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.
When we pray, we wish to be closer to the spirit. But why do we actually do that? Is it just to be close, or is there another reason. To understand this, we need to understand the motives of spirit. Spirit wants us to be closer to it. To get past all the hardships and all the difficulties in the world. But spirit cannot move things physically in the world, it can only communicate with us to our benefit.
So, what we need to do, is to use spirit, as spirit intends. It can help us, because it is superior in one area we are not; intelligence. Spirit is intelligence, and with the help of this source of extreme ability, we can overcome difficulties normally not easily overcome. This is where miracles comes into play.
Spirit will tell us the path we should take to get closer to it, and if we are able to understand this, we have a possibility to make a better life.
This is why I think prayer is such an important thing, or meditation. Because we have there an opportunity to reconnect to our own source, and steer away from indulgence and injustice.
G-d bless the wisdom of prayer.
When we want to reach the heaven on earth, or rather the celestial realm from the vantage point of our encapsulated souls, we need to understand how to do this.
When we are put into this world, we are totally isolated. Therefore we are totally on our own needs and wants. This evolves slowly for most of us, at a certain time, usually at the age of adulthood, we realize, that we are not alone in this world, and we need to share our belongings and our wealth with other.
Why is this, is it because we need a better standing in the community? Is it because we need a higher profit from our investment? No, the answer is actually in a way simplest, and yet totally profound.
We do it, because we need to emulate the conditions we knew from before we were born, from the time when we were one with the celestial community.
Some of the first Egyptians priests they shaved their heads and went into absolute sharing with their fellow priests, here they emulated the celestial realm all they could. Why? Because they wanted to be one with the intelligence we come from.
This we as humanity have enterited, we want to be one with the creator.
Now, how do we do that? In the world there is what we believe as good and evil. Why are they there? It is a guide to reach the celestial realm. Suffering is in fact not being able to reach from where we were before. Solitude is a feeling of being disconnected from other living beings, dying is the feeling of leaving the community.
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It is almost impossible to make peace in the Middle East. War has been there since the dawn of time, so why should it be any different now?
Therefore we need a plan to make it even it slightly possible to make that goal attainable.
What are we dealing with? We are dealing with the home of three major religions, all the controversy of territorial dispute over a heritage we all share.
In order to share this heritage, we need a common platform, a theoretical basis we all share, if we do this, we have somewhere we can meet.
This is really the basis of the peace negotiations. The process of constructing a superstructure, or rather a shared basis we all can draw on, from each of our religious perspective. It should not be a controlling superstructure, but a pool of ideas and shared beliefs, designed to make a solid frame we can share to understand each other.
This is really the project right now.
It seems to me, that there is a common motivation for this process now. From Judaism, over Christianity to Islam, all religions realize, that this is now, if we want to boost the role of religion in the world. Already we have come far, in all the three religions, but we can reach the goal of total realization of all the basic tenants of religion, if we continue over this course. It is attainable within our lifespan. After that, we will have something for future generations to refer to.
G-d bless the will to regain strength in the world of pure and beautiful religion.
When we talk about a renewed progress in the Middle East peace process, we need to know what really kept that mojo running in the first phase of the mr. Barack Obamas presidency, well after reflecting quite a bit about it, and reading first class theory about it, I realized where it came from, it came from change.
What is change. Well your can look at it from many different angles, one is the Alinsky angle, one is the spiritual angle.
According to the spiritual angle change is going away from the material world and all it’s demands and entering a spiritual and ethical world.
In other words. We need to see the world as it is. We are, in the day to day living embroiled in the fights we have to keep our material belongings for ourselves. If we live without justice, this fight ends up in the rule of the strong, and what we call the rule of the jungle.
In this area rests the devil. Sometimes we need to fight it.
Change however, is to let go of the material world, and enter the world where people are good, and we treat each other with kindness, mercy and love.
These two world are in a constant fight, and as Jews, I think it is wise, if we are to put forth a good example, and be the chosen people, to realize the work of the devil, fight it, but keep up the evolution of Change.
Change is a continuous process, that will never end. World peace is an ultimate goal, and we will reach it eventually, but until then, we need to struggle and push the process, millimeter by millimeter.
There will be setbacks, there will be wars, there will be suffering. But we need to give mankind hope for the future, so that they know, that it is possible to make a world, where we actually life side by side in peace.
It’s a mental progress, not a physical progress we are talking about, when we talk about peacemaking.
G-d bless the will to make peace.
When we discuss the advent of peace in the Middle East, everybody agrees it is a good idea, but nobody knows how to reach it.
There are good signs, and still the alignment is right, but we need to start from scratch again after the botched attempt by mr. Kerry. Sorry John, but do not give up, we still have a chance.
How do we start again? By understanding why it failed in the first place, and then realize a theoretical and practical discussion on the methods and the aims of a new round of peace reflection.
