When we pray for something, we are the little guys, humble, listening to what spirit might have to tell us. We try to be honest to what path spirit may have chosen for us. These indication are always right, they always brings us onto a better place. Sometimes in the small matters, sometimes in the large matters. But, always, if we are humble and listen, will the ideas of spirit leads us to the right place.

So we know, that there is something that is protecting us, guiding us. And we know therefor, that there is hope. This is a lesson we should hold onto in these difficult times, where we are confronted with horrors, challenges, hardships. We need to listen to spirit. Because he has a plan, and we need to follow that plan. The goals are, and must be, as he knows; peace, justice, joy for mankind. Not sacrilege and pain.

Sometimes when war is upon us, we forget to listen to G-d, we are all inflamed by the moment, and we are doing things rashly and without the thought of what comes after the war. The tradegy and pain we give to others, will untimately have to be repented. Because the wounds we give to others do not disappear, it will be our own faults that we somehow have to seek forgiveness of when everything is finished.

So we need to understand, that what we do at the spur of the moment, will we have to go back to at a later stage of our lives, and try to undo.

There is no faults in protection. We should not accept being slaughtered, because also that is a crime. Suicide will not hold us free from blame. The difficult balance is the balance between protection and aggression. This calls for a reflective process, where we, all the time try to understand the consequences of what we do, see it from the perspective of our enemies as well, and seek a path, that is both forceful in defense, and meek in destruction. This is why the precision is paramount. We need to destroy as little as possible. Keep innocents from harm, and try to keep the final bill of the war as small as possible.

This is important, otherwise we are just dragged down to the same level as our enemies, and they would love that, but that would be a sin. We are not sinners, we are defenders of the weak. Strong in ideas, strong in arms, but not weak in conscience.

G-d bless the wise in battle and the strong in applying the adequate force.

One thing is sure, the Islamic State are direct. Now they have threatened to kill one journalist, and have already killed one. The bargain is clear; we will kill more, if you do not do as we say.

The language is simple, rule or be ruled. The rule of the strongest. This language will be the language we will talk for the rest of the conflict. There will be no pardon given, no result of any talks, just a huge war of attrition. The Gaza conflict will look like a picnic in the Central Park compared to this war that is coming.

For the western leaders, we should realize, that there is no room of negotiation, no way we can make a deal. We can try, but it will be upturned the day after. The direct aim of the caliphatists is clear, they want to rule the entire world, not just Iraq. They will either be stopped or succeed. Is is this a realistic idea? Well what did people think about Alexander the Great when he started conquering Persia with 50.000 men, and Persia had the ressources of 2 million men? Or when Hitler did the same with a book he wrote in prison? To when Lenin made his first attempts on revolution? Never underestimate an idealist. Few men can change the world with dedication and sacrifice.

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Winston Churchill was an adamant criticizer of the rise of Nazi Germany. Many, especially the Americans did not really understand why they should get involved in yet another devastating war in Europe, until they opened the gates of Birkenau and Auswitch.

Had we listened to Churchill at an earlier time, things would not have gotten so much out of hand, perhaps Hitler could have been stopped at the gates of Poland, and remained a very positive figure. But because Europe was so war weary, we did not react until it was almost too late.

This lesson is important to remember these days where the Islamic state is on a rampage in the Middle East. We should not be naiv, they are coming to our world sooner or later. In a few years it will not be yazidis who are hanging on crosses but Christians and Jews, in Europe.

If you act in a timely manner, with intelligence and humanity, you can avoid the atrocities that would happen if you ignore the problems.

So, it is time to realize the threat and act on it. But, never indulge in hate and all out war. Because there are many Muslims who wish for a progressive and humane world.

Our task should be to always keep the upper moral ground, never get lost in a reactive tit for tat. This has served us very well in the first phase of the conflict, we should consider this method to be the basis on witch we plan out strategies. Keep our heads clear and act according to the best strategy, not just what we might feel and what angers us.

My father was a very, very wonderful person. I loved him with all a boy could love with. He was a Muslim. He was always an example to me, a wise and strong person. Therefor I know all Muslim are not just evil persons. Muslims are like everybody else, fighting for their spot in the sun, trying to make a better world for their children than what they had themselves. But the ideology of the Islamic state is horrendous. It is as simple as that.

To be a humanist, a Mahathma Ghandhi a Nelson Mandela a Winston Churchill, a Martin Luther King, a Christian X, one has to be honest to the values of a nation. We did inherit these values from exactly the place that is under the dark banner of the Islamists; Mesopotamia, Uruk, Babylon.

We should call for a true vision of these values again. Stop the slaughter, be true to the spiritual calling of G-d. We are just here to bring the harmony between men, not to elevate ourselves to the level of G-ds ourselves. We should be humble and respect life as the gift it is, not just slaughter innocent people, be it monotheist or polytheists.

G-d bless the peace we will win, if we look through the veils of confusion and fear.

We are getting closer to a solution in the Israeli/Gazan conflict. Still there are many principles to turn and understand. But hopefully we will reach a conclusion within the next one or two months.

A lot of prestige is invested in the deal. World powers are convening, local men of great strength are a part of the discussion. Some are winners some are losers, but the overall trend is, that all of the great powers are actually winning, one way or the other.

It seems to me, that the Americans have been sidelined a bit in the current negotiations. First the process Kerry initiated went wrong, then there was the negotiations with Quatar and Turkey that went wrong as well. Now we have an alliance of the Arab Nations, Israel, Iran and Russia.

If we get closer to a real deal, I really advice getting the Americans in as well. They are key players in the region, and if they get in, areas in other parts of the world could be included in the negotiations. Friendship and goodwill won in one area could perhaps we shared in another area.

I know things are difficult sometimes, but we are all in the same boat, and if Mr. Barack Obama gets some of the credit of the deal, he will be in a much better mood when it comes to make good deals elsewhere.

G-d bless the deals that eventually will lead to peace.

Jews fleeing persecution is not something that has happened once, or twice, or a hundred times. It happens, as we speak in Europe again. Sixty years after the last time.

Sometimes music can express things more clearly than words.

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Some years back, I went on the Camino. That is a Christian route of pilgrimage to the beautiful church of Santiago de Compostella. That tour was, in many ways, changing for me. I took great leaps of progress with myself, and I met many young people from all around Europe. One of the persons I met, was this young German. He was bended, and searching for something. He seemed to have lost his soul. He was on a mission to refind it. This gave me a feeling for the German loss and the tragedy that the second world war was for Germans. They simply lost their soul. The economy is very good, thanks to the Americans, but the feeling of being German and being proud of that identity is still not really possible.

