Israel is much safer now than a few years back, Egypt is really pro Israel, Iran wants to make peace, even Saudi Arabia is positive towards Israel. How has this come to be?

I will not diminish the epic work done by mr. Netanyahu. He has protected his people against innumerable enemies, and successfully so. IDF as well, professionally and carefully.

At the other hand, Israel has been bestowed with one of the most illustrious liberal leaders of the time mr. Peres. His leadership will also be legendary.

In a way, this has been the blessing of Israel; balance between strength and forgiveness, between dialogue and defense.

This is how nature works. On one hand there is the material world, where the strong rules the weak and there is no justice, on the other hand there is the spiritual world where we are all connected.

Politics is about finding that difficult balance. I know how difficult it is. I have tried to have my mother taken away, having my daughter in harms way. In the face of these difficulties, insisting on the path of dialogue and peace is extremely difficult. Sometimes we have to fight, but if we forget that our true mission is a mission of peace we loose. This task is almost inhuman, but it is these stakes that are put up in front of us.
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We often fight with the ones we love the most; our children, our parents our wifes, and in a way, marriage or family is a micro version of the nations. It is basically the same mechanisms that work in the family as in the nations.

When we are unsatisfied with something in our families, it usually has something to do with a need that is not met. The need for security, food, space, caring or attention. This makes us frustrated, and we react by getting upset and start blaming our loved ones for this lack.

Love in this situation, is to understand the needs of our loved ones, and try to fulfill them. And love is also to understand that all our needs are not easily fulfilled, and therefore accept that our needs will have to wait sometimes.

What we aim for in family as well as in nations, is the same; peace. Where we are living under the same roof in tranquility and happiness. This we will only realize however, if we understand how the family functions, it functions by understanding, and by our solidarity. If we reach out from beyond our materialistic prisons and start sharing what we have with the persons we love.

G-d bless the will to share.

To define the advent of a good life, one has to understand how the world is really constructed. Many, today, see religion as a prehistoric remnant from the times before the dinosaurs roamed the earth. I beg you to see, that it is not like this, it is the other way around. Religion, or metaphysics, has the answers that many other philosophies do not have.

How may we deduce this truth? First of all, we need to understand the world as it is. The world is stretched out between the material world and the spiritual world. I have touched upon this subject before, but to really understand the interrelationship between the two spheres, we need to focus on the mechanisms of each realm. The material realm is all about fighting and loneliness. We are each imprisoned in our bodies, and we are not easily able to cross the boundary, that our body defines. If we never reach for spirit we are trapped in vicious circle of violence and lust. We are in a world where the strong rules the weak, and justice is not present.

At the other hand, the spiritual realm is all love and complete immersion in the community of all living. Here we are never lonely, and always in connection with everybody else.
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The Middle East is in a true danger of refalling Into chaos. ISIS, or the collaborator of Al-Queda, have gained power in the wake of the destruction of the Muslim brotherhood. What did not succeed in Egypt is retried in and around Iraq and Syria. This new country would be an enemy of almost all other forces in the the world. So itnaturally creates a lot of fuss, and will be met with extreme political as well and physical opposition.

Well, I do not like Al-Queda, and I certainly do not like the Muslim brotherhood, they do not understand the true nature of spirit, and the inter fighting as the only way is the way of Satan There is no doubt about that, on the other hand these people are desperate. So I understand their actions in a the light of selfpreservation.

If you challenge the world, and fallaciously believe, that you can conquer all, and you really try this. You are both arrogant and absolutely unrealistic. All that has been accomplished by the grand designs of the Muslim Brotherhood is bad rep. for Muslims in the world, total destruction of all their many branches, and a legacy that will carry itself many years into the future.

You have to be humble, and help other people to survive and prosper. Because when we came from spirit, we were all one.

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Culture often, unconsciously reflect the conflicts of society, if the discussions are difficult, art has to be very subtle to touch upon the conflicts. I love Harry Potter, call it the identification with the courageous nerd with naught but magic at his disposal. Call it the veneration for the mystical parts of life. I do not know, but yet, I think I have had a clue. What is it really Harry Potter is about? Is it the English school system? Yes to some extent, but the English school system is just a part of the score. Is it the psychological development of young people? Again this is just a side plot. No the real conflict, is the creeping decay, of evil entering, unseen and extremely difficult to fight. How the good guys; the ancient lore and wisdom of the great and wise scholars are put against terror and intelligent lurking deceit.

It is about the stakes, how we are fighting a battle with a learning child at one side, and an ancient devil at the other side. The odds are definitely not in the favor of the good side. How the good knights and fairies are falling away as the young hero faces one standoff after the other.

It is about the core of England, fighting this vicious fight, not just in fiction, but in life. The corruption that seeps in everywhere, the fatigue. Evil creeping in over the boundaries. The stakes that are in favor of evil, and not in favor of good.

The same players are basically fighting in real life, and let me give you an example. Who are really the representatives creeping over the borders? It is the EU administration, that does not love England, but does all it can to ruin it, by deceit. This feeling is recognized by all, but it is difficult to truly define, because it is so elusive. Then there are many in England, who do not respect the law, and do terrible, terrible things. These are also the handmaidens of evil; honour killings, Islamists, thieves and robbers. It is not about race, but not to realize the depth of trouble England is in right now, would be not to recognize the challenges England is in.

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There are some who discuss the possibility of the current PM of Denmark Ms. Helle Thorning Schmidt as a leading figure in the European Union.

I strongly advice Ms. Merkel and David Cameron not to use her. In Israel she is known for at very violent procedure in connection with the handling of little Rakel. That is jewish persecution. She is extremely unpopular, and in fact extremely unskilled when it comes to leadership.

I know that Mr. Martin Schulz is not that popular in Germany among conservatives, but at least he is not a antisemite, and he is extremely skilled. He is also a Socialdemocrat as Helle Thorning.

The worst problem with Helle Thorning however, is the problem that she always makes a mess of herself when she is in international arenas, as she did when she made the impromptu “selfie picture” with David Cameron and Barack Obama.

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When I was in England the first time, I was around thirteen. It was at the height of the punk movement, so I was open mouthed looking at strange men with mohawks and brutal Dr. Martens boots.

Now, having a thing for Anglo Saxon writers at large; Joseph Conrad, sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Scott, and having the feeling that I have a special connection with England. I am happy to have been invited to a symposium in Oxford.

You know, I have always liked the university feeling or spirit, the spartan ethics, the mass, where all students convene with the teachers. The chivalry and the feeling that behind the veils, a deeper understanding of things are apparent.

