth to use to make a turn around in terms of progression in the conflict.

The direction we have gone until now has put us at the rim of the abyss. That is the truth.

But the good news is, we seem to be aware of it, and can then act to avoid the problems.

The issue is this. The constant banging on the war drums does not do us any good, we end up being seen as warmongers. People are not that into more war these days. They RESPECT the fact, that we want our hostages back, and the need of security. But this is not the Second World War, this is an armed state against a resistance movement. Ok Hamas has ideas, that we do not accept, but that still not changes the fact that we are the big guy, and they are the little guy. That is just not how Jews fight.

I am sorry, and again this is not to put any negative blame on the IDF. The IDF is doing amazingly. It is to be clear about what the frame around the war is.

We can still make some kind of positive outcome out of this issue. We do it, by ramping up the diplomatic process much more, and much more earnestly. If we are seen as the part, that is trying, with all we have to find a peaceful and serious end to the war. We will, after a long time, turn the perception of the two sides.

That is more or less, the only advice I can give right now, and we should be realistic about our current situation, one more step, and it is over the rim.

G-d bless the will to survive.

Knowledge is a fickle mistress. She comes and goes, and more often than not, she leaves way for her evil sister ignorance.

We people are prone to follow ignorance, we love to do it. Put up the simple, easy answers to life. We fight for something that seems right, because of its simplicity and then we are seduced by ignorance.

To stay on the path of wisdom and truth, one needs to have discipline and be strong in one’s convictions. It is not easy to face the hard, barren, horrible truth that more often than not is right in front of us. But if we do not marry truth and are honest to ourselves, we are forfeit. That is the truth. Only if we have the will to be honest and look truth in its eyes, are we able to survive this world, ESPECIALLY when we are in crisis.

In crisis we often grasp at straws of simple logic and follow that, but the truth is, that simple logic will not save us. Only the ability to look upon truth in all its complexity will give us the ability to survive.

I have just survived a crisis. It was incredibly hard to see the truths of my own crisis. But because I am a bit of a prophet, these truths are hard smashed in my face all the time. I can’t not see these truths.

So, this is essentially my message to all my readers. Be watchful for false prophets who come with simple truths, it is better to look for those who will tell you how the world is, in honesty, instead of those who sugar coat the reality and gives you easy ways out. There are no easy way out, all ways out of a crisis is painful, hard, and unforgiving. But at the end of the day, you do not fight for yourself, you fight to keep those who you love safe of harm. Drag them out of the mud, those who are hugging your legs.

If you look at their needs, you do not save them by seeing the simple truths, you save them by being hard on yourself, and see how the world is, in all its complexity and horror.

Only then can you steer clear of all the pitfalls of life.

G-d bless the will to be honest about the situation you are in, to shield those who are most important, and that is not your own ego, but your children, and your children’s children. G-d bless the will to survive.

Well, I am working on my book to try support a more stable and future proof European Union. It is a really interesting job, and hopefully something, that can make a better and more stable world.

When you work as a philosopher, to try and further the development of the world. You always end up with ethics. There is the discussion between too little and too much. The discussion of freedom in relation to responsibility and the way of the state to keep it all sound.

I know, that the European Union is very bureaucratic, that is true. But at the other hand, it also really stand up for those rules. They are really into not bending rules to get what you want.

That attitude may be cumbersome, but it is very important, that the rules are NOT bend in this world.

Really this is what it comes down to, if we want a spiritually and materially sound Europe. Not bending the rules.

That means, not persecuting journalists, and not abusing power that you may have to further your own selfish needs.

If the European Union become a bulwark against the innate motives of those who want to enrich themselves at the expense of those who have very little. Then actually the Union has a raison d´etre. At least this is where I am with my ideas and discussion with myself these days. To keep the flame alight. The flame of humanism and enlightenment.

G-d bless the will to be sincere in the ways of the light and humanism.

Well these are my Purim reflections. I know, that mr. Benyamin Netanyahu has vowed to fight on to the last bullit. And, honestly, I am a supporter of mr. Netanyahu. He has had a lot of heat, that he has not deserved. His is, by all means, the best leader we have right now.

He has the skill, the mindset, he is tough, strong and all we need right now. Also, he is the leader of the right coalition.

So this is not a criticism towards mr. Netanyahu. The only thing that I can criticise him for, a little, was that he did not push Mossad to help me. But that is not easy. Apart from that, he has tried, with all his might, to keep the country a float and working. In this crisis, he has, as a brilliant politician kept the unity of the country, albeit at a great cost for himself.

People say, that he drags out the war. He is not the one who are keeping the pressure, over and over. He reigns over a COALITION that is trying to get to the best outcome.

So, I support mr. Netanyahu.

If he wants to go to the last bullit, I am behind him.

But, and you probably guessed, that there was a but coming. We need to see ourselves as a powerful nation, with a vast arsenal of weapons, not as rebels.

We have survived as rebels since the last nation of Israel fell. But remember what the prophets said when Israel fell. Israel is supposed to be a tool of peace, light upon the nations and so on.

What was it, that the ancient prophets were trying to convey to our time?

Well, it is pretty obvious; we need to able to shift from rebel mode to state mode. State mode is not a rebel process.

I am a rebel, and I have lived by the mechanisms of that way for many years now. Brilliant, arduous, super skilled fight against foes 100.000 times my own size. I have managed to survive, what most other people would have been killed by. Most of my friends are dead.

BUT, I survive, so I know what it is to be a rebel.

BUT, Israel is not a rebel, it is a country, that needs diplomatic relations to those countries around to survive. That is what the ancient prophets were trying to convey to the next Israel. They had a lot of experience with that. Essentially they put us on a path of rebel hood, until the day we were able to make another state. That day, we should shift gear, and do what the old prophets were used to; work with diplomacy and skill to make a stable state.

That is how states work, all over the world. It may be tiring and annoying that you cannot just fight, but you have to be able to shift gear from rebel mode to state mode, if you are really into making Israel a stable state in the long run. If you keep fighting to the death, at every challenge, you may win honor, but Israel will have a very little chance at survival.

G-d bless the wisdom, that we may all get from understanding the ancient prophets. May Israel live forever.

Ok, these are my further reflections on control of you, through your emotions.

Anger is a powerful feeling, and it can control you, if you are not careful.

If you are controlled by your anger, then those who control your anger controls you.

Fear is a powerful motivator as well. The same goes with honor and money.

If people want to control you, they have options to do that, through your needs and emotions.

But, there is a defense against this, and that is your character. The strength of your convictions and virtues. If you are 100% focused of the task at hand, and are not swayed by what other people may think, you can do what is to your OWN good.

Take money. Money corrupts, but you do need money to survive. Right now, I have almost no money, because of the mini pogrom I have been through. So the lure of money is pretty obvious. But if I were bought, then my integrity would be at question, and then I would not be able to be a part of the international discussion. So, I have to be cool about the money need I have, and make do with what I have. Dont get me wrong, I would love to make money on what I do. But it has to be legitimate sources of income.

If I am payed by the European Union to make a reflection on how the European Union may work better, and it is open and goes through the proper channels. Then that is fine, that is a good job.

But if I am payed to work with a specific partner in the world, that is bribery.

The same goes for the conflict in Gaza. There is nothing wrong in the fight itself, but we need to be absolutely clear about our motivation.

So, we need to think about what we want to accomplish, and be straight about that, to get to our objectives.

G-d bless the clear head, we have to have in this conflict, and may we reach out true objectives, and may we find solace after this war.