We as Jews were at the end of that brutal war machine that Nazi Germany was. My own great grandmother had to flee in a small fishing boat over the Øresund. So I have no illusions about the course of the Nazi regime, or the depravity and sheer evil that was in Nazisms. In fact I have met some Nazis here in Denmark, and the coldness, and the emptiness of their gaze really chills me. They are squeezed out of society, and a regime fallen is always a sad sight, but evil will not rest if it is given too much space to roam.

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The negotiations are coming to an end, so much prestige is invested, so much is hinged upon this little peace deal.

These are my reflections.

First of all, things are actually shaping up for the better of Israel. New machines to detect the tunnels are under development, the iron dome defense system is improving. So, if the current development is continued, in a year or two, Israel will actually have used science to protect itself. So that is good news.

In the political sphere, the politicians, seem to have widened up their game. The realization that Gaza is just the symptom and not the cause, will help a lot. We are in a position to make peace with the Arab nation, and if mr. Barack Obama makes peace with Iran, we have peace with both sides, giving us the ability to invest time and money in a plan to enhance this peace deal. How do we do that? We do it by contributing, positively, to the spiritual and material development of our new friends. Both iran and the Arab nation is in want of development, but on their own terms. They see India, Brazil, China and many more countries developing, and they want to be part of this new progress. This is what we can help them with, we have the knowledge and the tech to ensure a peaceful progress.

Add to this the development of the intellectual basis of the Middle East, and in ten to twenty years, the constant fighting could be changed into peace and prosperity.

Now, focusing back on Gaza. There are different demands that should be balanced off. First of all, Hamas wants an airport and a seaport. Well, as I see it, these are good things for all. As long as Israel can monitor the freight, so that no weapons of a certain size can be imported. Then I can’t see the problem. Right now, most things are brought into Gaza through the tunnels, but that will not last, because the tunnels are being destructed. So they need somewhere to import things. If we can monitor it, we will actually have a better chance at securing what goes in and out of Gaza than before.

The next problem is then the disarmament of Hamas. They refuse. Well, I understand that, they need to be ready for some of the clashes that might arise with other groups. At the other hand Israel needs to be safe from the rockets. So my proposal is, that Hamas should hand over its rockets, and destroy the production facilities. They are not of much anyway. As the Iron dome develops, they are slowly getting obsolete. They can the keep all the other armament as small arms, RPGs and so on.

Hamas needs to act now to reach a deal. If Hamas remains as the top power broker in Gaza, it can actually decide whether it wants to join the Arab nation in the peace process and be a central player in this development, or just remain in Gaza as the defender of the city. But it needs to act fast, because IS is moving in on them, and taking all the attention.

G-d bless the peace we can make.

So the conflicts are slowly spilling into Europe. Cries of antisemitism, that we forsworn never to hear again is heard in Berlin, in Copenhagen. IS is the new game in town, so much more radical than Hamas.

When we look on war, according to the classical historian Thucydides it works like this; the problems are not the fighting or the killing. It is the conflicts that run in between friends and family. The entire society is torn asunder between the Spartans or the Athenians. Between democracy and spartanism, between democracy and communism, between democracy and islamism.

When people fight, the longer the fighting the more hatred and animosity towards your opponent will come. This we should bear in mind in Europe. The fighting has just been upped a notch. The niceties of propaganda and caring about media has been abandoned, and now we are casting away the masks, and fight as we are. This was also the way it happened in the second world war, in the end, there were nothing that held the russians back when they entered Berlin, and nothing that kept the RAF bombing picturesque German cities. The slaughter just intensified.

Wheel the current development forward ten years, and what have we got? With the rate of escalation, and the feelings frayed and the anger.

We thought the third world war would be between Russia and the US. We actually avoided that, but in the fighting we sowed and now we reap. The enemy is not the Russians, it is the islamists.
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To really understand the situation in Israel now, we have to see it in a greater perspective. As of now, there are several warring factions in Gaza, and new ones come into the game right now.

Gaza reflects the changing tides of politics in the world and in the Middle East, when socialism was strong, the rebels or fighters were socialists. When the Muslim brotherhood were strong, the rebels were a faction of the Muslim brotherhood.

Now, the new fighter is IS. In reality this player is outwards strong and successful, but in the great game they are quite weak. They have a few halfhearted friends, but none really strong. So far they have funded themselves more or less.

If you compare this to Hamas, who had and still has a strong support in especially socialist political environments in Europe, they are weak. Hamas has been able to whip up support in western media, this is not the case with IS, on the contrary, they have done all the wrong things. So in a way, it is a sign of weakness.

In Gaza Hamas is on its way out, and IS is on its way in. This means, that within half a year, we are dealing with an opponent, that is much weaker in terms of support, in fact we will have help from all around the world beating IS. So, if we can keep our calm, and negotiate with an eye on what is actually happening in and around Israel, we can pull a good deal.

Hamas is not done yet, and in fact, I hope we reach a deal. Hamas seem pretty scared of IS, I would be too, if I lived right besides them, so if I were them, I would make that deal and start defending.

G-d bless the fact that we are still working for peace in an environment that is increasingly hostile to that.

When we are fighting the first thing we lose is our priority. We often end up in our feelings, and start fighting for survival or because we are very, very scared. It is as it is with us humans, after all, when we are threatened with our own extinction, we fight to survive. Me too, for a long time, I fought with the Danish system to survive, so I know the feeling.

But, really, what we fight for, is to win the peace.

In Egypt, there are amazing traditions that we today, in the West, know as humanism. It started in Egypt. In this tradition, each person is a human. We do not act to enrich ourselves, but because we, as shepherds of the world, care for nature, and we do this by seeing the miracles that is all around us, in the buzzing of the bee, and the rays through the water as it travels through fish and waves. In this tradition, we understand the light as the truth. We are true to ourselves, and to all around us. We can either choose the light of the moon, as Osiris or the light of the sun as Ra. The light of the moon to gently give our listeners a path to a better world. The light of the sun, to wield the might of the blazing sun, so that corruption is removed.

This is a lesson that is good to remember these days, when all are scrambling for a victory. The victor will be the true. Because the untrue will have been corrupted on his way to power.

The Middle East is changing rapidly, I hope that the lightbringers of all kind, will be able to be honest, and humble in the face of the misery they see, and act in the interest of humanity. As the great Heliopolitan sages decreed.

G-d bless the wisdom of the Egyptians.

In the world, right now, muslims in general, and Sunni muslims in particular, have received some incredibly bad press. It is as though, that all the negative stories that have been floating around in the mass social media, the right wing and on enlightening blogs suddenly come into focus, and people start saying; well maybe all the scarecrows were right.

I have been, and still am to some extent, scarecrow number one. From the beginning of my political career, I have enlightened people about the negative potential of Islam. Read the Koran, and you realize the depth of misery Islam can bring. But then again, it does not have to be like that. When the conquistadors were in South America, they did exactly the same as the IS, just in the name of Christianity.

There is a choice, you can either choose that verse, or the other verse.

