A friend of mine was just to put to jail in Sweden. Ok I do not know him that well, but one of my close friends, is one his best friends. So we are, in a way closely connected. What was the crime of this friend? Was it to steal? No he has been living on the lowest possible income for a long time, but, according to my knowledge, has never stolen anything. Was it violence? No he has been beaten up by leftist extremist for a few times, but apart from that, nothing has been violent. He is extremely skinny, wears thick glasses and has long hair, so you would not exactly see him as the violent type. So what did he do to be put to jail in Sweden? He made little drawings so critical to the regime, that they thought it was best to try and shut him by putting him to jail. At least they did not kill him as they did Theo Van Gogh.

But why? What happened to that gorgeous country that gave us Volvo and Abba? How did they end up in a position that gave them incentive to put an artist in prison?

It is a long story, but bottom line, Sweden has reached a point of no return, as did holland with Theo Van Gogh and Denmark with the Mohammad cartoons. The artists who are supposed to test the limits of freedom reaches a limit that is set by the humanitarian elite, who believe in freedom, but not freedom for all, only freedom for those they like. Does this sound familiar? If you put any kind of tyranny behind this maxime, you will see, that it is all just a naked attempt on power grabbing and control, call it humanism, nazism, islamism, spartism, bullying or rather, as Plato lets the tyrant Critias call it; the rule of the strong.

This is it, democracy and freedom of speech, the first amendment in the American constitution, what Socrates died for is nullified because of someone grabbing the power to control.

It happens everywhere if those who defends freedom is put to sleep.

So in a way it is just another wakeup call. Freedom is under threat, the tyrants are here yet again to put the masses in chains. Let it be heard from coast to coast, from ship to ship, from Viking to Viking. That ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We as citizens in a free and open society are fed up I having the right opinions shoved down our throaths, of being bound be the craven, evil, dark Tyrants who believe that as long as no one hears about it, they can do whatever they want. ENOUGH! Of half hearted measures and careerist travellng on the back on the warriors of light. ENOUGH! of the craven intellectuals looking for the next fix or contract. Enough of slavery and oppression. This is a call to arms, to all those who love freedom and are ready to stand by the warriors of light.

G-d bless the freedom we will lose if we are not awake in this hour of danger.

We hear a lot about the presumption, that there is no ultimate goal to the fight against the Islamic State. Well there is; to beat the Islamic State. The way to that goal is however extremely difficult, basically because it is a very complicated work we are doing, and have been doing for a long time. Remember, this started with the attack on Twin Towers many years ago, and has been a fight ever since.

The fight includes a fight both on an ideological level, as well as a physical level.

According to the classical greek historian Thycudides, war will run in two oppositions. In the Pelleponese wars it was Sparta facing Athens. Today it is democracy/humanism against a political version of Sunni Islam.

The longer we fight, the more we strenghten our values, so in a sense both the redemption as well as the destruction lies in the fight against IS.

The IS supporters are very difficult to track down, because our own system is so bad at doing it. Remember the airport that the bombers of 9/11 used as a starting point? They had relaxed their own security system, because they wanted to be fast and efficient. The same is the case in Europe right now, we have laid down the borders, to be modern and efficient. But this measure have made Europe too vulnerable to infiltration and the worse.

So we need to do as the airport industry have been forced to; put up more security measures in Europe. Otherwise we will be too vulnerable.

G-d bless the will to persevere in the face of the fear everybody feels.

When we look at the problems we face with IS fighters in Denmark, we need to realize that we are in a war with them. Not just in Iraq and Syria, but also in Denmark. We try to be delusional about it, but when the IS supporters believe that the war also encompasses Denmark, and includes muslims in Denmark, the muslims in Denmark that supports IS are enemies.

How do we then treat these IS supporters that, often openly, show their allegiance? First of all, we should not fall to the same depths as they do, that would be wrong and inhumane. We need to use the tools that is as humane as possible.

This is why I have suggested the expatria tool. If you support IS, you will be excempt from your allegiance to the democratic country you live in. You cannoth both support a caliphate and a democracy.

This will of cause be in contrast to human rights.

Since human rights are basically a version of Athenian democratic thought, a good starting point would then be to go back to the original thinkers, and hear about their opinion.

According to Aristotle, there are two prerequisites one has to fulfill to be a citizen in a democratic city (they had cities at that time, not nations). One is to be a part of the legislative process (obey the law). The other is to be a part of the democratic process (vote and take part in the discussions that lead to new laws). If not, you are not entitled to a passport.

Since the islamists fulfill neither, it makes sense to take away their citizenship. In fact you could say, that the defense of the democratic state needs to take this defense in regard to survive. Otherwise the Islamists could vote themself in, and change the constitution as the Nazis did in the last century.

So, we need the police to get started. It should not be so difficult, most islamist are quite open with their affiliation on both Facebook and Twitter, so they are easy to find.

G-d bless the will to survive as a democratic state.

We are entering a very difficult phase of the renewed discussion on family ethics in the Catholic church, the conclusions we draw, will be everlasting, or at least lasting for many, many years. So we have to be super serious about these discussion, base them on deep knowledge and established philosophical principles. Otherwise we risk putting believers on an unwise and ultimately destructive path.

Jesus Christ adviced a principle we can always fall back; love yourself as you love your neighbor. This idea is in fact Jewish in its origin, and rests on principles that may have their origin all the way back in Mesopotamia. At least I have recognized them in some of the Kabbalah material I have read.

So it is an ancient Jewish idea. What does it tell us? It tells us to be unselfish, to feel with our kin as much as we feel for ourself. It also tells us to be humble, not to put ourselves above people around us. Why? Because true love and connection between you and I is boundless, and self love makes boundaries between the I and the you.

In other words, we need to share. Not only our wealth with people who have very little, but also with people in our families. Sharing will give us less boundaries to put in between one another. It will give us less self love, and more love for those that is most close to us.

G-d bless the will to shed the shackles of egoism and be one with those around us.

The family as a unit and as a frame for our development as human beings, has had a bit of a comeback within the frame of Catholic thinking, in fact the synod that is currently under way has a lot of promise on this area. You have to stay in your A-game. Do what you are best at, we are best at this. The intimacy between family members are the foundation under any sound society, and the better we are at supporting this holy institution the better the world will be.