My contribution to the symposium, will revolve around the understanding of G-d. What G-d is, how we may understand our world in his image, the process of birth and dying. The solidarity of man, and why we as people are willing, nay forced to recognize the birth of our souls as a token of G-d.

I look forward to come to Oxford!

Link to internet page of Symposium: http://www.oxfordsymposiumonreligiousstudies.com

There are many great pharaohs. Horemheb, Sneferu, Ayo. All great men in their own rights, some blazing heroes, some just kings, some benevolent humanists. But they all had one thing in common; they loved Egypt.

How the new president, Mr. Al-Sisi will conduct his presidentship will be up to him, there are truly a vast array of ideal to put forth.

There is however one thing that is vital to modernize the enormous country; faith. Faith in Egypt, faith in the beautiful Twolands, and a slow rebuilding of the fort of faith.

Both the Copts and well as Al-Azhar have fortuitously supported a strong and just state. The experimentation of The Muslim Brotherhood would have ruined the country and destroyed all the beautiful mansions of the ancients. This has been avoided.

Monotheism was born in Egypt, Moses was an Egyptian prince, let it be, that his spirit will support and strengthen his children.

Abraham was a son of Mesopotamia, but also he should support and strengthen Egypt. Because he was a mathematician, a philosopher and a astrologer. Just as a vast part of Egyptian pharaohs have been.

It is about combining new with old, supporting a vibrant and industrial progress with a deep reverence for the past.

This done, Egypt will hopefully rise again. It will be tremendously difficult, the challenges are immense, but if Egyptians remember who they are, and what they were, one day they can overcome the all the setbacks she has seen for two thousand years.

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For too long have the believers in G-d put the true nature of their calling aside, and have been absorbed by the nature of the material world. Theft, greed, disregard of the true nature of spirit has prevailed. G-ds name have been, often, misused by his followers to gain something in the material world.

This is, to my mind, a grave mistake, we cannot let us be absorbed by materialism in the course of our actions, we cannot not see our neighbors as they are; someone who are also just persons.

We can choose to live and let go, or we can chose to try reach over the aisle, and understand.

In each our versions of the one true G-d, there are enigmas we have to face to overcome the barrier between ourselves and G-d. These barriers are our own isolation when it comes to community. We do not see our fellowmen as they are, we see only our own barriers.

Now, I implore all, who attend the meeting in the Vatican, to shed the schackles of our physical being, and understand, no, fight for the possibility to lift the ban of Sodom and Gomorra, do not follow the path of unjust, of the egoistic, of Satan.

Be a member and a fellowman, in order to put aside our differences and pray for peace.

May G-d bless the one true understanding of our world, spiritual as well and physical.

There is an ongoing debate in Europe, in USA, in Russia about the roots of us all. This discussion is stigmatized, and if you try your luck at it, often people start to yell, call you a racist and what is worse. This spills into the political sphere, where the new pro nationalist parties are often stigmatized and vilified, to the extent that people either kill as in Breiviks case or are killed as in Theo van Goghs case.

What is really happening, and why are we, as cultures forced to understand and strengthen this development, but in a manner that it actually does some good, and does not end up in another bloody war?

Let me give you an example that most liberals really understand well, and will, hands down, really like.

My beautiful wife has worked a long time with indeginous people in South America, in Guatemala to be precise. We have actually just had a visit by one of her Indian friends from Guatemala, who stayed with us for a week. Sweet person indeed.

The problem with the indeginous people in South America as well as in Northern America is joblessness, too much drinking, and broken families. Why? Because they have lost their faith. So Maria, she goes there and tries to strengthen their culture and support their fight when it comes to legal rights.

My wife has this father, he is a true hippie, with a great beard and he works with kids. For a long time his prime hobby was riding on a one wheeled bike, and teaching all the kids to ride one one wheeled bikers as well.

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The European elections have come to a conclusion, the Ukraine crisis have come to a conclusion and the world has truly changed.

The implications will not be felt right now, but a few years up ahead we will truly bear witness to change.

What is really the result of these occurrences. First of all, we did manage to keep peace in Europe in the face of a tremendous crisis. This will be a great victory for mr. Barack Obama. Diplomacy does work after all. You could argue that peace we have made was a result of economic sanctions, but really Russia are fully capable of handling its own affairs and can just turn to China. No, it was because all could see the reason in not engaging in a fully fledged conflict. After all, we are the same culture, and if we start fighting each other, all will lose.

In the long run, trust has actually been gained, it may seem a little far fetched, but right now Russia has actually gained a lot of trust in Europe, perhaps not officially, but deep down, unconsciously, Europeans recognizes, that Russia has become Russia again, and we can start to get along. There will off cause be rivalries, and Russia is the leader of the conservative spring, so it will be back to reclaim glory.

But it will be a peaceful contest, and not a contest with armed conflict.

The European culture is having a rebound, brought forth by Russia.

The European Union is having serious trouble. Not only economically but also in regards to trust by the public. The EU elite might continue business as usual, but it simply cannot contain the anger, the frustration and the rebellion it meets in the Northern Europe.
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There is still a lot of war going on in Ukraine, especially in the East, in the two rebel regions Lugansk and Donetsk. For whatever it is worth, I wholeheartedly condemn it. It is the right of all people to choose themselves which nation they belong. Otherwise it is tyranny.

I understand the plight and the ambition of Ukraine, and I support it as well. But having seen trouble does not give you the right to make the same trouble to someone else.

As we Jews, we have always been persecuted, but this does not give us the right to be persecutors, on the contrary we should be better than that.

Ukraine is a warn torn country, it has always been the gateway between east and west, so war is deeply ingrained in the DNA of the Kievan Rus. But why fight ourselves, we are the same people, be Kievan Rus or just Russians. It does not make any sense to me.
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The European conservatives are in a bit of a cat fight. Perhaps we can look at it this way; it is not about who we wish to be, but about what we are.

Being a conservative these days are the same as a constant witch hunt. Then we are accused of this, then we are accused of that. What really matters is; what we are.

Conservatives carry a tainted legacy. Somehow conservatives ended up as the heirs to Hitler and his national socialism.

There are many colors of nationalism, you could support this or that version of it. For me, supporting national socialism is like chopping a hand of myself. After all, I am a jew.

So what are the mechanics, and how can we avoid them, or even grow stronger in this shadow that someone else threw over us.
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I have had a long time writing, not making a single penny. This was ok, especially when I was alone and did not have a responsability for my little family. But things change, and the constant pressure by the state, using my diluted economical state, have made me decide taking a small fee for the reading here on rubicon. After all, all the pieces you read are made from bottom up, no copying, no reference, just fresh and new texts every time something is written.