Here, we have a faith with the potential of horror and murder, but as all other monotheistic religions founded by Abraham, we have the love option as well.

As of now, it seems to me, that Sunni islam is converging into two separate factions, the very renaissance oriented Sunni rebels, and the modern oriented Arab faction.

One wants to go back to the roots, the other to mix Islam with humanistic ideals. Egypt has gone down this path, Saud i Arabia is going down the path, and many other Arab nations do as well.

This is really the situation. As of now, I believe it is extremely important, that we fight one faction with intelligence and precision, and support the other faction with affection and open-mindedness.

One is our very dangerous and courageous enemy, the other our good friend.

G-d bless the friends we have, and the good deeds we can do when we are duly in understanding and dialogue.

When we entering another phase in the ongoing feud in the Middle East, we should always remember why we do this. I mean, we should always remember that we fight to win the peace, not to extradite judgement on anyone. If we think we are better or have a higher worth than everybody else, well this very thought, brings us to be the lowest of worths. Humility in the face of danger is paramount. Otherwise we misjudge the situation and take false decisions.

My good friend David and I, are working on a plan to realize the interfaith plans of Israel, to contribute to a bridge between all faiths.

This is how we ultimately win the peace, by true understanding, and by having a common ground to stand on.

This task will include the reach out for Muslims as well as Christians.

Peace is not won through military action alone, it is won through dialogue as well. But we need somewhere to meet, where all parts are respected.

G-d bless the will to understand and ultimately listen to one another.

Isil, or rather neo conservative antisemitic Sunni Muslims have gone on a rampage in Iraq. It is absolutely disgusting, and the level of inhumanity is over the top.

Should we engage? We have no choice, they are our dedicated enemies, they are going after us. As long as they have a stronghold with all the ressources they have secured, as long will they contribute to the calamity of the world.

At 9/11 we realized we had an enemy, but it is not until now we realize the depravity of that enemy. It was like when we engaged the nazis, we did not really know how depraved they were, until after we opened the gates of Treblinka and Auswitch.
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In the negotiations with Hamas and Islamic jihad. We should be absolutely realistic, analyze the leverage and aim for a deal on this basis. We have the upper hand, because we did show restraint in the final phase. Add to this a new set of alliances, and the Gazans have a very bad hand.

So let them come, be cool and get the best deal in the situation. This deal should be monitor able, be in place for many years, and leave the honor of Hamas and Islamic jihad intact.

G-d bless the peace.

Congrats! Mr. Barack Obama leader of the free world, a particular friend of mine, a valiant fighter for the good. Number one organizer in action, protector of the weak, and yes, then again. My good friend :). I would have made the congratulation yesterday, but my blog is hard pressed by all the visitors there. Good thing for my messages, but a bad thing for uploading new texts.

Anyway, friendships are hard to come by, and in international politics, it is also a kind of an alliance. But for me, I have no country to think about, it is real. Sometimes I realize that having friends over the internet that you never meet, is a stupid thing. I mean, how far have we come in this internet age, that your friends are someone you communicate with over the net, and you do not see.

But, Aristotle claims that, the best friendship are those you have with someone, because you, together have an ethical mission. You are friends in the service of good. I believe, my friendship with you Barack is one of those kinds. We are not perfect, and we have a truckloads of enemies, but at the end of the day, we do what we do to make a difference, to make a better world.

I hope we win, so far, the goals the first term have been met. The economy is in recovery. The second term goals of peace in the Middle East, seem, if you look at them from outside as far away. But if you look at the alignments within the Middle East, they are still good. There will be another fight with Isil, but we are good friends with all the rest.

I hope this will give you the victory you need in the second term.

Anyway, my friend. There is still hope, and we have not forsaken the democratic anti racist ideology of Change. We are still working, and we will continue until we are no more, or someone kills us. This is it, congratulations, may we have that energy to reach our final goals.

G-d bless you my friend, happy birthday. 🙂

The liberal part of Israel has changed. I read that Amos Oz actually argued for a certain defense. Because as he said, what if someone attacks you with his own child in his lap? This obviously is not an enemy you can reason with, the stupidity and the absurdity of this way of fighting is so far removed from a standard civilized way of doing things, that it just make sense to fight it. Everything else is sheer madness.

But there is a moral aspect to the defense of a civilized nation, and that is, if you do the same as the stupid adversary, he will have dragged you down on his own level.

This calls for a golden middle way. A stance where you defend yourself, but not with excessive means.

You restrain yourself from being dragged down, and you keep your goals clear, that is peace and security. We do not fight to crush out enemy, we fight to win the peace.

This new stand of the peaceniks will hopefully help the right, so that they will see, that we are a serious partner, and are realistic towards the challenges that confront Israel. After all, if we are united, we will stand. If we are divided we will fall.

G-d bless Israel.

Thank you, thank you, thank you mr. Benjamin Netanyahu. The dream of an Israel that will continue to inspire and bring peace to mankind still lives. I had given it up, but still there is hope.

I hear that the conservatives are all for fighting. This is understandable taking the sacrifices and tolls on the Israeli public into consideration. But, hopefully they will see, that a more careful, and more precise way of fighting will bring victory. At the end of the day, victory is all that matters. You will not be remembered for one or the other act in the war, but mostly on the result of the war. Hannibal won all the confrontations with Rome, but the Phoenician civilization is still not remembered while as Roman civilization is the one that has based all of today.

It will take time, and a prolonged conflict will take its toll. But in the end, the winning scenario will be if Hamas and the other Islamist organizations will stop their shelling of the Israeli public. This is all that it is about for Israel.

On a larger scale however, the fall out of the conflict will be determining the course of Europe. Your win, will, hopefully strengthen the rising criticism of the all out nazi conduct by Islamists here. We are in this together. If we save Israel, we safe the European continent as well.

Again, thank you. The western civilization, that Israel is a product of also. Just got a reprieve, a reprieve we will try to use to rebound.

We are yours indebted.

G-d bless Israel, and all it’s valiant fighters.

When we discuss the advent of the current crisis in Israel and related to its surroundings, we need to understand how war works in an international society.

Before the advent of the internet, you could not know what they thought in Israel if you lived in Iran, or the other way around. Today, you can just click on a newspaper or a blog, and you will know.

This calls for a renewal of tactics when it comes to war.

In the old paradigm, the Soviet Union were experts in manipulating the western media. It all started with the Vietnam war, and has been used ever since. How did the psycho ops team work their methods?

They did it, by presenting the media with stories that the media just could not resist. As the poor little girl that ran away from a napalm attack. This picture won the war for the Vietnamese.
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There was a certain point in history, when we went from being savages and turning into civilized citizens.

One of the most determining factors of this progress was the advent of writing, but politics, law, democracy, science, metaphysics. All these items of civilization items actually was invented at a certain time in specific places.