Off cause I have discussed this theoretic issue with myself a lot. In the beginning I must say it was mostly theoretical, but after I have made a smallish family of myself, It has been time to use all the theory in practice. Some of the theories I had were good, others did not work.

One of the truly interesting things about family, is the fact that it is a small nation in itself. All the theory of peacemaking and progress you usually apply to the well being of the nation is one to one applicable to the family. In my family we discuss too much. My wife is headstrong and idealistic, and I am as well. We truly love each other, but we seem, both of us, to have all the answers. So we fight for our version of the truth. This brings a lot of progress for both of us, but often it is too much, and the atmosphere is sometimes not too good. So as a principle we always make peace at sunday. We need one day to regain our strength for the next week to come, and have some time together and especially be together with Rakel. This may seem very simple, but at the end to the day, it is important to respect the holy days, so that we do get the rest we need.

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The order of the European Union is slowly falling apart. The southern Euro countries are suffering under a fiscal policy they cannot sustain. The open borders are wrecking havoc in the Northern countries. The antinational propaganda is creating generations of citizens without any relationship to their home country or anything at all.

Well, this is all the consequence of idiocy in my eyes, if you want to create a superstate, you at least should create a proper state with a serious parliament and fair system of judges. What the machinators of the EU have focused on is the bureaucratic organizations of all the countries, making them more alike. Just because you share the same system of schools and legislation on diary products, you do not share the same values, history and dreams. The roots of the european countries are extremely deep, and you cannot change them at a whim.

Ultimately this will change, and I hope that we are ready for that change. My contribution has been to try and underpin the new change as a democratic, liberal, humanistic change plus a serious come back to the church. The next ten years will show if my plans were sound or made too late. Right now, as I can see, some countries will go through a long march of desolation and destruction to end up in a more free and fair society, based on law and on spirit. Others will cease to exist, will be carved up by the neighboring countries, or end up as IS enclaves.

Change brings both destruction and construction, hopefully this will not be too violent, but I seriously doubt it. It will be absolutely violent, old orders will be toppled and new will emerge. Like all the other revolutions we have had in Europe before.

G-d bless the will to stay humane in the face of all the slaughter and destruction.

Seen from a perspective of peace, the latest developments in the Middle East region has gone the wrong way. We did reach a solution in the Gaza/Israel war, that ended up in a situation where our kids can go to school, and the Gazans did not get totally destroyed, a winning scenario for both. But now the development gets to a new point, and the anti IS campaign is showing its first stage to be more difficult than we thought, we know it is difficult, but the ever changing alliances is difficult to track and stay on top off.

There are basically two difficulties right now; one is the conflict between Iran and Israel the other is the lagging support of Turkey against IS. The first is solveable, the second not. Why? Because the Persian government actually wants to make deal, but Turkey does not.

It is basically a matter of ethics. Iranians are honest basically, we have been enemies, but that was mostly due to the cold war conflict where we supported the sunnis against the shia. This opposition is not there anymore, it can flare up, and we can walk down that path, but the leaders of both the US and Russia are not really interested in the conflict, because we have another enemy, that of IS.

The world is always put in two camps. It has been communism against capitalism, but at least from the perspective of the ruling elite this is over. It is now Christian democratic/humanistic parties against the advent of an uncivilized and barbaric threat to humanity. Still there are some who have not realized this, and this is basically why the old coldwar rethorics is prevalent. But mr. Putin and mr. Barack Obama are still the best of friends, they just seem to be a little pressed on the homefront.
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Sometimes when you are ruling, you also become pretty isolated. You end up in that gilded tower, powerful but in want of some good friend to pup by and drink a glass of vodka or just have a friendly talk. I as one feel this often, being a blogger isolated, and having very few friend due to the radical impact this gives on the world, it can be a burden sometimes. But then I think about the good I do to the world, how my isolated life is serving the interests of the world, how my sacrifice will bring so much into the world that were before falling and corrupting. My sacrifice is good due to the effect it has. Perhaps this is what mr. Putin feels sometimes, how the isolation on the top of that great country is both a blessing and a curse.

Well you have one friend, mr. Putin, and though our projects are difficult, I believe we are in a better place now than before. The challenges we have met are extremely difficult, and it is not over. But, G-d willing, we will persevere and bring the world to a better place.

Often people discuss what is behind those actions that we have made, and if they would just listen, they would know, that it is a matter of bringing peace, and supporting our brothers when they are need, it is not a plot or something manipulative, we just wanted to make peace in Ukraine, and help the Russians there. We failed in some areas, and won in other, but now, hopefully, we will have peace.

I bless you mr. Putin, may your life and reign be of a nature that the bards will sing about and the minstrels applaud.

We are backing one horse, without backing of the other horse. In the antique metaphysics and physics was one, in fact metaphysics was the most challenging part of the natural sciences, so to say. Today metaphysics, the lore of G-d is almost extinct.

We believe this is a natural thing, and if we sometimes think about religion and G-d, it is usually not something we do discuss with many, but something we keep secret. In this way we are really in the dark times still.

When we came out of the last depression in terms of science and learning, we strove and tried to reach a stage of advanced metaphysics. But the books were, often, difficult to get by, and as a consequence we were stranded in a way, with half an Aristotelian understanding, and half a Platonic understanding. The real level of knowledge and complexity never was truly realized.

Then we had an industrial revolution and a political revolution, and in both areas we had a huge leap forward, but G-d was lost truly in the proces. It gave us a world, where our systems was professionalized and our material output was maximized to the extreme, we still live in this world with material/physical advancement of an extreme pace.

But we have lost something, we have lost the insight into nature, the feeling for nature, and the sensibility to one important thing; poetry.

The sense of trees waving in the wind, the connection to everything around us, the adventure that life and spirit in connection is. When we did lose that, as a result of he Newtonian revolution, we lost something really precious, and when we reach a state where life again will be open to the mysteries of our world, we will be enriched, again.

G-d bless the openness to the world in all it’s many ways.

So the fight against the IS has entered a new stage, the coalition is more or less in place. The western world has come together to meet this new threat to democracy and freedom. There is however just one problem, and that is the fact, that we have a huge part of the population in the European and overseas countries, who seem to disagree with the project.

