Now the war in Israel has changed character. In the beginning it was basically just an uprising, although a very well planned uprising. It has now turned into a war.

When Barack and I fought the war in Libya, we did it to counter some of the strategies that Gadaffi made, and had learned from the Palestinians. Here is how we won.

First of all, the Palestinian see warfare in a much more modern optics than we do. They have recognized, that the main battle is not on ground but in the media. You win or lose your wars in media. So the media has to be the central part of your strategies from the beginning.

The palestinians have taken it to it a extremes by sacrificing women and children to make good pictures. This is smart, but only smart as long as the media do not realize the plot. Not to mention that using women and children is, ethically, extremely gruesome.

With the advent of the internet, this strategy was weakened, because the world has become much more transparent. Gadaffi made a kind of a theatre, but nobody fell for the plot, because it was too obvious that it was just smoke and mirrors.
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Well a lot of my friends who are really fighting for peace are very disappointed about the developments lately. They believe that the fight was in vain, and now we are just reduced to the eternal wheel of action and reaction. Revenge calls for revenge and this goes on in an endless circle.

Well, first of all. Peace is not won just by dialogue. Dialogue is the first and foremost principle, but if your opponent refuses to listen and is stubborn in his attack on you, you end up in war. That is just the way it is.

When we come to that phase of a conflict, either you reduce or you increase the fighting. Again if your opponent is not interested in defusing the fight, you cannot help but respond to his or her actions.

The point is, it is not about action or reaction, it is about the mindset of the fighters. If just one of the actors are not interested in peace, there will never be peace.

With the Muslim brotherhood/Al Queda/Isil, they have been living in a dream world for too long to be realistic about their prowess. They are seriously believing that their dream of spreading Islam to the entire world will succeed. This is absolutely absurd, as events have showed us lately. Now they have a piece of land in Iraq, and that is what they will remain with for a long time. But they will continue the barrage and the fight. It is delusional.
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Israel is in the line of fire. So far we had a terrible but prolific start. Then we had a huge downfall, and now we are slowly climbing up of the hole again.

It is about the moral high ground when we fight. Who are doing things most ethically. We cannot just fall over, because we need to protect Israel, and we cannot just go crazy and bomb all of Gaza. We have to take it one action at a time, slowly diminishing the war power of Hamas, and ultimately relieve all of Gaza from enemies.

It will be an agonizing process, but it will end in a much more stable Israel, without any enemies lurking at our doorsteps.

We just have to be patient.

G-d bless Israel.

Germany won an astounding victory over Brazil. Being a fan of both countries, I like Germany; Hamburg, Coburg, Berlin, I like Brazil; Salvador, Rio, Fortaleza, I really find the win both amazing and cynical.

First of all, Europe is back. Football reflects the national strength in terms of organization, morale and spirit. With Germany and Holland reaching the semifinales and now the finale, the mood of the countries are good. As well as the organizations.

This spells for change in Europe, and we will see, but to my mind, it will be a change for the better.

At at the other hand, beating Brazil so much was cruel. It was not necessary. It reveals another side of European mood, the relentless pounding of enemies. It has happened since Europe was invaded by Danes four thousand years ago, Celts felt it, the Americas felt it, the world felt it under the rule of the empires.

This relentless action will be the downfall of the Islamists. They deserve it by all means, but there is no quarter given to them, or will be. It will be a truly devastating scene.

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I have had a long story of digging into the maw of the Middle East, reading about the Hittities, the ancient Egyptians, the long walk of the Jews, the nascent Persia and the courageous bedouins. There are still some remnants of this ancient world. People long forgotten by the world, living on the edges, still holding on to ancient lore and an identity that brought us what we today call civilization. We recall Babylon, Ur, the birth city of Abraham. Some even know that ancient Christian and Jewish scrolls were written in Aramaic. The thing is, these ancient peoples still exist, and we even work together with them. As the Assyrians and the Armenians.

Today they are Christian, but originally they were inventors of the law and democracy. They invented what we today see as our own ideas.

Now, they are in harms way. Because we conquered Iraq and allied ourselves with them. First the British then the American. After the British left, a genocide was conducted. They payed a heavy price for the collaboration they did with us. Now the situation is the same, or worse because the new master is Isil. A caliphate on a vengeance.
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Now, we have made a huge loss in Iraq. A state that we thought, unwisely we see know, that we could turn into a well governed state. We should have been much more clear on our priorities and now we pay for our faults.