One of the great turning points was when the central temple societies ruled by clericacy lost its sway over the minions of Mesopotamia, and everything just fell apart.

At this point of history all just seemed like a whirlwind sucking up everything and just leaving behind destruction. The specific problem was state controlled farming. State controlled farming simply ruined all the arable land, due to salinization.

Some historian ask themselves, how could the destruction be so widely successive, and not just happen in small areas?

Because when the people loose faith in a political system, it implodes. This may be the answer to the riddle why the great Meso American civilizations that gave us the incredible pyramid structures just imploded. They lost faith.
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Concerning the abduction of the Israeli serviceman, one thing is the implication of the leverage the palestinians get, another thing is the push the Israeli side get from the action in terms of pro Israeli sentiment, a third thing is the strategical considerations.

First I think it is, as everything the Palestinians do, avoid of all ethics. It is disgusting. Secondly, they just gave us a deprive from the set backs we recently got from the ground invasion. Thirdly, we should not change tactics. Tech is still our best card.

We will win if we continue the assault, precisely, with tech and at the same time keep resources from flowing into Gaza.

They basically just handed us the victory, if we play our cards with skill.

Continue the demolition of the tunnels, and ferret them out of their hideaway with drones and Shin Bet.

In a few weeks they will probably get so desperate they hand us the victory with some stupid mistake.

G-d bless Israel.

Ok, I hear some rumors, that after the seize fire, a more prolonged and less agressive course will be conducted. Perhaps some of the reflection here regarding the situation and the strategic measures to be taken has helped sway the leaders of Israel.

Anyway, here are some added reflections.

Winston Churchill did not like Islam, in fact he was very much against it. But he had some insights, that I think could inspire us he said;
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Looking at the advent of religion, there is a certain mix of what we today call natural science and religion.

If we look at the genesis, there are traces of true natural science items in it. Maybe not in the biblical telling, but if you dig a little deeper, you realize, that the understanding of nature and metaphysics has always been a two sided coin.

Religion comes from Mesopotamia and Egypt. In these areas, natural science was invented, along most of what we call civilization today. And I think it was one of the losses of the dark ages that actually severed the connection between natural science and metaphysics.

Those acquainted with Plato will know this. It is not that open, but the point that G-d is intelligence, derives from Anaxagoras, a natural philosopher.

Since Plato was one of the founding metaphysicist of most religions, this is a clear link.

But also Abraham was, according to the cabbalists, a true metaphysician.

All in, to really boost religion, we need to rise the understanding of what G-d is. That includes putting him or it, into the frame of understanding we have already in our world.

We should be there when the physicists discuss big bang, multi dimensional universes and so on with our own interpretations.

This will hopefully boost the understanding of what and who we truly are.

G-d bless the will to understand.

Now, the first true causality of the Hamas/Palestinian war has been realized; Israel itself. Understood in the sense, that Israel is much more than just the save haven for Jews. It is also a political as well as a spiritual project.

Israel is, according to the covenant with spirit, the holy nation and is supposed to bring peace to mankind. This is basically the dream of Zionists. This is not going to work now. That is quite obvious. Perhaps after the war something will start again. But the reduced faith in Israel will take a long time to recuperate.

I off cause support the purpose of Israel as a safe haven for Jews, but I really believed that it could be both, obviously it cannot. It will remain a protection of Israelies, and not a peace project.

So what do we do, those of us who believe, that the realm of spirit should be realized here on the the earth? Those of us who dream about a raised consciousness, about mankind understanding that it is much more than just bodies, but that they are sparks of G-d living on earth?

Well, perhaps we did things in the wrong order. Perhaps we need religion to be stronger before we can realize its advent on earth. We need people to realize that G-d is not dead.

At least we can do this without the politicians of Israel, and we will continue on this course.

That means, raising the consciousness and understanding of us as human beings, with a spark of the spirit. That we are G-d. That love is the true being.

G-d bless the Israel we have lost, but will regain one way or the other.

Things are changing rapidly these days, from Israel, over Europe, to Russia and the US.

Often people do not see the greater picture, and therefor let me please give you my interpretation.

In Israel, things are really moving fast, but not in the right direction. I do not say this not to support, I do support, but to give you my honest interpretation.

When we were in the diaspora, since Israel seized to exist the first time, elaborate systems of survival was developed and it basically served us fine. One of the most exquisite examples of this was the fight of the Maccabees, and their victory and consequitive rise of Israel a second time. At that time we have illustrious leadership, and a beconning militia.

Over the time, a complex system of defense was evolved, giving Israel or the Jews one of the most efficient secret services, letting Jews know everything around the world.

We were experts in secrets, and were held together through a deep and very good faith.

Now, some of the qualities that held us together, actually works as deterrents. When you have a state, the secrecy and unity is not always good. One needs diplomacy to survive.

Here in Denmark, it is exactly the opposite. We have been a state for thousands of years, and survived even though we are a small state. Why? Because of an extreme ability when it comes to diplomacy. While Jews are extremely undiplomatic, Danes are far too diplomatic.

When you have a state, you need to use diplomacy to survive. This means having friends, supporting factions, reading the international game, so that you support the right side in a conflict.

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The entire international system is changing. The huge work for peace mr. Barack Obama and I have done, is not the way things are moving anymore. Signs of a catastrophic confrontation between the European states and al Queda and other Islamists organizations are appearing. Open al Queda rallies in London, open defiance of Jews in Germany by Islamist. Possible terror attacks in Norway.

I have a small dream I wish you to know about. I get these sometimes, and this one has haunted me the last few days.

I started with a conversation I had with a member of the Danish people’s party. He said, I do not want to do anything else, than giving people an entrance ticket top this show. Danish people is the right wing party of Denmark.

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When finding the tunnels, I would recommend using sonar, if it is not already in use. When finding something deeply underground, in other areas miners or just treasure hunters use a powerful audio admitting tool to map out what is below.

Should be possible in Israel as well.

Here is is a link to a company that sell these things:

http://www.socon.info/67-1-sonar-tools.html

Well, as I said from the beginning, the ground attack has spurred all the wrong things. Rising casualties, condemnation of the world, growing disparity between what the Israeli public wishes, and what is really attainable. Now the high command are fighting over who to blame, a true crisis sign.

First of all, why not do as I say? Obviously the Palestinians are really afraid of my skills, the obviously read what I write. So when the enemy realizes the true threat, that is the skill of the chosen one. Why not use it?

Secondly, why not let me in? I have a lot of knowledge of warfare, and have read all the classics of strategy. But the day to day choises of the mechanized war machine I have very little knowledge. To truly lead the IDF and shin bet, I need to know what they are thinking, and get the newest info. Right now I can only sipher so much from the media.