In Denmark we have serious problems, our soldiers are afraid to walk around with their uniforms on in public in certain areas. There has just been a huge demonstration for IS in the capital, underreported and not responded to. The intellectuals and the political parties are all in high alert. As a kind of responce to the IS front some of my friends and I have published some pictures (I did not do it personally), that was banned in Sweden due to “racist” content, which is what the government do if they are afraid of the Muslims. We have around 500.000 muslims pro IS here in Denmark, that is of population of 5 million. On and on it goes.

So all in all it is all going hay wire, and the insecurity is basically beyond belief. My own security is absurd, I mean, I have based my critisism of Islam on democratic values from the beginning, which I would presume would be an accepted political perspective, and yet I am blacklisted, unprotected and in some kind of danger. The police seems to be paralyzed in face of the task, in fact they are, in some places, infiltrated and making all kinds of stupid supportive measures.

This will either end in total anihilation, all out war, mass rapings, public beheadings or something worse. We see how IS is faring in Iraq and Syria, what would stop them from doing the same in Europe and elsewhere where they are in control of large areas of the territory?

G-d bless the will to be honest about the problems we face.

When you pray, often you do it to make amends, look critically upon yourself, have a little chat with spirit, reach out for another person you may miss, or just feel the comfort of silence and rest. But a few times in your life, you really are in a deep crisis, it can be in your marriage, in conflict or in war. As politicians, who read this blog knows. The dangers are many, and the help is, in reality very scarce. The advisors your have are often more interested in their own career than in really giving you sound advice, and in the top there is often freezingly cold. But, as always, when you are in need, you still have spirit. G-d does not care whether you are rich or poor, he is always there for you if you chose to be there for him, or it.

I am lost. Basically, doing what I do is totally stupid, it does not make any sense, if you look at it from outside. Why would someone sacrifice his entire existence, the wellbeing of his family, the comfort of a steady job to help the world regain its footing? It defies logic in a way.

One of my favourite writers is the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. He writes beautifully about love and the raptures he sings to his country is filled with all the colours of that proud and unbowing nation. He was defamed, rightully by his admission to Social Nationalism, but his writing is still superb, and I like it just for that.

When he was in the beginning of his career, he lived as a poor boheme in a derelict part of Oslo. He had a few jobs here and there, but his stomach growled louder than his thoughts sometimes. As all other artists, he tried and tried and tried for his breakthrough. At the end of the line, he sat there at his worn out desk, with only a small piece of pencil left, no money, no nothing, and the he realized, that the only way you can truly write, is by writing from where you stand yourself. You can only write with passion about what you yourself know about. So he wrote his breakthrough novel “Hunger”.

When I was once really, really sick. At the end of the line with my life, laying in my bed, looking up in the cealing, I prayed for an answer. Not just halfheartedly, but with all I had, with every ounce of my being for an answer to my predicament, I got one answer, and that was, if you fight for me, I will fight for you. This was when I was chosen as warrior of light.

I have very little, no mother, no father, no close relatives. In fact I do not even have a job. But I have one thing that other people lack; I have faith.

This faith, is all you really need, or rather, faith is a salvation if you are lost. Because it will lead you onto a better and more beautiful path. Because G-d is what is good in this world, and if we stand together united in a true faith in G-d, we will be saved, all of us.

This is why G-d chose such a lost person as me to communicate some of his viewpoints and ideas, because only through the truly lost will he be heard. Because the truly lost is ready to dedicate his everything to a cause, because he has nothing more to lose.

Think about it when you see someone in need, or you have to face something you have to overcome; if you place yourself at the mercy of spirit, humble yet strong in the action you are told to do. You will be chosen as well. We can all be chosen, because G-d will chose all those who will follow him on his path. He is open and forgiving, but never simple or superficial. He is your best friend, and your last refuge. He is there, because he needs us as much as we need him. All of us, small, strong, weak, old and young.

This is the true knowledge of spirit.

G-d bless the will to remain faithfull in the face of neglect and danger.

There are many things that seem to change in this world; how we see the conflicts, the situation in and around Israel, global peacemaking, the role of religion. There is however one thing that seems to be put in stone. That the very philosopher who is, by now, leading, intellectually, the confrontation between the democratic world and the islamists, is prone for ridicule and suspicion.

After mr. Barack Obama has waved the flag of sanctions of Denmark and other coalition countries that does not get their own house in order. Well what has happened? That is easy to say; absolutely nothing. A few words here and there, but on the ground absolutely nothing has changed. The support to the IS soldiers are still in effect, my isolation and the closed doors for any kind of public appearance is in effect. So both the on ground supposedly actions to be taken has not come into action, and the vilification of the democratic intellectuals remain the same.

Do the officials understand absolutely nothing? Are they deaf? Do they just think that ignoring the problems will make it go away.

One of my acquaintances posted a story on Facebook about an unprovoked attack on a young man by some who looked like islamists in broad daylight. This is what IS has threatened with, and yet no reaction from the authorities.

Are they without any kind of remorse or empathy with the citizens they put in harms way by choosing not to act?

Beats me, but I think it is about time we move from playing around, and actually doing something about it.

G-d bless the will to remain faithfull in the face of absolute neglect.

I believe that there is a certain turmoil in the relationship between the Russians and the Americans. To me it seems as a conflict over turf. Syria is the turf of the Russian led Shia side, and Americans and Saudis bombing there seems to be an affront.

Well, to put things in perspective, we could draw a parallel to Ukraine. Here things are the same, just with different actors. Russia sees this as a home/domestic issue, and see Americans as making conflict. In Syria, the Americans need to defend their own interests in Iraq, and needs a bit of room for that.

As I mentioned earlier. This situation therefore holds a certain room for negotiation. As Mr. Barack Obama has already signalled. In other words, he is ready, as I understand it, to loosen up sanctions, and give Russia more room of maneurability in Ukraine, if Russia gives him the same in Syria.

This of cause does not leave either Syria or Iran with any relieve over the attacks in their home turf. But there is a possibility to make amends, and have a little more room in other negotiations.

But, into equation comes two other things. One is the relationship to Israel, the other is the upcoming election in the US. The US has to make sure Israel feels a part of the negotiation regarding the descalation of arms in Iran. Obama has to have something to show in the election in the US in november.

The only way this equation can be solved, is if everybody tries to put away their immidiate fears, and tunes in for a viable solution.