We need to really understand how to obtain that goal.
So, I believe, it is time for reflection now. We need to come up with new ideas and new solutions to reach that goal.
G-d bless the will to relive and regain strength.
In these very turbulent days in Europe, the question is, where is Europe heading?
On a political level, there are many different currents and many wishes for the future. As a good sign, we see that the will of the people is more and more determinant in the affairs of politics. This is, for me, and all who love freedom and democracy, a good thing.
But, that is not the basic question, the question is; what are we working towards. The answer is really simple; we work towards a strengthening of European identity and organization. We need the institutions to work again, and we need European citizens in all their different Nations to be proud of themselves again and serve the interest of international post world war peace making.
We need to be proud, but we need to stop the empirical drive.
On one hand, there is the obvious ethical reasons for a full stop of empire dreams, at the other hand, it is simply not viable anymore. It will not work.
We lost the faith in ourselves after the loss of the hegemony of the world. Now we need to find a new and less conspicuous role, but in a sense perhaps a stronger role. Where we are the good guys, the strong example, the donors and the givers and helpers.
We have lost much of the political credit in the empire building phase, and we can simply not afford to lose anymore credit, worldwide, we need to gain credit by being the helpers and the givers.
G-d bless the will to relive our own pride, but in a new form based the most illuminative of virtues.
The eastern part of Ukraine is in turmoil, and the situation might get out of control.
I really urge parts in the conflict to get it right this time, and not just blunder around pointing fingers.
Another misstep, another situation getting out of control, and we might just end up in global war. These are the stakes.
It is not a free for all, not control or no consequence situation anymore, this is dearly serious.
Looking at the situation, there is the will of the Russians in Ukraine. They have a right to decide for themselves.
If the situation spins on, the pressure on mr. Putin can get so hard, that he has to act, and then the reaction of the NATO can be to fight back.
Therefor, please, use diplomatic channels, try to listen to each other. But most serious of all. Think about this from the perspective of the citizens, if they want to be a part of Russia, it is their call.
We as leaders of the world, are not in our true right to choose for them. They have the right to decide for themselves.
So, please, consider a peaceful solution to the problems, get to the negotiation tables, and find a way out.
G-d bless a will to listen and negotiate.
When we look at the peace negotiations in the Middle East, one thing is for certain. There is no real direction of it right now, there is no “raison d´etre”.
We need to understand the greater scheme, otherwise, it is just another attempt to do something without really knowing why.
The Middle East is the cradle of modern civilization. It started in the fertile crescent, with cities as Ur, Babylon, Eridu, and it spread, over classical Greece, to the rest of the world.
This is why the birth of religion is in the Middle East, this is truly something to be proud of.
Today most people in the world see the Middle East as something uncontrollable and chaotic, and do not see it for what it really is; the cradle of civilization.
This is what the peaceprocces is basically about; turning the conception of the Middle East, so that people will see it for what it really is; a place of ingenuity, progress and skill.
How do we do this; by going back to the point of departure. By really understanding the roots of Middle East thinking. If we do this, the progress can reinitiate.
Most Nations have each their traditions, and it is a matter of using that basis to reinvent each of those Nations to their best.
If we can get the negation en route, and I can have the necessary support, we can do this.
I am not the one who will invent the principles, I am just the runner. I deliver the principles to the countries, they themselves have had. To make those amazing cultures come into life again.
They are so beautiful. The vast dominions of the pharaoh, the urge of Mesopotamia, the skill of the Zoroastrians, the exquisite poetry of the Arabs.
These quintessential qualities, nurtured and presented to the world, will be enough to regain that respect.
G-d bless the will to regain stature in the eyes of the world.
When we look at the peace process in the Middle East, we need to hark back to the first tenure of mr. Barack Obama to understand the full breath of the process.
Barack and I hooked up in the beginning of his president period, I was a runt and a revolutionary, and Barack was the new president of the United States of America. A fit cooperation, and in a sense beautiful. That a world power can become revolutionary in its mature state. But America really needed it, because it needed a boost in the basic sense of ideology. So we worked on spreading democracy, and we did get a long way in the Middle East, but we also made a lot of mistakes. But all in all, the world is a better place today than when we started.
Then the late pope his eminence Benedict XVI also made his mark, and proposed a fight for peace. I believe this mission connected well with what we tried in the Arab spring, we wanted democracy, but it should end up in a more peaceful world, not less peaceful.
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To really make peace in the Middle East, one has to understand the undercurrents of international politics. We are moving away from a post cold war situation, to a conservative world.
Conservatism is on the rise everywhere on the globe; USA, Russia, France, Germany, Israel, England, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Latin America. Even Communist China to a certain degree.