Thirdly, this is what I would do in this situation, based on the intel I do have. I would rap up the secret service infiltration of Gaza. Use only the IAF. Redraw the ground troops to behind the wall. Start finding the tunnels that are running under the wall from behind our own wall.

On one hand we need to satisfy the UN and mr. Barack Obama. We do that by minimizing the causalities done by ground troops. Secondly we need to satisfy the Israeli public and their demand for security. We do that by finding the tunnels that are actually a threat, and then taking out the rockets by drones or the IAF.

There is off cause the international game we do not know much about, and there is a risk of a folding on the Israeli side. But we would have to see how the international scene would react on these actions.

G-d bless Israel.

Below is a video that covers the american war on Al-queda using drones. There are a lot of diplomatic and ethical issues to be addressed, but there is no doubt the drones are the future of weaponry.

How to adopt it to tunnel warfare? Well to me it seems quite easy to equip some of those small quadro copters with a small but lethal payload. Much cheaper than regular army infantry, a technology our opponents will never truly master, because it requires a lot of geekyness, and a tool we can develop on.

There are already small drones called switchblades to be used by infantry, these could be used. But these will not work in tunnelwarfare.

Anyway, drones are game changers, and it could just turn around the game in Gaza.

http://youtu.be/scEqMRNM7xw

G-d bless the will to persevere.

Ok, I think the high command of israelian forces have realized, that going on as what we have done, is not working. Here are some reflections.

First of all, in warfare, the winner is the part with the best strategy it is not always about having the best gear of soldiers, you can turn a very bad situation into a good situation simply by using your gear better.

This we saw in Stalingrad, where the soviets finally beat the Germans. The Germans were much better equipped, had better soldiers, were technically much more advanced, but the Russians were using the terrain to their advantage, sacrificing soldiers at a terrible rate, and digging in on very good defensive positions. Sometimes the Russian soldiers did not even have a gun when they went into the fight. But it did not matter, because often they won over the Germans because the Germans simply could not stomach killing so many people.

So a disadvantage went into an advantage. The superiority in gear became an inferiority, because war is not just about killing people, it is about winning the initiative, having the stomach to fight on and so on.

The same applies for this situation in Gaza. Here the Palestinians are far inferior in terms of intelligence, logistics, manpower and so on, but they are ready to sacrifice themselves, and they are using their defensive position very intelligently.

So instead of redoing the battle of Stalingrad, we need to rethink strategies.

So, what are our weaknesses; we cannot stomach too many casualties, and we are in a very difficult terrain, where the enemy had really dug in.

What does this call for? A siege strategy. In effect we are trying to storm a town. Not an open land, so we need to think in terms of staying ahead of our enemy in a slow but unrelenting manner.

So, the equipment we have are basically developed in the First and Second World War. Especially the First World War saw a lot of first class innovation, the tank was an idea of that time, the helicopter and warplane a result of the second.

These wars were mainly trench warfares, where enormous armies were fighting over open land. So the machines are made for that; big scale confrontation. There were millions of soldiers in those wars.

This is basically why they are so impotent in siege warfare. They were not made for it.

This is why the new methods of fighting is slowly being developed; to meet the demands of the new strategical situation. Obama has already been using it for a while, and it is working.

So far, the robotic warfare is still very much in its infancy, so it is basically just hit and run jobs. You gather some intelligence, and you send a hellfire missile to do the job.

But new developments demand new tactics. Take another example. The Germans were, among other things, innovative in marine war. They developed a new type of boat, the U boat, or rather the submarine.

In the beginning they worked in teams, called wolf packs. The idea was to set up a squadron of ten versatile boats, coordinate, and then sink the enemy ships.

This worked very well in the beginning of the war, until the Brits got the radar.

But the wolf pack strategy is a good strategy to use with the new drones. Setup squadrons of drone controllers, and let them work in coordination.

This could be used in the tunnel warfare, instead of risking lifes, send in the drones!

This is not to minimize the importance of special services, we need feet and ears on the ground. But instead of risking a lot of men, risk a lot of drones.
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The current situation in Gaza is like this; the israelian side is in want of time, the Palestinians can wait forever. The objective; to eliminate the threat of rockets firing has not been met. The objective of suppressing Hamas is not a viable objective, as of now they are much stronger than when they started, since I did isolate them politically, but due to headstrong and stupid actions by Israel they have gained ground again, talk about work wasted.

They are inflicting a serious defeat on not only Israel but the entire western bloque.

The Americans cannot wait that much longer, because if Iran is lost, and serious signs are appearing for that, the entire peace project involving Iran will be of naught. Four years of diligent work by Obama and I wasted. Another Ahmadinejad might appear, and there we go again.

So basically, what is it the leaders of Israel want? To eliminate Hamas? Well since half of its organization is not in Gaza, that objective is not possible to obtain. Is it eliminating the ability to fire rockets? Well, perhaps a better strategy than eliminating tunnels should be devised, after all the tunnels are not firing rockets. The rockets are hidden in numerous other places than the tunnels.

Perhaps it was just about trampling on Hamas in the vain hope they would somehow cave in and disappear. Well, since Hamas is not just an organization in Gaza or more detailed strategy should be devised.

All in all, there is very little time left, Israel cannot afford much more offensive action, and therefor a truce should be welcomed. But it will be very difficult to realize that truce, because Hamas can only benefit from prolonging it.

Well, years of work wasted, just because someone felt the urge to “do something”.

Next time, perhaps a little more thinking should go into the planning than just jumping on the best idea that appeared in the stressful sound of sirens.

G-d bless the wise.

The protective edge mission have come into its second week, and it has, more or less, happened as I said it would. The political capital of Israel is going down the drain, our leverage over Hamas is being fastly depleted, and the almost gone Islamist movement is actually gaining steam again. The Hamas/Muslim brotherhood/Quatar wing is gaining strength from being almost defeated, and even Iran is considering leaving its path for peace, leaving the entire project for peace that I and Obama worked for in danger.

First it was Kerry who thought he could make his own mark on the Middle East, doing more damage than good, and now it is Netanyahu who has the same ambition. Both processes are going in exactly the opposite direction of what it is supposed to. Kerry made more chaos, Netanyahu is endangering Israel not keeping it safe.

The goals of the protective edge is shifting all the time, because it was not seriously planned. If you want to deplete the ability of Hamas to fire rockets, you should not go in from the ground, because then you actually loose the ability to hit the rockets, Hamas knows where you are, and can just move the rockets somewhere else. They are fighting guerrilla style, so they are good at using the terrain to there advantage.
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The Third World War have begun. Rockets over Israel, repercussions in Europe, antisemitism going full scale crazy in France, terror attacks in Norway. We are all hit by the rise and desperate fight of the Islamists. It is as though they sense their downfall, and have decided to go down in a burning blitz.