G-d bless the will to make peace.

In all the wars the US has officially participated in, and there have been many, seldom has the very core of the US been invested. In the second world war, Americans went over to Europe, got killed on the beaches, and, honestly, did not really know what was the cause of the conflict. In the end, when the Treblinkas and the Birkenaus were opened, and the atrocities and inhumanity of the third Reich was exposed, well I believe Americans realized that the evil that was rooted out, was worth all the sacrifices.

All the propaganda that the Soviet Union spread in Europe still lingers here im Denmark as a bad omen from times before. So as a dane, saying that I really love American values and the American system will make me suspicious. After all, they have a bad reputation, Guantanamo, George Bush and so on.

But they are wrong, because they do not know what they are truly talking about. They have no ideas about the humanistic virtues of America, the birth as a system inspired by french revolutionary thinkers, their faith in democracy, their belief in the individual, their trust in justice, their gruesome fight to the top of that shining hill. But I know, because I do read books, and though you may call me a nerd, and a bookworm, I still believe that knowledge is the basis of choices in your life. I care to disagree.

So after all these years of trouble, war after war, each one being conclusive, where are we? We are so much more alive than all our enemies; the Nazis, the Communists, now the new enemy – the Islamist. Why? Because the survival of a system rests on its quality. A system of low quality will soon fall, a good quality system will last. As the hellenic systems we still are inspired by. Plato said he was writing for eternity, and he did, because of the quality of his writing. Or Jesus Christ, or Moses or Mohammad. All did they have something of quality to present to the world. Otherwise it would have disappeared.

Knowing this might serve as a feeling of destiny. You are not just fighting for yourself in this conflict with the caliphatists, you are fighting as servicemen in a long line of fine and good men. Giving their lives for an ideal, for a better world. If you lose your live, it should be given to something good. If men have given their lives before, for this dream that America truly is, then why cant we?

G-d bless the faith in the constitution of the United States of America.

It fills my heart with joy, when I read about the kids going to school in the south of Israel. In my own school where I work, the atrocities and the fear is far away, so it is difficult to imagine living under constant threat and running for your life all the time.

Making plans and develop strategies to make peace is a lonely thing, you sit at your desk, and try to think up ways to help Israel, but it is a distant project in a way. But when young kids are going to school and the kibbutzes are teeming with life, in a way this seems real to me. Perhaps because schools are schools, wherever they are.

When you fight for peace, and not to subdue anyone, the victory you get is so much of a relief, because there is less soulsearching in regards to your motive. Fighting for peace is always an honourable task. This brings joy!

G-d bless Israel, and may it prosper beyond the ceasefire.

We are now entering another phase in the war, we have realized, that halfhearted allies are worse than enemies. A lot of the propaganda that is initiated and produced by the IS fighters bear a distinct European touch. It is professional, it is modern, and it could only be made with modern computer tools, not something you would traditionally understand jihadis to understand and even less use professionally. Yet they do.

The coalition cannot target IS fighters in another coalition country, because this would be absurd. It can only put pressure on the coalition country to make sure that the IS fighters are stopped and dealt with.

Obviously this is not the case in Denmark, we still hear about former IS fighters who run about given psychological help and all kinds of stupid support.

If you want to fight IS you need to target the fighters and the organization that supports them. A hundred fighters are equal to a lot of mosques, families, support organizations and so on. You have to target the entire system to stop the fighters from flowing to Iraq.

On top of this, it is not in the best interest of the coalition, that intellectuals who are prodemocratic and anticaliphatists are rutinely ridiculed and held under twenty four seven suspicion. On the contrary this approach will help IS.

Now, I believe we have made a coalition we can be proud of, thanks to the wise president mr. Barack Obama, and he will be a hero of ours, not only now, but also in the story books. You could say, with a peace agreement with Iran, he would have concluded his foreign campaign with skill. A mixed dimplomatic/agressive stance with new strategic ideas and processes. Thank you Barack.

G-d bless the wise and the strong.

In the current climate of opression when it comes to the truth of some of the atrocitites that is happening in Europe, one needs a strategy to try to counter the gag there is in effect on all who dare to critisize the problems of Rotherham and the like.

At the end of the day, it is about following your conscience in a very difficult environment of harrasment, ridicule and outright persecution by the society at large and the civilservices in particular. The persecution is often manical and ridiculous, otherwise sober and serious persons become like children and forfeit all manners and civility. Why is it so?

Plato has this explanation that I took to heart at the beginning of my career as a philosopher. In his famous allegory of the cave he explains the relationship between man and light (truth), like this.

Man sits at the end of a cave, he are tied to the wall with strings, making sure, that they are only able to look into the end of the cavewall. Behind them is a small wall, and behind the wall is a small bonfire where machinators walk to and fro with cardboards of different shapes. The shapes casts shadows at the cavewall, so that man will see the light of the bonfire manipulated with the shapes of the machinators. Behind the bonfire and the machinators is a long tunnel, and at the end of the tunnel is an opening. Outside is the sun, and here roams the philosophers. The task of the philosopher is to bring the light into the tunnel, past the machinators, and show it to man. But, even though one would think that man would be happy for the light, after all, it is quite a work for the philosopher to get the light all the way down to man, strangely enough, man is not happy. As soon as man is projected to real truth and light, he will start trashing and try to hit the philosopher.

If we look at this allegory, we can perhaps understand what is happening in Europe right now. There are many machinators, propagandists, people who want to control man and keep man in place. Strangely enough man likes this, and is happily seduced by this and that figuremaker. Take the idea of islamophobia. This is a lie, there is no sickness in fearing Islam, in fact this is good to do, this will make you alert when it comes to understanding the dark side of Islam. But many machinators use this diagnosis on man, to make him shut up. Man is happy to remain tied to that lie, because it is an easy fix.

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The current situation in Europe, where right is wrong, and wrong is right is not something new, it is the sure signs of a civilization in decay. Take the ancient Sumerian civilization that hosted such cities as Babylon, Ur and Uruk. They had the same problem, and you can actually read about in in the bible.