But, if you enter into a fight, you need to be ready to take punches, that is the way fighting goes.

We have to rethink our strategy with the new situation, and hopefully regain the momentum.

The stakes are high, and the fallout of the conflict has the potential to alter our known world, at least seen from a western/eastern perspective.

But let us take the positive things first. We are still in some kind of cooperation in the northern world, including Russia and the US. Had we not been, matters would have been much, much worse. The conflict with The caliphate of Iraq is so much more dangerous to us all, that it will take the attention, and put the Ukraine conflict to rest. I really ache for the poor Russians in Donetsk and Lugansk, but the winds of war are blowing against them. I cannot help anymore, and I, with a bleeding heart, recommend a truce and a cooperation with Ukraine in the interest of peace and reconciliation.

I am so sorry, I wished for your independence and perhaps in the future it will come, but as things are right now, it will probably not come.

I will, however not forget you, and if there is a chance in the future for a solution that will ensure full rights for all, I will fight for your cause. To the Ukraine side, I understand you see this fight for at fight for your territorial integrity. But at least see the plight and needs of Russians and give them full rights. Give them right to speak their own language, and right to pursue a understanding of their own culture.
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The conflict in and around Israel is theoretically quite simple to understand and act on, but in practice extremely difficult.

We are suspended between the material world and the spiritual world. The material world drags at us all the time, an, as Adam, we are often seduced into eating the apple.

We however, if we want the cherubs to keep the gates of paradise open, have to understand the ways of the material world to act in accordance with the will of spirit.

Putting up a screaming horde of vigilantes, marauders and evil men in front of us. Is that the act of Eve or of Adam? Well it is quite clear to me, that the snake in paradise, that tries to lure us away from the wise path is the marauders. If we follow their chant and their seductive manners. We will act as them, and are then cast out of paradise.

The material world should be treated as it is; something to keep away from oneself, something that will always challenge us as a nation and as a people. Something we can only win over, if we see through all its schemes.
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If we look at the confrontation in Israel, we need to see it in connection with the other actions the Muslim brotherhood/Al Queda/Isis have done the last few weeks.

The MAJOR operation was the annexation and consequently plundering of half of Iraq. The SMALL operation was that in Israel. The proportions are quite simply not to compare. Therefor the conclusion is quite obvious, the real important action for Isis was not to attack the three boys, it was to take a piece of territory it could use as a base to spread its ideology.

In other words, the attack on Israel was more a diversion than a real threat. While everybody look upon Israel, they have time to consolidate their power in Iraq, remove obstacles, regroup, get stronger.

And, it worked.
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In these times of chaos and destruction one perhaps needs to remember why we are here, and what the purpose of religion really is.

There are basically two confronting mechanisms in the world; the loving part and the hating part.

Love is the means to construction, while as hate is the means to destruction. We are all one, but sometimes we forget it.

When this urge comes over us, it clouds our judgement, and we are all fired up by the wish to seek revenge. Both in families and nations, these feelings are always destructive. After the action is done, we look upon our relationship or our nation, and we see that something is broken.

That is why most philosophers advice temperance, not to be weak, but to act wisely.

Justice can be many things, but central to most understanding of justice is the fact that it should bring the society onto a more positive path, not a negative path. By protecting the weak, or by bringing more health to the society. Therefor justice is not an easy thing, it is a complicated thing, that takes a lot of reflection and is something we wish for wise men and women to do.

G-d bless the justice of the birth cradle of civilization called today the Middle East.

The confrontation with Hamas/Fatah is really not going that well, we are all upset, and in this climate of anger and frustration we are not thinking clearly. Our feelings rule our actions.

We mourn for the teens, and we are filled with anger and a wish to “get back” on Hamas.

This is exactly why Hamas did the heinous act, and if we do it, they would have won. They are using our own weaknesses against us.

Nobody sets the same high moral standard for Hamas as they set high moral standards for us. Why? Because they are not the chosen people, they were not the one tribe that was chosen by spirit to spread the light of the creator. We are.

So, we need to act in accordance with what we are supposed to do, otherwise people will not accept our claim to make Israel.