Some good things have come out of the chaos in Palestine, or whatever you call it. The masks are falling, and Muslims adherent to the foul teachings of Qutb are rioting and showing that it is not just about Israel of Zionism, it is Jews. They hate, with all of the benign and distrustful souls, just hate the Jews. We cannot wear of stars of David, we cannot wear our kippas, we are hunted through the streets, our temples are sought desecrated. They want to hurt us.

So the action in Gaza have shown to the world who they really are. As in Egypt after the fall of the Muslim brotherhood.
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It is over time for dialogue to commence in Ukraine. What are we waiting for. As the situation stands, there is an opening by the European community to enhance and develop peace talks. There is an inherent understanding by all, that there should not be an escalation, and now some wise and intelligent leader should craft a compromise. It should reflect the interests of both sides, and it should be felt fine by both sides. Perhaps a solution where Lugansk and Donetsk have a range of rights within the overall frame of the state of Ukraine. This would reflect the true power of all represented, and be an honorable solution for all.

I call upon all responsible leaders to be fair and just. Do not think so much about your own needs, but about the needs of the citizens of Ukraine.

Decisive action should be commenced, true leadership should be shown, all in the interest of peace.

G-d bless the will of the humble citizens as the are put in terrible harms way.

I suppose progress is two steps forward and one backwards. A few months ago everything just seemed rosy, and world peace was actually at hand, or rather, after the shift of American push policy towards the palestinians and the israeli, things have turned for the worse. Well I suppose the Ukraine conflict is also a spoke in the wheel. Russia is down in positive ratings, now Israel is down in ratings. Luckily the Vatican state is still running high, as well as the US.

Anyway, this calls for reflection, are we really heading for another cold war scenario? Or are these things just bumps on the road?

First of all, if we look at the political alignment, that defines who are really enemies, the alignment does not call for another cold war. Russia is not anymore the communist behemoth, but is actually trying to find its own roots, and rekindle its glory. So the antagonism does not dig that deep.

If we look at the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, it has changed in character, this conflict used to be a proxy war between the West and East. But as we speak, it is truly just a local war, but it has tremendous and devastating potential.

The new antagonism is between the world and what I have defined as islamism. Or rather it is between a renaissance Islam and the rest of the word. Islamist truly believe that Islam will rule the world.

This is only a part of Islam, and does not include all of the Muslim world. Recently the major Muslim states have drawn away from it, and that was actually the basic crux around which the first part of Mr. Barack Obamas presidency revolved. We tried to push back the radical version of Islam, and actually did it by pushing back Ahmadinejad, and supporting Mr. Al-Sisi. This gave a whole new positive progression within the Muslim world, and actually hope for progress both spiritual as well as materially.

There is only one ager dabei; the islamists are still here, and obviously they are not just going away.

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In Ukraine we are putting pressure on the wrong parties. In the west we try to put pressure of Putin, and on the east we are trying to put pressure on the Ukraine government, and as Ukraine is supported mainly by EU and the US, the pressure is basically put on they west.

The fight is absolutely meaningless, and the pressure will not go anywhere. No one wants to start a Third World War now when people have started thinking, so the obvious conclusion is not to put pressure for this to happen, but to put pressure on our allies for them to go to the negotiation table.

The US needs to realize, that the Second World War and First World War is still so much in the imaginations of Europeans, that we will simply not enter another war. So we cannot be persuaded to pressure Putin. It will not happen.

The conflict will continue to exist until either one side has won, or a comprise is found.

Why not try the compromise? Is this not what peacemaking is about?

Through dialogue, find a way to solve the problems?

At least, this would be an ethical path to pursue.

G-d bless the will to find a way.

If we look at the broad picture of the Middle East right now, there are tremendous work for the peacemakers, and some of the less enlightened keep on wrangling with their destiny in the material world. The gates of paradise are closing in on them as each minute goes. Lifes are thrown away without any sense, and the mechanics of tit for tat is ripe with bounty.

But, behind the scenes true missionaries for peace awaits. In general all who truly believe in Abraham and his descendants heed his ideas and work with diligence for peace. The makings of a new era is abound, and we will seize this opportunity with or without the help of the leaders of specific countries.

It is all about diplomacy. Some say that the pen is weaker than the sword, some say that the pen is stronger than the sword, but it will come to a realization some day.

We will continue the dream of Abraham and Moses, we will not accept the luring of the material world, and we will realize the advent of religion.

There are good things happening, and bad things, but it all comes to will of spirit, are we on his side, or are we against him? Do we think too much on our own needs or do we share and realize the unbound feeling of connection.

I do realize, that we have to protect ourselves against the warriors of darkness, but to what extent, to the extent that it just does not make any sense, especially if there are more wise paths to chose.

The reign of G-d cannot be stopped now, this is my feeling, no matter how much the leaders try to fight it.

This is just a dream, but that dream has a hold in many people of different religion, so that one day man will live in peace, without the need to destroy each other.

One day, mankind will unite as one, and shed the need to war and destroy, and if we realize that dream, we are truly the heirs to Adam, and not to Eve.

G-d bless the will to see clearly in this terrible, destructive situation.

To counter the threat of Hamas, we need to have a strategy. Without a strategy, there will be no victory, with a well devised strategy, we will win.

Let us try to recap the current situation, and discuss the strategic advantages and disadvantages of the situation.

The current strategy of invasion and destruction of tunnels and so on is basically what you in Clausewitz terms would call a French Revolution scenario. Napoleon used fear to subdue his opponents, and he won his wars in that way.

So again, we are talking psychology, and use of fear tactics. In order for this to work, it really has to be scary, and target the most vulnerable parts of the enemy.

Are we doing that? No, we are going after specific tunnel openings and trying to find a way to infiltrate Gaza. Ok, seen from a strictly operational perspective this may make some sense, but as a strategy, it is totally stupid. Either you use fear tactics to your advantage, or you do not. Right now we are doing something in the middle. It will not work.

If we look at the past, this is EXACTLY the lesson we can learn, in the war with Hezbollah and other past wars with Hamas or the PLO, we have focused on the material game, having not the slightest clue about the psychological game, and as a very natural consequence we lost. Maybe not in the ground game, but the image or perception of Israel was dragged through the mud over and over again. So we lost the psychological game.

I have supported Israel staunchly for some time now, and consequently the victories I have had, as the initiation of the peace talks with Iran, the rise of Sisi is rightfully put at the feet of Israel. So Israel has dragged itself up from the very deep hole it has dug for itself in the conflicts with the Palestinians.

Well, you can go on digging deep holes for Israel, or you might discuss the idea of changing tactics.

So, I advised a precise hard hitting strategy that involved only the IAF and the clandestine operations. Why? Well first of all, because it will put Hamas at a serious disadvantage. They need the pictures to win the psychological war. But if they never know when or where we hit, they cannot construct all the killings of their own children.