There is a story about Sodom and Gommora. A situation where all in the city are wicked and evil. No one respects anyone, everybody are greedy and cares only about themselves. In biblical language G-d send his vengeful angels and destroyed the city. This is off cause mythology and stories, but there is grain of truth in it we can use to understand the problems we face today. In Rotherham where so many young girls were treated terribly, what was the cause of this? Angst, yes, everybody was afraid of being branded a racist and lose their jobs and so on. But really, in the knowledge of all the suffering the girls had, who wouldnt want to lose their jobs to right this wrong? Well the sad answer is; no one. No one wanted to give away anything, or very few, to save the girls. Everybody were busy tending their own careers, and would not want to risk anything, a moral collapse.

Or in the case of the Danish police who sees the jihadis as volunteers, knowing very well, that they are killing and maiming Christians in Syria. Why do they do this? Because it is the easiest thing to do. By acknowledging the inhumane act, they save their own skin.

See the pattern?

We are in and out, absolutely corrupted. Not all countries, and not all intellectuals, but the mainstream is.

This is why we need to understand, that there is a consequence to our actions, G-d do live, and there is a price to pay if you do not act humanely in this life, and that is the condemnation by spirit.

G-d bless the will to remain true and ethical in the face of evil.

When we trive for peace, we strive for utopia, because peace will only happen if we are so perfect in our ideas and organization, that all the best tools are put to use.

Is it possible to make utopia here on earth? To do that, you have to use ME. What is ME, ME is an ancient Mesopotamian idea. Basically it means civilization. That is a collection of rules and ideas that spur society onto a better path. Take the idea of the law. This idea was presented by the Babylonian king Nebuzhanezzar, and has been used ever since. It is just a part of civilization, but the Babylonians would call it a part of ME.

Then there is our form of governance, in Europe we prefer calling it democracy, but in other places and in other phases of history it was called other things. The point is, basically what we have been doing after the Babylonians and the Egyptians seized to function as progressive powers, is mixing the items of civilization around a little. In communism a Spartan priority was sought. A communal militaristic society without ownership and a strong state. But the law was still there, families still there, money, writing, science and so on. On the democratic side we have and still have ownership, a smaller state, freedom of speech, a strong focus on a positve use of science and so on. But basically all the different building blocks are the same.

Civilization remains more or less the same.

How do we then enact utopia? We do it by crafting a society where all the elements of ME are in a true balance. This is what I have been working on for some time. Making a good balance between state, religion, politics, media, law and science.

We are unbalanced. In some countries we have too much state, others a too corrupt state, some countries have too little law. But at the end of the day, it is basically all a matter of balance.

G-d bless the wisdom of the Babylonian.

I have had a dramatic increase in traffic on the blog, this is off cause good, but it has come to the point where the host is complaining about too much trafic. Today I was shut down for some time.

For now I have shut down some statistics tools and this increases the performance of the blog. But with the current rate of growth it will soon not be enough either.

So I urgently urge you to chip in and help rubicon.dk afloat. It is a non-profit blog, no one makes any money, in fact I pay the hosting myself.

To really host the blog on a secure and scalable server, the price will be much higher than what I pay now.

So please, chip in. All the money you pay to the blog, will be used at hosting, and to make it transparent, I will post how much people have payed to the blog.

Thank you very much for your help!

Asger

Another chapter in the never ending story of Danish crawing and sucking up to the Islamic State has just been revealed. Everybody else in the world are horrified by the brutality and the human callousness of the Islamic State. Even Muslims are appalled by the absurd conduct by the Islamists. So what do the Danish officials do about the problems, not mentioning the torture of my little girl to stop me criticizing their neo communist, pro Islamist stance?

They call the IS fighters, coming home form Syria, now brace yourself for the absurdity; volunteers!

As though a trip to Iraq killing yazidis, demolishing artifact that belong to humanity, raping young poor girls, slaughtering prisoners, is something positive!

Volunteering is going to places and helping other people, giving them relief, sharing your wealth and means, not hanging people by the rope!

So let us add all the acts of the Danish state up. First it was making a communist a minister, then it was inviting an Islamist preacher to Denmark at the 9/11, then it was torturing my little girl, now it is harbouring and supporting IS fighters. In Aarhus, where the openly IS mosque is situated, that is where they are calling IS fighters volunteers. Is that a coincidence?

I am just asking, and I am horrified that they get away with it, some partner indeed.

G-d bless the will to remain strong in fierce opposition and total moral collapse.

Sunni Muslims in general are extremely afraid of the rise of the Islamic State. It brings a lot of bad press to the Muslim community. And now it is not only the right wing, but also the left wing and centre that supports a forceful crackdown on all who are affilited with IS.

What will we do, us who are in knowing of a peaceful and humane Islam? I mean mr. al-Sisi the leader of Egypt is a kind man, he is also a sunni muslim, my uncle who builds bridges in Bangladesh and is a skilled engeneer is a muslim and a kind man, are they the same as Islamic State? Off cause not, and it will be a grave mistake to mix things up. We in the West should be able to discern between those who have gone all in on a jihadi revolutionary path, and those who accept and support a civilized and peaceful manner. In Egypt, there is a strong connection between the Copts, an ancient Christian denomination and the current president, in fact it is only due to Sisi that the Copts still exist in Egypt.

So there is another way, and we in the West should respect and support that.

G-d bless the will of spirit in its quest for humanity and peace.

Now the system and tool of loosing your citizenship if you are involved in islamist activity, has been accepted by mainstream politics. It works like this; if you are, in any way caught supporting IS, you are to loose the citizenship of that given country. If it is an organization, be it a charity ngo or mosque, all afillited with the organization should be expelled. If you are caught preparing jihad in Iraq or Syria after looking at an internetpage promoting that aim, you are to loose your citizenship immediately.

This will, if the forecasts are true, stop the activity and give the remaining muslims as well as other minorities room for a good and prosperous life within the frame of our democratic rights and possibilities.

There will be hardheaded islamist organizations in the country, who will refuse to follow the orders of the municipality, they will most probably start a guerilla fight to remain, or set up a caliphate. They should be met with the armed forces, who will fight down their caliphate, and let democratic rule descend upon the place again.

In this fight we can use our experience from the fight in Israel. The weakest spot of the islamists is their ledership. So we focus on the leaders, using hightech weaponry as drones and other mechanized arms. So again we need to wrap up R&D in small arms robotry.