This is why the tradition of the Oslo accord cannot be used in the peacemaking. Using a cold war process in a conservative spring is not going to work.
We need to meet the challenge in the new world framework.
That is why I have proposed the peace solution to be conducted between the leaders of the religious world. The priests, the rabbis and the imams.
Because in a conservative world, the leaders are the men of G-d.
To make peace in the Middle East, the cradle of all religion, we need to do it now, in the interest not of this world, but the world beyond.
We need this peace to be made in the word of G-d, not in the interest of mundane matter and personal interest. But in the interest of spirit.
Spirit does not have borders, it is in total communion. No persons who are deemed good enough are left out. This should be the walk of the peace interest, not the selfish interest of this and that tribe or people. But the interest of man.
G-d bless the peace we will find.
When we need to change, we need to have a strategy, that will give us that change. Internationally I have recommended a “Spartan” strategy. That is a strategy that was followed by the Spartan kings during the wars they had with Athens in around 500 BC.
What was really striking about these fighting men, were not their professional fighting skills, no, it was their way of leading the men they led.
They were so good at leading, that they often persuaded the enemies to fight with them.
I have done quite a lot of research on this question, because to me, they are the best leaders mankind has ever seen.
So why did they have success?
This question is difficult to answer, because the organization and the heritage of the Spartans are quite complex.
But let us start with the heritage. Who were the Spartans really?
Well, there are different tribes in the Hellene world. Ionian, Semitic and Dorian.
Mostly Ionian and Doric.
Sparta was a Doric city, Athens was an Ionian city. The fight between Athens and Sparta called the Peloponnesian war, was a fight not only between two systems; conservative and liberal, it was also between two tribes Ionian and Doric.
But the questions is then; who were these two people?
Well, in the Homeric fables, a time of heroes and damsels were depicted, great heroes as Odyssey and the Achilles fought; a mythical time.
This mythical time were the time of the Mycenean. In the spring of Hellene civilization this amazing tribe were roaming the beautiful islands, living in palaces and inspiring art and warfare. What happened then to the Homeric world?
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When you are a world leader, often this brings a lot of isolation and it is difficult to find new friends, because you never know whether there is a hidden agenda, or the new friend represent some kind of power player. It is difficult. But then there is often a possibility to make new friends with other world leaders, because then you are sure there are no hidden agenda, you really meet on an equal footing.
These friendships on an international level are very important, because friendships make it possible to make alliances and work together, not only as peers but also as organizations.
Thing is, you open up, and you give your most precious commodity as a person, your trust. This strange psychological bond is something good, and should be respected.
I know mr. Barack Obama well enough to know, that when he met the wise Franciscan monk yesterday, he extended his friendship and trust.
And I know mr. Bergoglio, the humane and loving priest, that this was accepted. Perhaps on this foundation, the love of the world can and will move forward, so that people will eventually share the bonds that strengthen them and give them the opportunity to reach spirit, because this is really the aim, ind the end.
G-d bless the will to find new good friends.
I believe what we are witnessing these days, where Germany is in the forefront of a peaceful deal with the Russians is in fact a historic event.
Since the Second World War, the European politicians have mostly been weak and not able to put forth a vision that would happen on European terms.
It was a bit of a hangover after the five hundred years of dominance over the entire globe.
We have lost all the power, but now we are finding a new and much more fitting role; as a leader in terms of intellect and diplomacy.
We have lost most of the power over the world, but we still retain all the wisdom and skill we perfected over centuries. It is a bit like the Roman Empire, the organizations imploded after seven hundred years, but the legacy is still a part of our history and tradition.
We represent a view on things that is a part of the make up of most countries in the world, and people listen to that voice, because we represent their roots.
Currently Germany has seized this role, and is building bridges between east and west. That is magnificent, it is outstanding. We need countries to work for peace, and especially Germany with its losses in the first and Second World War is gaining a lot of strength in these moves.
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The international peace efforts have had a serious breakdown. The current crisis in Ukraine, the stalled negotiations in Israel and the stall mate in Syria.
This is because the momentum of the initial Arab spring and consequently all the hope it gave for a positive democratic evolution is almost spend.
It has changed the world in many ways, but we need to be sharp on the final chapter of this progress to make the peace that was promised in the beginning of Mr. Barack Obamas presidency.
Diplomacy is an extremely difficult art. It calls upon wisdom, and it calls upon extremely ethical behavior.
This is difficult, but possible, there are examples in the past where charismatic and just leaders won over not only friends but also enemies.
Anyway, we need to wrap up the losses we have had recently and start the peace process again.
This time, we need to do it with the respect of all involved, we cannot just bulldoze over the entire earth and then presume that that will give us peace, it is not possible, given the current real power based on military and economic dominance for anyone single state to have its way.
Therefor we need to start talking sense, and stop the bickering.
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