The strategy has been used to a great efficiency by Obama for some time. The constant search for leaders of Taliban and other Islamist insurgents has really payed off.

So what are the reflections? First of all tech has always been the edge of western culture. First it was the Viking vessels, then the cannons, then the machine gun, then the flying fighter bomber.

So to use this advantage, we need to use the newest tech. The newest tech are the robots. This does not include no action by shin bet, on contrary, it should be used as a complementary to shin bet.

But the good thing about using spooks combined with high tech precision targeting, is the fact, that the media will not be feeded with pictures.

Then there is another reflection. When Alexander the Great beat Darius the Persian prince, he did it with 44 thousand grunts against 3 hundred thousand enemy fighters, or even more.

How did he do that? By using the weaknesses of the enemy against themselves. As Hamas, the Persians were a motley crue of soldiers gathered at the occasion. I was only held together through a strong dictation by the prince. This was acknowledged by Alexander, so he went for the prince, and routed him. When the prince was routed, the army fell to pieces.
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The situation in Ukraine is slowly turning ugly again. Please do not do the same mistake as Israel have just been done, and rush into another senseless fight. Why do we fight? Is it to win? To gain territory? To entrust the public with a sense of justice of security? There is no winning scenario in Ukraine. If the fighting continues, it will just lead to more misery and reduce the peace of the world.

We therefor need to start the talking, Ukraine needs to crawl down from its ultimate demands, and initiate the discussion about a solution.

If we just continue on this course, well there will be nothing more to fight over because people will be dead or the land you are fighting over will be desolate.

Start discussing the endgame, what is it you want. Just revenging will not lead to any solution, and remember you are all Slavs, so why do you fight?

G-d bless a peaceful solution.

Ok, to understand the current strategical situation, please let me explain some of the basics of what I have been teaching over the last five years and has changed the basics of warfare.

Soviet strategy was far beyond western warfare. Despite being seriously outnumbered and extremely weak when it came to economics, Russia, and the soviets in general managed to conduct at very, very efficient war against the west. Something we still have not totally recovered from.

What did they do? They used, unscrupulously, the new science of psychology. When they wanted to turn a country, a set of very precisely defined stages was conducted. First they used the cultural and political life to demoralize the target. Think the anti atomic bomb movement for instance, what was that good for. The soviets of cause.

Then they infiltrated media in a very cunning way, used communist and socialist groups to demoralize the target country, by assigning them specific tasks, and supporting any movements that was in their favor.

One of the great successes of the Soviet Union was to garner a tremendous in country resistance against the Vietnam war. So spooks in the US worked against their own countries. Thereby giving the Vietnamese an easy victory. They fought very well, but had it not been for the psychological mind games KGB played with the American public, they would have lost.

So, this is the point, it is all about mind games for the soviets.

Enter Hamas, who were very well tought by KGB, they used to be an asset of KGB, and there you have it. Another pawn playing mind games.
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If we do not control the onslaught of IDF, we will be at the rear position. Hamas will only need one good picture, and the entire war effort will be theirs. To really beat an enemy, you need to understand how they think. Hamas are Cold War fighters. They fight in soviet style. That is manipulation with media, trying to demoralize the enemy. So if Israel just see it as a territorial war with aim to reduce the fighting power of Hamas, we are only looking at a small part of the scheme.

It is all about media.

Add to this the fact that Hamas power is not solely embedded in Gaza, fighting them only there will not really help. We need to see it in a much broader perspective.

As the situation stands, it is like this. The Arabs are tired of Hamas, they wish for peace and process. The wise Persians wish for peace, and the peace process to succeed, so much is invested. Then there is the Americans, the Russians, all the churches and not to mention me.

So the entire system is ready for peace, and this is the problem for Hamas and for Isil. They need chaos.

In the past Israel was stopped in its progress, why. Because of lack of luck in the fight in the media.

So we need to keep an eye on that fight. If we get just one bad picture it is over. And look at it this way. If we win the battle in the media, the Arabs will stop funding Hamas, and the. They are gone!

Without too much bloodshed we can stop Hamas. But if we get involved I the tit for tat revenge system, we loose all the progress we ha e made. It took us years to get this far, and everything is balancing on the very, very sharp edge of a knife. Be careful, and please instead of just using the might of your arm, use that sling of David. Because only with the sling can we win.

G-d bless the beautiful dream of Yesrael.

What will happen is, more or less like this;  after a few days with rising civilian casualties, the positive support for Israel that we did make after we commenced a careful bombs only campaign will falter. It will take two to three days. What will be the determining factor will be the amounts of civilian casualties. So the Palestinians will do everything they can to photoshop, put a horde of small girls in front of us and so on. Eventually they will get their picture, and it will turn the tide.

Remember it is about the moral high ground. We are supposed to hold that.

If and when that happens. We will lose. If we lose, it will be a major setback for the entire effort against Islamism. I will also lead to demoralization, the shame of the current presidency, and a weaker voice for the lightbringers.

If we pull out after a few scores, it will show that we can show restraint. This will give us the necessary time to rebuilt the confidence lost in the current ground offensive.

It is a contest on ethics, and when we lose the moral high ground, we lose the ground game.

The material world is like this; it will call its siren song to us, and if we heed it, we will be sucked into the maw. Right now it is sucking us in, and if we do not pull out, we will be lost in it for a long, long time. We have to stay afloat, and be sharp on this otherwise we will not reach our destination.

G-d bless the will to be patient.

I see that IDF have entered Gaza. That is a huge mistake. Hamas looks for only one thing. What they call a “victory picture”. That is a picture where some Israeli can be depicted as a tyrant. Preferably something involving a small girl.

With all the troops on ground, this possibility has just risen tremendously. If we do not pull the troops back, we will loose, because they will get their picture.

So this is my advice, stay calm. Be careful, do not rush, otherwise we will lose.

G-d bless the will of the patient.

I am a sailor. Not one of those ancient sailors, who roamed the sevens seas with death and glory as their followers, but just a normal seaman with a small vessel. We do a little competition in it, and then we go on summer holiday, me and the smallish family.

Yesterday was a very cool, but rough day. I ventured over a small strait called Kattegat, and in my 23 footer, it was a bit of a rough ride with waves as tall as my eyesight, and a bit bobbing up and dawn. It made me think though.

When you sail, especially in a small boat, and the riding is rough, you feel the wrath of nature. If you happen to fall over the boat, and that is pretty much an option, you will die a slow death of cooling down.

So you sit there with your life in your own hands, and if you do not control your boat, you will die.

This is a lesson that has been lost on us after we left the boats. The wrath of the ocean, the smallishness of our being. It brings a certain humility to be cast from here to there, and you start to feel the pain in your arm from tearing at the steering wheel over and over again, as you surf up and down the waves.