And yet one thing is to earn a living on what you love to do, another thing is to live in indulgence. This is not the aim of this blog, so in two ways I try to circumvent this challenge. Firstly, all who are not that well off, can get acces for free, secondly, all income above a normal salary of a teacher here in Denmark, is given to hospital building with the order of the knights hospitaliers. Hopefully we can amass a lot of funds, to help people who are ravaged by war.

I hope you forgive me for this action, I know a lot of you do not like to pay for text here on the net. But writers need to live too.

I bless all who are willing to give to a noble cause.

The trip to Jerusalem has been quite a succes so far. But one mistake was done, as I see it; getting involved in politics. The fight between the Palestinians and the Jews is not a religious conflict, it is a political conflict. If we get embroiled in this, we lose the goal we strive for; unity between the three religions.

I do not endorse settlers I do not endorse the endless and meaningless war between Hamas and Israel. These things are solely acts of the material world.

As I see it, the bridge is not over territorial divides but over religious divides.

The bridge is slowly crafted, through the goodwill of the religious leaders, peace is a religious duty, a well as a boon of mankind.
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We see a terrifying increase in antisemitic attacks in Europe. There are the street thugs, mostly Islamists. Or rather immigrants who really hate Jews. Then there is the state sponsored terror, as in Denmark, where the system and the secret police tries to limit the voice of those who support the Jews fight for a peaceful life.

Both threats are dangerous and as such only minor incidents here and there, some in Malmoe, now the incident in Brussels, then there were the incident in France. All in all the net result of a antijewish/anti Israel policy over the last forty years. If you settle Palestinians in Odense, they will continue fighting Jews, both as Hamas as well as Fatah.

What do we do? We speak up, we refuse to let the happenings just happen, we refuse just to sit by and accept that the development seems to move slowly into another antisemitic slur.

I believe my campaigning against the state sponsored anti Judaism here in Denmark has given results. It really shook up the secret service, and the fact that there are strings all the way into the heart of the EU really has shaken some politicians and bureaucrats. After all, EU is supposed to be a peace project to solve the crisis of the Second World War, if the heirs to this project starts persecuting Jews, well then it does not make much sense anymore. We should continue the pressure, not accept the vile nazi like vibe of the Danish public, ignoring the incident and accepting it as something necessary to keep the calm. A single Jews opposed to all the trouble all the Palestinians make if they are opposed; well, we persecute the jew, this is the thinking.
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Religion is truly having a come back these days, spearheaded by his eminence pope Francis. It is difficult, all the different political games often threaten to suck you in, and be negative.

We want peace, and we still need to fight to survive, these balances are always extremely difficult to tackle.

But, I hope, that my friend mr. Bergoglio, if I may call you this, will succeed in his mission; to bring peace to the world. Religion lies at the heart of this, because if we can make peace, it will spread to the rest of the world.

I wish you luck, and may your path be filled with light.

G-d bless the will to peace.

Well, there are several elections these days in Europe, there were the elections in Lugansk and Donetsk, there is the election in Kiev voting for at new constitution and a new president, there are the european parliament voting, and it all points in one direction; the Europeans wants to be free. They are fed up with the elusive elite who are trying, behind their back to control them. So they do the only thing they are truly allowed to do; vote.

It does not comprise much in terms of freedom, but nevertheless, the tool is, if used intelligently, a way to be free. We can actually be free, and free ourselves from the tyranny of the EU, if we chose so. It will cost us, old loyalities will be broken down, but we can do it, and we are doing it.

This is just as Kennedy predicted it; a streenghtening of the regional powercenters and the loss of power in the center. We have seen it numerous times in the historical development. The citizens are treated unfairly, and the rebellion starts. We saw in the rebellion against the catholic church in the 15 century. We saw it individually in the European nations numerous times. It is the way Europe works, for good and bad.

For a long time the European elite have tried to silience me and the readers I have. For me it does not make much sense. I do not fight the European Union. The system is not viable in the long run, all I do is to try to make a path for European nations that will be possible to go travelling after the union breaks down. I think ten or five years ahead from now.

The nations will reemerge in a few years, at least in the consciousness of the citizens, and we need to give them a way to make a positive future sans the union.

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We are indeed popular these days, we the knights. We are seen as symbols of progress and purity. This has not always been so, and the ideas of knighthood have been ridiculed and not respected. As many other faiths, knights are expected to be true to their own ideals, otherwise they are really met with disregard. We need to be the ideal that we strive to meet.

For me, being a knight is not really a goal, it is me. I come from this beat down socialist family. With all the vices of such a project; broken family, multicultural nightmare, my father was from Bangladesh, my mother was a Dane from a Jewish/Christian family.

Basically it was all just mixed up. When I was a child, I did not have many friends, I grew up in ghetto, and a little intellectual person like me was respected somehow, but then again also seen as something really weird. To escape all the violence and the insecurity that such a place offered a little boy like me, I started to dream.

We had this wonderful library in the ghetto. Not that is was much visited by the other children, but for me, it was a safe haven. In there, there were no threats, and I had a wonderful world to pick and choose from. All the stories, all the adventures, all the grand ideas. It found fertile ground with smallish Asger. I read Prince Valiant, I read c.s. Lewis, I read Tolkien, I read fantasy novels and space science fiction. You could say, that instead of having a father to show me the way, I had the books, to give me direction and value.

So I wanted to be a knight. I always loved the stories about the knights, his valor, his straightbacked defense on all the good things in life.

In school I became more and more different, while as the other kids started stealing and beating each other up, I started treating the girls with dignity and respect.
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Well, the Middle East is in progress. At least the wise Iranians are on the path of peace, and it seems to me, that the great Sunni Muslim country Egypt is also on the path of peace. We all agree, that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a viable player in the politics of the world, and we must realize, that they are not in it for us, but are virulent enemies of the West and the East.

By supporting Mr. Al-Sisi the West will realize not only democracy, but also a viable and serious partner. My feeling is, that Mr. Al-Sisi is a serious and intelligent man. He works in the interest of his people, and he can claim a great many supporters. I know there have been a lot of criticism on his handling of the Muslim Brotherhood, but truly, if they are the political wing of Al-Queda, as the Copts tell us. How are we to be pointing fingers. We gave Al-Queda a lot of heat after the Two Towers went down.