War will pit the two sides against each other, so that the populace wil be divided into a democratic front as well as a caliphatist front. The war will continue for many years to come, and we will have to conduct it as humanely as possible. We therefor have to ensure, that all cases of prosecution should be done within the frame of our legal system. Islamists will have the right to defend themselves, and prove their innocence. If they lose their citizenship and have little material possensions, the states should help them economically with their new life in their old country. Again islamists who are not newcomers to the country cannot lose their citizenship, since they have, through their families, earned extra credit.

G-d bless the willingness to remain fair in a difficult situation.

We are finally coming around to the fact, that our entire societies are infiltrated by islamists, and we have to do something about it.

Well, this is basically a result of some of the work I started with Anders Gravers in SIAD. Both Anders and I had a clear idea about the threat of Islam at an early stage. We both have close connection to Muslims through family, so I believe we share a sound understanding of what Islam can also be in terms of sound family values and just people. Add to this a first hand knowledge of the strategies that was conducted early on, you could say we were ideological avantgarde. Now we are not avantgarde anymore, now we are mainstream.

Through the last seven years some of the critical stances we have had fell of deaf ears, because it came too early. But we have to use the ideas anyway, and though I hate repeating myself, I will do it anyway.

If we look at the domestic challenge with islamists, we should realize, that the problem is so large, that it will take some time to solve it. It will also cost a lot of money, resources and so on. But right now the situation is so critical, that we have no choice.

The numbers are also extremely scary. One openmouthed mosque here in Denmark openly supports Islamic State, and the really scary part is the fact, that no of the other mosques reject them. So we are in fact looking at a islamist penetration of around 100% in the sunni mosques. I have heard other numbers as 80% penetration and so on, and it is probably right. So the fighters that travel to Iraq and kill our journalists, are just the tiny tip of the iceberg. They are just the symptom not the real problem. The real problem is the huge number of Muslims in Europe that support them, and make it possible for them to move forward.

So what has happened? Well, we have been too naive, and known very little about Islam. On top of this, we have been weak due to the second world war and all the self esteem and pride we lost there.

At the end of the line, we are facing an existential threat. If we do nothing, with the birthrate of the muslim immigrants, they will have taken over our territory within the next twenty to thirty years.

So what do we do? Well first of all we have to work upon our own self worth. We have to rekindle the faith in democracy, in Christianity, in Judaism, and off cause support a humane Islam.
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We are heading for another round against the islamists. Here on 9/11 it is probably a good thing to walk down memory lane a bit.

9/11 was the first wake up call. In this confrontation we realized, that there was a new enemy out there, and mr. George Bush chose to enter into two wars to try and fight it. It did some good, but also some bad. But all in all, it was a spell for us to wake up from. For too long had we just chosen to ignore the fact that a radical islamic movement was forming and gaining strength worldwide.

I think Mr. George Bush got too little credit for his first try on beating Al-Queda. I believe in hindsight he will be given the honors that he is really entitled too. Instead of cawing in, he showed spirit, and though the rest of the world did not want to acknowledge the threat, he did, and almost fought single handedly with Osama bin Laden. This really laid out the groundwork that we are building on today.

So what was really the next step in the ongoing controversy between the West and the radical Sunnis, and some Shia? It was the Mohammed cartoon Crisis. In this crisis Denmark was really put on the front of international media, and mr. Anders Fogh also made quite a show of defending western values as freedom of speech. In this fight he also showed a lot of strength and intelligence. He will be commented for this in the history books as well. In btw. this was also the scene upon which I and my organization Stop Islamization of Denmark (together with mr. Anders Gravers) entered world politics. What was really the outcome of this crisis? It was a renewed focus on the ideological matters. In the Bush era, there was not much of ideology in the fight. Bush was a neocon, but at the end of the day, he just fought for his country, and had a feeling for the urgency of the task.

The ideological extension on the same war, was, in all humility my job. In SIAD I tried to analyze the confrontation, and ended up concluding, that we had a fight between two basic political ideologies. One the idea of a Muslim caliphate, two Democracy.

This really fueled the beginning of mr. Barack Obamas presidency, and was the ideological motor in the Libyan war. Remember? How they wielded the reflection of the tricolore? How the french fighter bombers went in without cover to land the first few bombs? It was a war for glory, as back two hundred years ago. It really strung a cord for both Americans and French gendameries.

So now we are here. The entire West has focused on the task at hand. But to the horror of the West, we realize, that they are not only in the Middle East, they are here among us. And that at a degree we have never though possible. 1000 British citizens fighting in Iraq. You have to add all the infrastructure, all the mosques, all the families in Britain that are backing the IS fighters, to really get a grip of the magnitude of the threat in Europe, to really realize the current threat.

The fact is, it has moved from a foreign problem, to a domestic problem. We have to come to grips with this reality, sooner or later, preferably sooner.

They are all over, they are raping our kids, and we havent even begun to do something about it.

Only rushing into Iraq, without a plan on the domestic situation, will just leave our kids in harms way. We should realize this.

G-d bless the will to see straight and be swift in action.

Well I forgot one player in the conflict in Europe this night, I am sorry about that. The crux of the conflict in Europe; Ukraine itself.

Ukraine wanted a liberation, some wanted to be part of The European Union others wanted to be part of Russia, and yet others just wanted Ukraine to be strong as a nation.

Ukraine has been caught up in the tensions between the old cold war players. And though Ukraine just wanted to be a happier place with less corruption, in the end it ended up in ethnic conflicts, though the etnicities are not that far from each other.

I tried my best to find a solution, making a compromise. In the end, it materialized as I envisioned it.

So please let me explain my motives for my council. First of all, as the days went past, and the Maidan revolution gained momentum, there was a breaking point, where there were no way back. It was either a diplomatic break or a break in terms of warshed.

In this situation, there was no way Ukriane could be held together. There was no way a solution could have been reached through a diplomatic deal. All there was left to do, was to try and land a solution without tearing all of Europe into pieces, this was the stakes.

In this proces, the selfesteem, of Ukraine has suffered, and the national basis has been hurt. Not to mention the hate and animosity that has been built up between the warring factions.

In conflict and war, you cannot always find a solution, where all are happy, sometimes you just have to find a solution where people do not kill each other.

I am sorry, I truly wished for a solution that was more joyful for all, but you got caught up in the big game, and that is a very dangerous place to be.