When you are out there on the sea, you really long for home. But to get there you have to be patient. There are no easy fixes, no fast tracking, no cheating. You have to look at your gear, and just get on with it.
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I am really sorry about the situation in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army seems to have grown absolutely callous and unrealistic on their power. The only reason why Putin has not fought them down, is because he is responsible as a world power. It is extremely painful for the Russian patriots to see their brethren suffering as they do.

Again, let us be reasonable, let he peacetalks start, do not just use your might, but be honest towards your goals.

I really advice the Americans to look at Russia, and see their actions for what they are; responsible, honest and worthy a true world power.

Putin can be reasoned with and talked with, please do that, he is a good man, and can be dealt with on a good basis.

G-d bless the wise and the true.

We are entering another phase of the ongoing feud with the so called Palestinians. First they thought they had us, and could use the normal methods of attack and then manipulate the media to their advantage.

Not this time, the world is different, and their ideology is not that popular anymore. The shift from socialism to Islamism is not that wise, if you want to keep the sympathy of the world.

So Egypt proposed a truce, that was not met, and now Hamas is trying a new negotiation on better terms for Hamas.

Well there is one aber dabei. The leverage Hamas used to have has diminished considerably, and therefor the terms should reflect this.

Be real, if Hamas want a truce, well ok, we can have that, but it should at least be a truce that reflect the situation.

Secondly, I would advise Israel to take it easy. The negation situation is to our advantage, and we do not therefor need to haste.

The end result should be a truce that will, truly give peace, not just some temporary stop in the fighting. So to be realistic, this would include some kind of termination of the power of Hamas. It can either be done by eliminating their infrastructure, or it can be done by making a deal.

But the wise waits for the right result. Do not shake on the hand, and acts with providence at exactly the right time.

G-d bless those who are wise and patient.

I remember reading Hegel. Hegel is the predecessor of the current socialist paradigm, that practically rules the world. (Marx saw himself as a follower and a rebel towards Hegel). Hegel has this one little piece of light that shone through one of his books. He said that G-d would open the gates of heaven and a beam of light would descend upon the nation of Germany. Well, after a long walk in the dark, finally this beam has once again illuminated Germany. Lost in the dark after the second world war, antisemitism, the abuse of all that was German in way by Hitler. Then through a long walk after the war, and now, with all the traditional values it has won the world cup.

Germany is a mix of Danish culture, Christian/Jewish culture and Roman culture. The discipline setup by the Romans, is mixed with the positive Christian culture, and then as a final ingredient the warrior culture of Denmark is the basis.

You could see this in the field. The discipled manschaft was never broken and rarely under true pressure. The team worked as a team, and really seem to like each other. But finally, the krieger, Bastian Schweinsteiger, arose and straight-backed and mighty, defended the colors of his tribe.

At the other hand, Argentina was extremely good, but at a day where the individual does not live up to his full potential it all flounders. At the other hand, it was well fought by the glorious Argentinians, and may they arise again with their pride intact.

Finally, I believe that Brazil will acknowledge after the world cup, that being a host is not about winning, it is the opposite, it is about being a good host. Showing the qualities of a country. Brazil has done exactly that. Given the world the feeling of a football crazy nation, supporting the all the guests with warmth and actually precision and order. This calls for an international appraise.

G-d bless you all, will you all prosper in the light of the maker.

We are entering a more peaceful phase of the war between Israel and Hamas. In the ancient times when Israel was first ejected and stood tall, there were numerous wars with the surrounding tribes and empires. When Israel was at its greatest under David, it understood and fought the wars to its benefit. This was a commandment that came directly from Moses, who dreamed of a monotheistic nation, under the rule of G-d. This initiation of monotheism, is therefor not all liberal, but somewhere in between, because David and Moses were also great believers in justice and love.

To really connect to the spirit of Israel as it stood the first time, we need to find that balance between at one hand defense of Israel and all it’s values, and at the other hand a firm understanding of justice and love in warfare.

David defeated Goliath, and I believe we all see the beauty in that, why? Because it underscores a basic paradigm of Davidian prowess. He was at his best when he was fighting against innumerable odds. Why? Because there is absolutely nothing wrong in fighting against a supreme enemy who wants to defeat you with his might. It forced David to use skill and intelligence. The same he did when he was excommunicated into the desert and came back to Israel with a motley crue of fighters and won the day for Israel again.

So what are the teaching of this? First of all, David fought not with superior numbers he fought with courage and skill. He sought the solution that would use his superior skill (using a sling at close range to hit an eye is almost impossible). He fought with audacity, not worrying too much about his own safety.
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One of the very overlooked tradegies of the current development of the Isil held parts of Syria, is the destruction of ancient relics. So far Isil have only destroyed Iranian holy sites, and not the older and, to the east and west, more significant objects.

Think about it as the birth cradle of democracy, religion, natural science, rule of law, writing in fact most of what we today see as the foundation of our own culture. It was invented here. First in the town of Eridu (Eden in the bible) and then Ur and Babylon.

The rule of law for example was invented in its modern form by the king Hammurabi of Babylon.

Will Isil respect these relics, that are, by all means also a part of their own history, or will they destroy it.

If they do, we are even more compelled to stop them. It would simply but an outrage, and a loss for all of humanity in the future.

G-d bless the protection of ancient culture.

When people look upon Scandinavia, they are perhaps in two minds. Who are the Scandinavians really supporting; the free democratic world, or the caliphatists of the Muslim brotherhood and al-Queda?

Well to answer that question one has to understand the history of the said countries to see the history in a modern context.

Scandinavia is not filled with secular peaceful democracies, on the contrary it is filled with very tyrannical governments who use their powers in a manner not suited for democracy.

One of the basic rules of a democracy is the rule of not using propaganda on the constituency. Ideally the citizens will in a free rational, democratic dialogue reach a conclusion on a given subject.

All of the Scandinavian states use white ops, grey ops and even black ops sometimes.

The discussion is steered over to subjects that will not harm the central powers, and if there is a threat to the central power, it will use media to defame and ostracize the given person. All in all a classical socialist dictatorship. Not as violent as the soviet under Stalin. But with the same methods.

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Now, the bombs are raining down on both Palestinians and Israelies. Both are we trapped in our own self understanding. We as Israelies should defend ourselves, and always stay calm and focused on our path. But we should never succumb to the level of idiocy that is defined by seeing our enemies as evil.

There is evil, but not always as we think it is. Evil is egoism and selfishness. This is not the case with the Palestinians, they are quite sacrificing, their goals are just different, and we are just a tool they use to obtain their goals. They hate us, but they hate us, because it brings them allies and resources. You could say it is a kind of professional hate. Something all other antisemites can hook onto.

But basically they are dreaming their dreams too, and their dreams are getting further and further away. This is why they are so desperate. They dream of the eternal caliphate, and are revolutionaries. But their dream is bursting. Their plot is seen through, and they are getting desperate.
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