According to Kabbalah Israel is the holy nation. This is really what it is all about. Israel is not a piece of land, or just somewhere we live, it is one great temple.
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It has been a few weeks of nightmarish proportion for the people of Israel. The threat of elimination of the poor teens have been a terrible situation. And now it came to nothing all the money spend on investigation, all the searching, all the heartache, no consequence. The realization of the fragility of young people of Israel is terrible.

The threat comes from Hamas, but to really counter it, one has to see the complicated threath, and act in unison with our allies.

The threat is actually not that large anymore. We are talking about an almost isolated Hamas, the core of Sunni rebels without much support, and a host of allies.

Securing the borders of Israel is therefor not that hard.

First of all, I would recommend Israel to try to reach out and get a consolidated and coordinated handling of Hamas. Egypt is also very keen on stopping them, and there might be other in the Middle East that would like to help settling the matter.

Hamas still have a few friends in Europe and in the US. These should be considered, but not given any control.

The pressure on Hamas should be gradual and not sudden.

If a deal with Egypt could be made, a slow suffocation could be tried. Not on food and medical appliances, but on weaponry and money.

They are weak, and could be slowly forced to give up and move somewhere else, but it should be done in accordance with everybody else. If Israel just thunders in, we will loose too much international support, and we are very dependent on that.

G-d bless the families of Gil-Ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrah and Naftali Fraenkel, I hope they will carry them in their hearts for all of us to remember.

I think we can conclude now on the first two three years of the work done here on rubicon in relation to Israel and the work of peace.

Basically peace did not jump out of the box and settled everywhere in the world after the internet appeared and man could understand all of what happens. On the contrary, more conflicts appeared because man all of a sudden realized how they were treated and who actually tried to harm them.

But, Israel has had a very positive impact on world politics. This is in relation to the awareness of principles that could lead to peace, help where we could be used, but most important; as a peace broker in real conflicts. One thing is the good feeling of progress and peace, another thing is the actual bridge building between parts in conflict. I must say, I was extremely worried about the conflict in Ukraine, sometimes I though perhaps everything was lost. But due to the good will of both Putin and Obama, what could have turned into a large scale conflict was avoided.

Here, we in Israel helped in the understanding and brokering of peace.
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The European Union has come to a halt. The entire process up to the election of Juncker was marred with internal fighting, lack of progress and some very esquisit political handling.

I, for one, am quite impressed by the skill of Ms. Angela Merkel. She is a good politician. It never went her way however, and ethically there is no doubt that Mr. Cameron was the one person who actually took the different constituencies serious.

As Paul Kennedy had propheticed, The European Union is not imbued with all the mechanisms and sound principles that will lead to success. China is, and hopefully both The USA and Russia is, but not the EU.

It seems to me quite clear, that what we can aim at however is a Northern Union. I know that this is a wish of many, especially the Scotsmen, and why not? It would recreate the Viking empires, and that is something the voters will like.

We will see. The systems are preparing for a turnover. The English system is in the forefront of this development, and will continue to tear the European Union into pieces.

At the end of the day. I do not understand why the Eurocrats have been so arrogant. Acted as though the european voters were small children to be put into their rightful place. Using the wip all the time.

Maybe it was because they wanted it too much? If you want something too much, you never get it. If you take it a bit more easy, and actually listen to the voters and the people, you could have handled it much better, now it is just down the slide.

G-d bless the will to listen to what people actually says.

Often politicians think too much about money, and too little about ideology. I suppose it is because this is often what politicians really do; make budgets and control the flow of the money of the state.

Socialism is really born with the focus on money. Karl Marx was an economist who had a warm heart for the workers. But he did not care much for G-d.

So as a natural tendency, socialism has focused on the mundane world and not so much on the spiritual world.

This is changing, and it has brought forth a new paradigm of economics. It is usually defined as “obamanomics”, but it is much more a liberal version of the economics of Adam Smith. Smith really defined the ideas that fueled the expanding British empire. But due to haste or simply bad luck, the political world did not really grasp the true balance of Smith, and it is basically this simplemindedness that we are suffering with today.

Because, freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility.

Thus the natural consequence of this progress is the rebounding of Smithsonian economical ideas, but in a more complete way.

The conservatives have normally based their economical philosophy on Smith, and this, naturally, leaves the liberal side to choose the other side of his philosophy. Conservatives choose the freedom, the liberal chooses the ethical part.
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If we take a look at the current political situation in the game of world powers, it is, more or less as follows.

First of all, the world is truly united against the Sunni rebels. That is Al Queda in collaboration with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Taliban.