I now hope, that you may settle down, find peace, and realize, that in the end, it was just a stupid war. Perhaps in a generation or two, you will be good friends again.

May you have peace.

It has come to a conclusion in the current conflict between The European Union, the US and Russia. Many atrocities has been done on each side. Absurd theaters on the european side, with the Eurovision show and the bearded lady/man as the so called savior of Europe as the height of stupidity and folly.

Poor Rakel has not been saved, she still lives at the mercy of the disgusting prime minister of Denmark Thorning-Schmidt. But at least Schmidt has been ostrasized by the rest of the Western world.

I must say however, this is not the case with ms. Angela Merkel. She has done all a people could have asked of a true leader, and through her conduct given peace to Europe. This could not have been done without the wise conduct of mr. Putin, who steered through the entire crisis with an eye of peace, and an eye on the welthfare of the Russian people. He will rightfully be inscribed in the history books as the greatest leader of Russia in modern times. Turning a tidal wave so strong it seemed impossible, and giving the right amount of help to Russians in need of support. I salute you mr. Putin, may your legacy live to be praised by the people of Russia.

All there is left is me, and I must say, I have been the true looser in the sense of getting to a better place for me and my small family. Nothing has changed. My opponent in the face of the child torturing Thorning has been ostrasized, but Rakel is still at the mercy of the PET. An organization that has shunned all responsibility of the rise of IS here in Denmark, in fact it has just installed a homecoming cometee of psychologists to take care of the poor soldiers chopping of heads of Americans. Imagine the arrogance!

But, G-d willing this nightmare will end soon, one way or another.

G-d bless the will of the strong as he protects the weak.

The world is always in turmoil, then this side rises and challenges the other side, then it is the Romans against the Phoenicians, the Goths against the Romans, the Islamists against the Goths and the Danes.

The world changes in this way, so that the strongest survive. Not only on a small scale in a given habitat, but also of a greater scale with ideologies and different groups against each other.

We try to dampen this mechanism of the nature by putting in law, and protect the weak, but at the large scale usually this will do little. We have the UN, but it is also corrupted, and only if the guardians of the peace are truly strong in terms of wisdom and justice, will the mechanism actually work.

This is what Israel is supposed to do, and I hope we will improve this institution by constant vigilance and a sincere care for the world and its inhabitants.

We have just been through an enormous war in and around Israel, and I hope that all the participants feel that at least here from rubicon.dk we have been fair to all. Off cause I have to defend Israel, but it should always be with an eye on justice and honour.

This honour that is given to enemies and fighters is not something you can buy or change into material gains. It is a ressource that is gained as esteem in the eyes of the world.

This is what Hamas and Islamic jihad has actually reached.

On the other hand, Israel has reached peace.

This is a close as we get to a conclusion of the war with all parts feeling that their right has been obtained.

G-d bless the peace of humanity and the fairness that is the product of Israel.

Now there has been a lot of talk about strategy towards IS, everybody knows it is almost impossible to stop them, because they are already living amongst us. Recently a hapless old lady was killed in cold blood, just because she was in the way of a Muslim on a rampage.

But just because it is difficult does not mean we should not do anything. We, of cause have to solve the problem.

If we look at the underlying problem. We must realize, that the greatest problem is the fact that the Islamists use our own best principles to their advantage. We are not prone to cast people out of the country, because we feel sorry for them, we will protect their human rights and so on.

So we have tied our hands, ourselves. This we have to do away with. We will have to do what is necessary, like expelling people who are living in our countries, if they are criminal, are Islamists or in other ways threaten our society.
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Things are heating up in Europe, the terrible, terrible scandal of the grooming of all the hapless girls of Rotherham is a warning for all who are defined as protectors of Europe.

The reason why I have been excluded from the Danish society, in btw., is because if criticized some of the same behavior here in Denmark five years ago.

Now, if we look upon who are with and who are against the Islamic state here in Europe, first of all we should notice, that very few places have they actually claimed presence. They are there, but not really in the open.

Except for Denmark! One of the more radical Sunni mosques in a city called Aarhus has openly supported IS, making small badges available for their followers! In a total mockery of our Danish forces, they made a copy of a small badge we put on our cars to support our troops. Just a black one with an IS logo on it.

And you know what? Nobody reacted, only after two weeks did the police do something. Talk about being unprepared. Or when you think of it. It is not a matter being unprepared. They know, that is the infamous PET, they know they are there, they just choose to ignore it. Using all their resources to quell all critical stances towards their disgusting conduct.

So is Denmark a victim? Well you choose yourself whether you support this or that party in a conflict. If you choose to support IS, being well aware that they have just killed two American journalists in cold blood, well which side are you on?

If you add the fact that they have tortured a little Jewish girl, that the Jewish school in Copenhagen was recently attacked and no condemnation was heard by the authorities, except for a few minor politicians.

So what does this add up to?

If you look at it with open eyes, and with all rationality. It ads up to the fact, that Denmark, shelters and cooperates with IS supporters maybe even central parts of the IS leadership.

At the same time Denmark persecuted and tortures Jews, and is unresponsive to attacks on Jewish schools.

Shame on Denmark. Coming from a position in the Second World War where Denmark supported its Jews, to a position where it collaborates with the filth of the earth.

Beats me why they do it, but all who have just a bit of sense, should either see Denmark as an enemy, or at least put a great gap between themselves and Denmark in terms of diplomacy. Until they start protecting the Jews and stop the Islamic State.

G-d bless the will to be free.

To understand an enemy, you need to understand his mindset and his way of fighting. This I have done with Hamas and Islamic jihad, as a consequence they are falling apart. When lord Nelson bombed Copenhagen, he won but he did it with little honor.

So a victory can be honorful or dishonest. Hamas, Islamic jihad and behind them Iran have sued for peace. Let us give them that peace that let them keep their honor.

You do not win peace by dishonoring your opponent, you do it by giving him respect.

If we wish to keep the peace we have obtained, we should see that the deal we make will let our opponent keep his honor.

Why? Because this fight was not a fight to crush Hamas, it was a fight to stop the bombings of the south.

Most Arabs and Persians in the Middle East truly believe we are evil. We are not evil, and we should act with honesty and respect towards all, including our enemies. Only in this way will we truly win the peace. Because if our enemies see that we act according to ethical conduct, they will stop attacking us, because they know that we are not that threat they need to fight.