In fact, the most hard pressed player in the Middle East right now is Saudiarabia. The Saudiarabians are not enemies. They are working in the interest of their political system and their faith. I support this. The Muslim Brotherhood is the main antagonist of Europe, and this leaves out the Saudis. We can find a deal, as long as we have peace.

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Well, it has been at bit of a rush after the Ukraine situation evolved. I am, for one, very sorry about the process, I believe that we should have fared much better. But at the other hand, we still avoided nuclear war, so that is a very good thing.

So, we should return our gazes on Denmark again. Just to make sure, that the system does not indulge in antisemitic excess again. We have the case with Rakel, my two year old daughter that was tortured by the PET and the prime minister. Perhaps on orders form the Bruxelles bureaucrats. It is hard to say, we just know that she suffered.

It is absolutely absurd that a modern country can get away with something like that in the 21 century. But then again, Germany did the same sixty years ago, and the mechanisms are the same. The state organizes the persecution, and the public accepts it willingly.

The scale is off cause not the same as in Nazi Germany, not yet at least, and the open discussion of it here on Rubicon.dk has scared the …. out of the PET. This is a difference between the Nazi persecution and today. People do speaks up.

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Today Europe is on the verge of total economic collapse. The engines of growth are suffering, and the tools the bureaucrats of Bruxelles use are without any effect. Propaganda is just propaganda. You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. Especially skilled and professional businessmen, they see through the propaganda.

What is the cure for this apparent malaise? Well to find a cure, you need a diagnosis. You need to understand what is wrong. There are several things wrong, but the main problem is the capability to innovate. Innovation is about idealism. Most new ideas are forged and refined by true idealists. They use all their time and money on some strange project, but all of a sudden this project turns into a new business.

Take the Apple computer. Here Steve Jobs, the archetypical business entrepreneur, wanted to make computers user friendly. As a consequence we are now typing away on truly magnificent machines that are…; user friendly. Or Elon Musk who have started all kinds of idealistic adventures in Business.

The list goes on.

How do you create the system or the frame around such geniuses? You give them freedom.

Freedom to create, test, find new ways.

This is the basic problem of the European Union, it is so over regulated, that all new initiatives are strangled in the waking. Add to this a circus of support administration of this and that, and the picture is complete; all just rearrangement of old ideas.

No new ideas.
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From time memorial, from before we even recorded our doings, from when we first set our foot on the European continent one value has been the leading. One value have we put to our hearts, and fought for, in darkened woods, in battles at sea, with lives upon lives given to this ideal, now is the time to stand fast and fight once again.

We call it many things, liberty, freedom, to be unbound. But one thing is certain, when we feel that someone are trying to control our actions, and subdue our spirits, this is when we truly remember who we are, and what we are willing to die for; freedom.

Today there are two threats against freedom. One comes from the corrupters and machinators in Bruxelles, who see it fit to strip away our freedom day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second. They do it behind our backs, in rooms filled with darkness, they take it away from us, when we look the other way. This has to stop, NOW! We will no longer be stripped from our birth right, we will not accept that someone who have no legal authority will steal what is most valuable to us, this is enough!

Second threath to our freedom comes from basically two sources, first is the most dangerous. Islamists, who take territory after territory, with deceit, with rape, with violence do they steal away our homelands. With no regard to the republic or democracy, do they nip at our freedom. Now we cannot go there, then we cannot go there. This is totally unacceptable. Second are immigrants who simply do not respect our ways, and our law. I call all, who are willing to die for freedom to sacrifice themselves to this high ideal given to us all down through our history.

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One of the most beautiful items of European culture that has been disregard and abused, has been the law. We, as europeans have one of the most advanced systems of law, an equilibrium between the will of the people and the system of justice. Today the system of law, has been made into a tool for politics. This is sacrilege. Law was never meant to be a tool of politics, it was meant to be a guiding principle of the republic, of democracy. This is the corruption the European union has brought upon us; a disregard for the most vital principle of our mother and fatherlands.

Add to this a complete sell out by the secret services, so that islamists and other indigenous groups have been given major territories to their disposal, call them sensible zones, call the ghettoes, the fact of the matter is, that these areas are left to the strong to rule, or even worse left to sharia law. What happened to Roman law?

This is what we patriots stand up for; law. So that the police or in extreme situations, the military will uphold these lofty ideals of our forefathers. That none is above the law, and law is given to protect the innocent and the weak.

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Looking at the implications of the coming election in Europe, there are the two strategies of the nationalist/EU critical parties. One is to opt for mainstream acceptance, that is basically to accept the European Union and then work against some of its ideas. Two is rejection of the European Union.

To my mind, the first stance is both immoral and stupid. The second stance makes more sense strategically and it is absolutely the high ground when it comes to ethics.

Let us have a closer look on the political challenge of our beloved homelands.

The European Union is a plethora of individual nationstates. These nationstates differ widely in terms of political alignment, culture, language, religion and in the most terms that make any difference to cooperation. There is no single idea or motive for the citizens of the different nations to cooperate. Well, for the politicians it makes sense, because they can then create a means to be powerful in the international stage. Something they believe is not possible without some kind of pooling together of resources.

The method of cooperation is beyond any ethical limits that we normally define nationstates within. There is no democracy, only propaganda. There is no interest in the well-being of the citizens of Europe, only tyranny and abuse. There is no rationale that would propel the European continent to a better and more happy future. It is all darkness.

Why accept this horror? I makes no sense to me on an ethical level.

Then let us have a look on the EU on a strategic level. The only reason it is still in this world is because it has shed no means to corrupt, force and destroy. It is a behemoth on clay feet. Why is this so? It is because the European elite are well aware, that they do not have the support of the European voters for their enterprise, so they just use all the power they have to oppress and control the voters. They are in a direct confrontation. This is really the crux around what all evolves. The opposition between the electorate and the power machinators.
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When we try to be better persons, we are in an endless fight with ourselves, to try to take away the evil inclinations, and do good.

There are many tool to use, if you want to advance yourself on the path of goodness. But perhaps we should look back upon one of those first paths of goodness that the wise Zoroaster crafted. According to his ideas, being a better person was a ladder, climbing higher and higher to the realm of spirit. How is this to be understood? Well, as I see it, ethics is the ladder, spirit is the goal.

When we are torn from spirit at birth, we lose ourselves into the tiny capsule of our bodies. If we remain unaltered and uneducated. We tend to lose ourselves into the wilderness of nature. We lose our humanity and become like the beasts, fighting over scraps of territory or ways of upholding our existence.