This gives the world a respite after the catastrophic developments in Ukraine, where the new world order of peace was seriously compromised. Only due to the fortitude and great and grand heart of mr. Vladimir Putin was the confrontation eased and did not end up in a major conflict. Thank you so much for that mr. Putin, had it not been for you, we would have ended up in a conflict that could have spurred the world into total destruction, thank you.

Isis/Al-Queda or whatever you call it has attracted a lot of attention. Why? Because it is not a local militia, it is a part of the Muslim Brotherhood led network of opaque players, that has reorganized after the loss in Egypt, and has proven a resilient opponent.
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The Middle East is embroiled in yet another bloody war. Since the days of the first pharaohs, the Middle East has been the fighting ground for thousands of armies, and still is.

One thing is certain however, we need to understand the current conflict in order to progress with the peace plans.

Both the Sunni as well as the Shias have actually progressed a long way on the path of peace. On one hand we have Egypt, who are ready to rebuild the nation and reaches out for the West. We should off cause take this opportunity. At the other hand we have Iran, who are really also trying to reach a peaceful solution. Also Saudi Arabia are interested in peace.

In the middle however we have Sunni rebels, who are, ideologically, too far from the ideas of a united Middle East, and consequently destroying hope in the Middle East for progress and harmonious relations.
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There is a certain tremor in the American economy. The momentum we created in the election is passing out, this will tell the observant reader one thing; the economical development has to be induced into the academic world.

To be realistic about the economical process we have started, we need to understand these ideas in a philosophical as well as a practical sense.

Most economical theories are supported and passed on to new generations of scholars, politicians, businessmen through education and political ideas. Like Keynesian ideas, or the ideas of Adam smith.

As we see in the metaphysical area, where I have the fortitude of being invited to Oxford, I hereby pledge the economical academic work to do the same. We need the ideas to be a part of day to day discussion and be passed on to new generations and good servicemen. Please remember that I have a very limited budget.

Adam Smith saw the equilibrium of ethics on one hand combined with free markets on the other.

To reach a balance between the two principles, we need to teach both principles in academia.

G-d bless the will to be wise in the field of economics.

The world is moving away from my perspective, slowly but consistently. Yes, the readers are still there, and there are movements that I have had the honour to inspire that is moving forth with vigor. But it is going in the wrong direction. The Middle East is embroiled in another bloody war, Europe is not gaining in independence, and the peace process I have been a part of is slowly stopping. I know, that all my readers want this to start again, but the material world is as it is.

I have to change tactics. We have to go back to the drawing board, and rethink the strategy.

Peace is only obtained, if people are satisfied. How are they satisfied? They are satisfied, if they are fulfilled in terms of needs.

The entire world is about giving and taking. The mechanisms that are working in the business of giving and taking, are a bit more complex than what you would superficially believe.
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There is a great disturbance in the spirit of the world, at least this is how I feel it. The conflict between the Sunni lead Muslim brotherhood and Europe is getting more and more intense, and the rethorics is harsh. The ideas and the methods I have put in place is slowly turning the conflict away from all out war into controlled handling, but still, the stakes are so high, and the problems so severe, that whatever we do, it will be bloody.

On the international scene, the Muslim Brotherhood have had a great victory in the carving out of a sharia state in Iraq/Syria. This is a set back, but, at the other hand, it was expected that after the loss in Egypt, they would do something to rectify the situation. Now they have a territory at their disposal, where they can resupply and organize without the scrutiny of the West or other enemies.

At the other hand, the strategy has one great minus; it makes the end result or the aim of the Muslim brothers quite clear to the world; it is not some kind of democracy they want, they want a Muslim kingdom based on Muslim law and Muslim values. No democracy.
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Israel is much safer now than a few years back, Egypt is really pro Israel, Iran wants to make peace, even Saudi Arabia is positive towards Israel. How has this come to be?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G-d bless the will to share.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I look forward to come to Oxford!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G-d bless the will to peace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The list goes on.

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

Freedom to create, test, find new ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefor the root cause is the fighting between the religions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

According to the ancient Egyptians light was the truth.

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

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

The light of the sun is purifying for a state or a nation. This light is wielded by the strongest and most courageous of citizens. They seek to put light on the corruption of society, thereby diminishing it, and thereby keeping the nations healthy. These lightbringers are often persecuted and killed, as Socrates.
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