Spiritual progress is a continuous correction of our lives and deeds. Some conservatives believe these corrections are about fighting to control or limit other persons, this is mostly wrong. Not always, but mostly. Being a conservative is about shedding the shackles of inhumanity. As one of the wise priests of Babylon once wrote.
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Talking about the peace effort in the Middle East, we need to have a plan.

So far, the plan has followed Cold War lines, and the result was as when we tried it the first time in the Oslo accords; total failure. The trust is not there, and the partners are all in total denial as to how we may overcome the problems. Not good.

Why is this so? Because we are treating the symptoms not the root problem. What is the root problem? Well, it is quite obvious if you think about it. What is the vehicle of Middle Eastern development? Is it growth? No. Is it politics? No. It is religion. All major religions have home in the Middle East, and therefore they all fight each other for supremacy.

Therefor the root cause is the fighting between the religions.

To alter this challenge, we therefore need to make a new path where all three religions can travel down upon. Each religion have in their prophesies, that it will rule the entire world, this is only possible if they all advance together and not as individual religions. The new super religion, that encompasses all three faiths, will rule the world, and thereby fulfilling the prophecy.

In Kabbalah we talk about the age of the Messiah, and this is the age we are entering.
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Europe is in danger, not to acknowledge this is to be a fool. There are actually not one danger, but a whole hosts of dangers we need to address.

How do we do this? By returning to a national governed Europe, where international cooperation is a good thing, but only where it makes sense.

The first step is to remake the ideas of a nation, or rather, to reenergize and give a rebirth to the idea of a nation.

Nations are ancient ideas with roots back to Babylon and beyond, but it needs to be modified to fit the current challenges and reality.

The reality is, that we are overrun by enemies. Mainly what we have decided to call Islamists. These are radical Muslims, who see it fit to wage war on European countries from within. They are wise, and there are extremely dangerous. So far, the answer to their war efforts have been vague and riddled with corrupt measures, whole parts of our cities have been, silently, by the secret police, given over to sharia law.

This is what we call appeasement. But as Winston Churchill once said, if you feed a crocodile, it will only grow and get more hungry. We need to stop feeding the crocodile, and start treating it as it is; an enemy.
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The peaceproces in the Middle East has now left the headlines of the world, because of the failed attempt of mr. John Kerry on Israel/Palestine reconciliation and because the Ukrainian drama is, it seems, so much more filled with potential for disrupting the international order.

I beg you to see, that it is neither. Ukraine will not get out of hand, because the Russians seem to be well tempered, mr. Putin is not interested in a global war, so he will respect the de-escalation efforts.

The Iran/Israel conflict is however much more potent with chaotic developments. If Iran and Israel enters a violent struggle, it will continue, because there are no restraints holding them back. And it will drag other powers into the orbit of violence.

Looking at the results of mr. Barack Obama in his second tenure, the peace process we started in his first tenure seem to be running out of time and steam.

We still have a good chance, but, as I said, the odds are getting smaller and smaller as we speak.

Now, I propose however one line of action, that might soothe tempers. In Iran, there is an ongoing feud between hard liners and soft liner. We need to help the soft liners. Therefore provocation of any kind, should be stopped or not enacted. It will only push the balance between the hard liners and the soft liners to the advantage of the hard liners, because they argue, that the west is corrupted and acting like tyrants. We need to be the good guys.
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We are walking on a very thin rope of tremendous catastrophic implications. If we fail, the world will be plunged into an all encompassing war never seen before in the same calibre.

Two military alliances are pitted against each other. Russia against USA, and if we lose the peace momentum, atomic warheads will start flying between east and west. This is the threat we are dealing with.

In Ukraine it seems the situation is more or less stabilized. I really hope the pro Russian regions find some relief. And I hope the Kievan government will stop the aggressive and honestly totally mad and absurd war against unarmed citizens, and be serious about going to the negotiation table. Hopefully the independent vote of the regions will serve as a starting point for this. Is is obvious to all, that the regions wish to be free, and it is their right to chose that.

But, the chaotic situation does not stop there, in fact the conflict has pushed another process to the brink of all out war. The conflict between Israel and Iran.

In the first tenure of mr. Barack Obama, we really made a lot of progress on this issue, and Iran was on a peaceful bend.

This we have put to risk, and if the negotiations break down, this will call for war between Israel and Iran.

It may very well draw both Russia and USA into the conflict. If this happens, atomic warheads will fly between the two world powers. Destroying both in the wake. A new world, where China is dominant and Europe will wake up to a totally new reality where they are alone will emerge representatives of Europeans culture.

The Middle East will be on total war, and also here tremendous destruction will come to the shores of the believers.

This is the situation, and all that stands between this and apocalypse, is one little blogger serving the founding fathers of peace and religion.

Let there be light cried Moses, as he descended the mount Sinai. He did not fight for a better and more enlightened world to see it, at the very brink of peace, torn apart by the forces of chaos.

The next great drama will be the peace negotiations between Iran, Israel the US and Russia. We will see how that fares, but the chances are small for success.

G-d bless the peace of man we still hope and fight for.

When we wish to make a better world we often talk about light. We put forth visions of mighty light warriors, or enlighteners, transparency. The fight between good and evil.

But if we really focus on the principles of this central code of faith, then what do we get?

There are, to my knowledge, two currents of theory. One is the Jewish structure of ideas, the other is the Platonic structure of ideas. They intermingle and yet have each and their clear differences.

Let us have a look at the Jewish ideas. First of all, Judaism is the spirit of the heart. It is all about the positive things in life, and off cause light is seen in this frame of understanding.

When we live, and wish to be good, we share. We treat our neighbors as we wish to be treated ourselves. Light in this context is the fulfilling of our neighbors needs. When we are in lack of something, we tend to get aggressive, jealous, greedy. If we are satisfied, we are in peace. Light in this context, is the fulfilling of our neighbors needs.

Take the Ukraine conflict. What do Donetsk and Lugansk need? They need freedom, and light in this situation would be to give them the freedom they lack.

In Platonism, light is another thing. I have tracked it to Egypt, where the G-d of the sun Amun Ra, situated in the town Heliopolis, had a different angle on the principle.

According to the ancient Egyptians light was the truth.

Hence science, politics and transparency as a principle. This is actually why freedom of speech is the first amendment in the American constitution; to make room for truth, symbolized by the goddess of light in the New York harbor.

Light as truth is very difficult to work with. There are basically two modes. One is the light of the sun, the other is the light of the moon.

The light of the sun is purifying for a state or a nation. This light is wielded by the strongest and most courageous of citizens. They seek to put light on the corruption of society, thereby diminishing it, and thereby keeping the nations healthy. These lightbringers are often persecuted and killed, as Socrates.
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There is a chance for peace in the Middle East, it is getting less and less probable as the tenure mr. Kerry is realized in total chaos. So to turn the boat and remake some kind of process is almost impossible, but we need to try.

And we do this because Israel is about that; peace. I hereby congratulate Israel on its 66 birthday, may it life forever.

G-d bless the unity and prosperity we may win in the interest if spirit.

We need to unite Europe, but on a national level. How do we do that? We do it by combining a true national superstructure, with a serious conservative bend.

Nations tend to fight each other over past grievances. As we see it in Ukraine. Old scars open up, and people are aggressive and want to “get back” on some past loss or power struggle.

This will lead to endless feuding and not peace. This has to stop.

We can do it, by constructing a superstructure of a conservative basis, with wise old men, who can lead us to peace.

In the time of the antiques, there we many advanced methods of organization. The most conservative was the Spartan way. Here twin houses of kings held sway over the Spartan constitution for over a millennia.

It was advanced, because it had checks and balances, and we see in for instance the American constitution with an upper house as and a lower house, keeping things in a balance.

If we construct an international organization we can copy the system of the Spartans combined with the system of the grail knights of England.
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[mpoverlay][/mpoverlay]Tomorrow there is an election coming up in the two most pro russian regions of Ukraine; Donetsk and Lugansk. I wholeheartedly support it. It is the right of the people of the two regions to decide for themselves. This is not about the power game of the great states of the world, this is about the choice of independent citizens of a part of the world. We, as world powers, are not the authorities in this question, it is solely the citizens of Donetsk and Lugansk. It is their right to choose where they wish to put down their allegiance.

War is the result of egoism, it is the will of the dark one. We can, if we wish, give to our brethren peace and freedom. If we force them to follow our will, we are not giving the peace and tolerance that is commandment given to us, if we wish to be good people.

This is not about territory or power, it is about the freedom of the citizens of Donetsk and Lugansk, and they are entitled to uphold and realize this freedom, if they wish.

G-d bless the freedom they may have, if we allow them.

We are now heading for a new change of paradigm within the European community. For a long time the French old regime, that is the 68, have pushed for a tightening of European nations into a federation. This has to end, the new generation have different ideas.

If we look at the difference there are marked principle ideas that are different. Where the old generation worked on a easing of national identity, we work on a strengthening of national identity.

This calls us back to the idea of a nation state, an idea molded in the fair gardens of Eden, perfected in Babylon and enhanced to a crying and luminous beacon of civilization in the minds of the ancient philosophers of Greece.

This is the cup we wish to drink, not as Socrates to die, but as a rejuvenating nectar of the wells of the G-ds.

What I believe is necessary, is to create a common platform we all share, so that we have a set of principles that binds us together. It would be a catastrophe if we ended up in the same mess as the generations of the 20′ th century.

So it is an alignment; culturally as well as philosophically.

There are basically two camps in the anti EU menagerie. Those who wish to be a part of the establishment, and those who wish to make a revolution.

In the first camp we see UKIP and Danish Peoples party. These two parties believe, that the anti EU campaign can be resolved within the system, and are actively seeking accord with media, other politicians and bureaucracy.

This is their choice and somehow I wish them all the best of luck.

The other part are the revolutionaries, they wish to change the entire system. To make a new Europe, where we are not under the scrutiny and oppression of the EU bureaucrats. They see the European Union as a tyranny.

I wholeheartedly support the revolutionaries. In Denmark I am basically the only revolutionary left, and this is not due to my own actions, but due to drift towards the corrupt middle ground by all parties. They have caught on to the corruption, as we saw with the acceptance of the torture of my little girl Rakel, the very same mechanisms as in Nazi Germany is in the Danish system.

So, to keep the beat, and stay on course, we need to make our priorities simple and attainable.

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The nations of Europe are gathering in new formations. After the next round of European Union electorate rounds, a new party with the pro nationalist are forming. At the head of the new community is France who, as always, are leading new philosophical developments of Europe.

It is extremely important, that the new community gets off in a positive way. We need to stress what binds us together, not what puts us apart. We are all a part of a new movement that is pronationalist, at the same time we have formed an ideology that is positive and pro life.

It is not about who we hate or dislike, it is all about what we like and what we are strongly in favor of.

Progress is about finding new ways in a difficult situation, to deliver answers on difficult questions. This is the option we have now. To ensure that Europe live to fight another day, and that there may be nations, freedom and prosperity not only for us, but also for our children.
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The crisis in Ukraine is now entering its final phase. Many deeds and atrocities have been done. There may be different arguments for what have been done. But we should always remember, that people who are not here anymore have sisters, brothers, children and friends. And they pay the price we extoll from them when we take their loved ones away.

Looking in the rear mirror of the situation in Odessa, where many people died, I know that this mistake will be very difficult to forgive. The Right Sector did one mistake; they thought too much of themselves and too little of the society.

Right Sector see themselves as heirs to the crusaders. Well, being a member of the hospitaliers and having the honour as being bestowed with the cross of the ancient nights, I may have a certain weight in this matter.

Look at it this way. When the crusaders fought in the Middle East they did not do it to create chaos, they did it to protect the pilgrims.

The pilgrims were preyed upon, and had no protection, the hospitaliers and the nights Templar stood guard over them at the crossings and in Jerusalem.

My point is, to be a true night, your mission is to protect the weak. Stand guard over them, so that they may reach their destiny on their path.
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The Middle East is still trying to get over the post Kerry peace attempt. The attempt had the opposite effect than intended. This is a story told, and a story soon forgotten, because the motivation is still here, everybody wants peace, it just has to be by the right people, in the right sequence of action.

First of all, there are some wounds to be healed. The wise clerics of Iran are very worried, the entire political system was prepared to enter onto the path of peace when the late peace process started, and are now worried. Especially because they are afraid that Israel will not meet them on the path of peace.

This is nothing to worry about. As long as we can initiate the discussion between Iran and Israel on a serious basis, where all participants are in it for the common goal, progress can be made. But it should be an honest and true communication.

Then the next step is the positive visit by his eminence pope Francis to Jerusalem. It will, hopefully, be the point of initiation of the new peace process that will not focus on the conflicts between the Palestinians and Israeli citizens, but will focus on the common ground of all three monotheistic religions.

This is really the motivation and the motor of the peace process, it is not about the well being of the citizens of Israel or Palestine, it is a higher goal. Not to diminish the security of Israelies and Palestinians, but to make the process something that all three monotheistic religions can understand and see as something worthwhile.
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I find it extremely difficult to seep through all the information floating around concerning Ukraine. It seems to me, that there is an ongoing confrontation on a secret level between Russia and the US. But it also seem to me, that the situation on ground is totally out of control, and the large powers are more or less powerless and not able to steer the conflict much.

This is a problem, because this makes the possibility of a peaceful solution almost impossible to reach.

I however really agree on one thing with mr. Putin. Using military against civilians is not really that great.

On the other hand, it is difficult to conclude much on the level of professionalism of the Donetsk fighters, and who they may include of foreign fighters.

All in all, it is a mess, and instead of using the mess in the great power game, I really believe the international community should start finding solutions to stem the chaos and give peace to the hapless citizens of Ukraine. We risk a Syria scenario with prolonged warfare, and that would be a catastrophe for all involved.

G-d bless the peace we may find.

There are new alignments in the world, and in these days these alignments are changing rapidly.

In the Cold War, Russia and the US was opposed to each other, and all the rest of the world had to align to this dichotomy.

Now, the East – West alignment has simply stopped. Russia is not interested in ruling the world, it is simply interested in protecting Russians.

So the fight has changed, add to this the end of the ideological opposition between communism and capitalism, simply the world is different.

All players in the world are trying to realize their own role in this new world order, some with more luck than others. I really believe Barack and I came a long way in his first tenure, and perhaps the seeds we planted will blossom in the future, bringing a more solidly based United States of America.

Likewise in Europe, here Germany has shed the role as follower and are starting to lead the European mainland.

In fact the entire picture has become much more complex and difficult to understand.

Is this good or bad?
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The European Union is not working, there may be a lot of arguments, peace arguments, economical arguments, power arguments. But at the end of the day it does not work.

According to the renowned historian Paul Kennedy, the reason why the EU is not working, is because it is too diversified. Other powers as China and to a lesser degree South America and India have a better organization and will therefore win in the long run.

It has been my ambition to turn that development by eliminating the weaknesses of European culture and strengthening the virtues.

This has happened both in east ans west.

But, to my dismay, the process is going very slow in Europe, that is mainly because of the autocratic and inept control by the European Union. Some of the seeds and ideas I have had have blossomed and are bearing fruit, like the faith of Europe and the strengthening og the national ideas.

But due to the oppressive nature of the Bruxelles bureaucracy, the progress is halted to a stop, and often to a regression.

Why is this so?

The problem is the lack of understanding of how the political framework of democracy and nation states work.

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Now, to pursue the peace of Israel and the Middle East, we need to understand the way this may happen.

The current negotiations have failed, and that is because the alignments were basically Cold War alignments. Things have changed, the ideological tit for tat dynamics of the Cold War has stopped, even though we had a brief setback in Ukraine, and the new dynamics is more chaotic, but also less threatening dynamic.

So, we can move on.

The overall aim of the process is to strengthen all three monotheistic religions. We need to carry that mission to its end. If we reach this goal, world will enter into a phase of peace unknown to mankind.

There are some fights yet to fight, like the fight with the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, but after that peace will descend on mankind.

The leader of the process seems to be the pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church. He has paved the way for a new way of seeing religion as something worthwhile, and something respected.

Therefor the meeting of his eminence Francis and the Jerusalem participants is the starting point of the peace process.

I know that the plan of the meeting in Jerusalem has already been more or less set, but in the light of the recent events, and the setback of the Cold War peace process, perhaps a new alignment could be arranged?

To initiate the process, meetings with the heads of the two other monotheistic religions, and the two other dominant Christian religions could perhaps be arranged. Shia, Sunni, Orthodox, Anglican the head of the official Jewish rabbinate plus the head of the reformed rabbinate.

Who to invite and the whereabouts is a bit of a puzzle where all should be invited that counts, but no one should feel rejected.

This is truly a task with moment of splendor, and the possible work of all who believe in the spirit.

G-d bless the possibility of peace.

One of the most difficult answers these days is the answer to the crisis of England. Once the ruler of the world, today only a shadow of its former glory.

When you loose your prestige and your dominion crumbles, you need to realign yourself with the new conditions.

Now, the problem is not lack of money or power, the UK is powerful and rich. The problem is the alignment of the current government. The philosophy of the government, it has not been adjusted to the reality of this time.

There are two main focuses that needs to be realigned to remake the prowess of the proud Britains.

One, you need to shed yourself of all political correctness. You cannot follow the trend you have followed theses last forty yours, you need to realign.

Second, you need to tackle the growing threat of Islamist on your own land.

The first question should be connected to the other. Because how do you realign your current philosophical ideas with the tackling of the threat of Islamism?

You do it by redefining the ideas of the state to tackle the Islamist.

Now, the problem of the current system is the fact that it is too focused on the imperial heritage. England still sees itself as the heir to Rome. This is over.

The empire has fallen, how sad or difficult this is to realize, this is the fact.

Therefor a new philosophy should supercede the old philosophy.
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There are several territorial issues at stake in the confrontation between east and west, but there is something much more profound on stake that has yet been undisclosed and not mentioned in the debacle between the states of east and west.

The trust.

To trust someone, you need to understand that person, and the relationship you may build up, is in direct relation to the connection to the spirit we have in common.

If we do not have a connection to spirit, we are prone to see everything through our own perspective and do as we as individuals see fit.

If we are in connection to spirit, we tend to share our good will and our feelings with other persons.

This is what trust is; it is a connection maintained over time, and a continued understanding of the relation as something good.

When we fight, we tend to distrust each other, we see the other persons through our own fears and prejudice, as people always call Jews “scourge of the earth”, we as Jews know, that is not us they look upon, but their own self image, distorted and somehow darkened by the shadow of materialism.

This is what is happening in Ukraine, we are sucked deeper and deeper into the prejudice and the hate of each other, and we cannot see other persons as they are.

This vicious circle has to be broken if we are to make peace.

We need to shed the prejudice and see each other as we are, not as enemies, but as normal persons with fears and ambition, the peace deal is made when we settle on what is a true compromise and try to find a way to release our fears and find trust again.

G-d bless the continuation of peace.

The situation in Ukraine have developed into a very tense situation, nobody wins, all looses in this confrontation. The peace is not easily won, and feelings are running high.

In this situation, I recommend a cool attitude, and a view on the interest of all the involved people in the land.

Ukraine wants to make a constitutional reform where Russians are protected. This is right, but still I believe there should be a possibility for the regions of Ukraine who wish to be a part of or aligned with Russia to have that option. That is a vote.

This would be fair, and solve the crisis.

If the rebellious regions wants to be a part of Russia, it this their choice, not the elites choice.

This is truly my recommendation, to give all who wish it a vote in or out, that would be fair.

G-d bless the peace we should and will win!

The fleeting state of Ukraine, needs to learn how to play the game of power in order to realize its potential.

As we speak, the confrontation and the alliances are done in a manner that will not lead to progress but rather just to more conflict.

Look at it this way; the world is a great power house where great powers rise and fall. The rise is stopped by too much spending on military equipment, the fall is stopped by reducing the resources used on war.

This is why most great powers are very reluctant to use their very expensive war machine, sometimes it is done, but the cost is often not in correspondence with the gain.

This is why there is a very little risk in the conflict in Ukraine, there is not an incentive for the great powers to lose the money it costs to make a war.

Therefor most players play with the minimum resources invested.

Now, to make a balance between the great powers that Ukraine has pitted against each other, it needs to play the game in a professional way.

Neither the West or the East wants to lose face, and both parties wants a plan that they can actually count on. Therefor reliability is extremely important. Making a deal and then breaking it, is bad for the international business, because this means that the entire process of diplomacy is nullified, and the risk of war is intensified, to the risk of all involved.

So, you need to get your resources and your people together, and make a deal.

Then you need to reach out with a proposition. I have proposed several plans, that all had the intent of remaking Ukraine into a wealthy and prosperous state, but you need to take these ideas seriously, otherwise, you will just be the punchbag between the different great powers.

You need to be professional.

Then there is the matter of ideology. Mr. Putin has his ideology to offer, the US has its ideology to offer. You need to take this into consideration.

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The progress of the European Union has come to a halt. The integration of the social systems seems to be the breaking point. The dissolution of the Northern European wealth fare states that the electorate fear, is falsely or rightly blamed on the European Union. The tool the leaders of Europe wanted to implement to safe Europe have become the problem. At least to the public of the Europeans.

It is a matter of skill; to save Europe you need much more than integration and bureaucratic adventures. You need intelligence and strategical thinking of the highest order.

This has not been the strengths of the European Union, on the contrary.

Today the economical progress has not been turned, on the contrary, the demise has been accelerated.

There is still a possible way out, and this is what we philosophers work on; to make a path that will drag Europe out of the misery it is in. But it will not work with the current system, the construction is too opaque and the geographical borders are to haphazardly constructed to really work. The people who are in the European Union do not feel connected, and a union is not the physical bureaucratic superstructure, it is the citizens and the people who inhabit it.

So, there is really only one solution, and that is to deconstruct the European Union, and remake the process to make an architecture that will truly serve the citizens of Europe. A union to serve the people of Europe, and not the other way around.

Perhaps it will be two unions, or three, we will se what the people wants, and do what we should according to their will.

Already the new paradigm of nations have entered in the world. USA have become stronger Russia have become stronger, but the development still needs to be realized in Europe.

The difficult process however is the keeping of peace. There is a lot of bad blood in between the the different nations, and we shall see if we can keep that peace. This is really, in the context of the progress of the nations of Europe, the Ukrainian crisis is all about. Are we, as nationalists able to make peace and make a fair compromise on the conflicts over arable land? Or are we, as we always told, power hungry imperialist in disguise?

I hope we will end up in a world, where all peoples are able to life in each their nations, and keep peace with their neighbors.

This is the goal, and may we all progress along those lines, and perhaps the Ukrainians can see the ultimate goal for all the nations?

They hold this development in their hands, and hopefully they will see it as their aim not to think only about themselves, but also on all the rest of us, who will suffer, if they do not support the national rebuilding of Europe, by respecting, that all nations should live side by side in peace.

G-d bless the nations too come, if we are supported by the will of spirit and the good grace of the Ukrainian people.

We are hopefully reaching a compromise in Ukraine. It would have been a terrible thing to see the beautiful country wreaked and torn by war. War is something you cannot imagine if you have not lived in it, and therefore you are often prone to start war not knowing the consequences.

This time, it seems to me we avoided it.

There is still a process that will hopefully lead to a good constitution with the protection of all minorities included.

If this is done, there will be peace, and the world will have avoided the tragedy of war.

You hereby have the full and true support of Israel, in the interest of all the citizens of Ukraine, may your children grow up in a world that is secure, may your future be bright, and may you all be happy in your chosen nation.

G-d will hereby bless the nation of Ukraine, if everything settles in the interest of peace.

When we discuss the existence of good and bad, we must realize, that there are many ideas about this, and many interpretations. So, to really understand this, we can choose the best to our needs.

Here is one reflection on it, that I find simple and logical. In life we are always met with hardships and pain. The more we are unguided by some wise men, the higher the pain.

In this situation, the good is the wisdom of life. How to avoid the suffering and pain that life may otherwise lead to.

Good is then a set of rules to life by, a do´s and don’ts that we can use to make a better life. Take drugs. Why is it a stupid idea to use drugs? Because it may give an instant feeling of wellbeing or joy, but the day after comes the hangover, and in the long run too much drinking will ruin your life. Same goes for gambling and excess in most ways.

So the wise man will tell you to avoid these things, not to put restrains on your life, but to guide you to a better life.

Here again it is a matter of balance, because there is no wrong in drinking a beer or having a nice time with your friends, in fact this is a good thing, but the excess is the problem.

Good is then to purify your life and be as clean as possible. This will, most probably, give you success, because if you drink or gamble all your money, needless to say, you ruin your life.

But good is also the joys of life. The time with family, the joy of children, the joy of a good meal in the light of all whom you love.

So the idea is basically, that you may find your own path between the does and don’ts, but with a healthy eye on freedom as well.

G-d bless the wisdom of good advice.

If we zoom in on the basic work of church, mosque or synagogue. There is the work of guiding.

We all, as human beings, need guidance. If we do not have guidance, we will end in misery. That is the way the world, or rather the physical world, is constructed. If we just go on with our lives, doing things without thinking, we will end in separation from whom we love, and in abuses of different kind.

But we need to realize, that even though the goal may be the same. That is happiness and enlightenment, there are many roads to that goal.

This is where guidance comes into play. Because each person will need an individual guidance to help him in his or her lives. This is why it is extremely important to listen, and try to envisage ourselves in the place of the ones who needs our guidance.

Here true live experience is the key. You can have so much theoretical knowledge in the university or school, but only through practical experience will this knowledge be truly useful.

We need to shed the comfort of the ivory tower or easy life, and hit the road. We need to see things from the perspective of the poor or the persecuted. Only then are we able to be true guides.

G-d bless the will to be useful to the world.