So I really recommend a peace deal that will give Hamas and Islamic jihad an honourable deal.

Victory will then not be a crushing of our enemy, but a deal that will make it possible for our children to go to school.

So what happens if Hamas reearms? Well, we control all traffic to Gaza, and Islamic state will soon reunite all of the world against them. So they will be the bad boy on the block. Hamas and Islamic jihad will be more or less small, small players not posing any threat to anybody.

G-d bless the benevolence of a true kind person.

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Well, mr. Barack Obama have been criticized for not delivering a comprehensive strategy to counter the threat of the Islamic state. Well, having worked on this problem for a very long time, and having listened and worked with my friend mr. Barack Obama, I dare to disagree.

First of all, it is not that simple, we are confronting an enemy we created ourselves, and the difficult challenge is in fact not facing the enemy with weapons or send marines after them. The difficult challenge is to change ourselves.

How did we end up here holed up in our own back yard with marauders laughing at us at they cut our throats and raped our daughters? We ended up here, because the last generation; the 68 put us here.

They preached love, forgiveness, tolerance by laying down our weapons and sing kumbaya. So we tried that, we reined in our military involvement to some extent, we tried to dissuade our military to do anything, we sang songs of peace, and hoped that the communist utopia with no boundaries, no ownership and total brotherhood would be the answer.

Well, here we are. Instead of giving us brotherhood it gave us a nightmare beyond belief.

In Europe the 68 have built up a strong system to enforce their ideology. Whenever someone dares to critisize their legacy a bit, they persecute that individual with all the tools of the state, and take away their honour by calling them racist. “Tolerance” has became a system of disgusting repression, taking away our freedom. Some countries are more hit than other with Sweden taking the lead.

What is wrong with this, apart from the absurd hypocracy? The problem is simply the quality of the ideas.

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Many thousand years ago, a Viking with the name of Beowulf, Bee wolf, hit the shores of ancient England. There an unimaginable force of deceit and evil was upon the scared ancient Englishmen. A horror called Grendel.

Yet again England looks upon its roots for salvation. Yet again the fair men of England is beset with a monster of evil and deceit, yet again the fear of the monster is what drives the English to loose their courage.

I urge you to look back into your history and remember the heroes of battles won in earlier generations. What was it, that gave them victory? What was it that saved the day for the green islands of beauty?

When lord Nelson faced the threat of he lumbering armada, slowly nearing the shores of England. What did he do with his able ships? He fought, day and night, through storm and stillwater, through dangers and horrors. And when he had his enemy at his will. He went in with a ferocious power. An old seaman indeed. Not afraid of being called this or that. But a fighter, so eager to finally meet his enemy, that he tore the Frenchmen to pieces.

This is England, unafraid of the dangers ahead, fighters at the grace of G-d.

Once again this spirit of England has to be awakened, to protect the maidens of England, so much at danger in every corner of England. How will they prevail, if they are not protected by the strong hand of her knight in shining armor? How will she keep her self esteem, her grace and due beauty.

All hands on deck! This would be the commandment of lord Nelson.

And so it shall sound again. Once again England is beset with another Grendel, once again will the freedom be attained only by the unity and bravery off all who call themselves English.

G-d bless the fair islands of the people of England.

So, we are around one month from destruction day in Europe, and two months from destruction day in the US. According to Saudi Arabia, the first attacks on European soil will come in a month, the US will be hit in two months.

So are we ready for this? Yes and no. Ideologically we have seen a huge shift in the mindset of the West. Coming from a locked down situation where the socialist hated the conservatives. We have actually found a huge middle ground in the fight against the Islamists.

Especially the conservatives have developed new ideas in Europe, and especially the liberals have developed new ideas in the US.

The common ground we have, is the fight for democracy against a destructive ideology called Islamism. In fact it is basically the radical part of Sunni Islam that is targeting everything that is not Sunni. I mean everybody. They do not discriminate. Either you are against them, or for them.

Now we can chose to underestimate them, or we can recognize the force or their challenge. They are numerous and the they are well armed. Europe is in a true danger of being toppled, not all of Europe, but Islamists will try to carve out their caliphates in a range of countries across Europe, the weakest states will be the first targets, then we each chose our destiny.

How do you counter a radical revolutionary ideology that have no boundaries to their conduct, and are entrenched in your own society?

You do it by rekindling your own values, and fight for what you believe in. They fight for the caliphate and control over all of the world. We fight for democracy, and our freedom.

We need to wrap up research and development in technical tools to counter the threat. It will be a small arms fight in many local areas in Europe. So we need technical solutions for a savage guerrilla warfare. Robots, exoskeleton suits and everything that will give us the edge over the Islamists.

In many countries the entire political as well as bureaucratical system is infiltrated, so the process of cleaning our systems, will be very painful and difficult. But there is no way around it. If the Islamists are in the system, we need to get them out, otherwise they will use their positions to gain advantage in terms of media coverage, ressources, physical backing (some places they have even infiltrated the police ), political support and so on.

But, warfare tends to sort out these things by itself, the public pressure on the allies of the Islamists in the system will be so forceful, that it will have to change. I mean, after a hundred Lee Rigby cases, people will get tired of the Scotland Yard trying to kill and silence the Tommy Robinsons.

I for one hope for a humane and responsible conduct. Remember we are only fighting people, who have homes, wifes, hopes for their children too. They are inhuman in their methods, but they are also humans themselves. An enemy is often just your enemy, because you stand in his way. He will try to take what is yours, because there is no room for both of you. He will use what tools is to his availability, in this case tools of unimaginable terror and horror, but evil is only his actions not necessarily his values.

G-d bless the will to remain human in a situation where all humanity disappear.

So the aftermath of the war against Hamas and Islamic jihad is starting. We are entering a period of reflection and soul searching. Did we do it right, was mr. Netanyahu wrong in this way or the other way. Let me be absolutely clear about this. Mr. Netanyahu did what he was recommended, and he did what he though was the right action at the right time. In the beginning he followed the advice of mr. Lieberman, after he recognized the fact, that a ground invasion was going in the wrong direction, I had the honor of his ear.

Fighting Cold War style is extremely difficult if you are strong in arms, and weak in the media. This was the odds we faced, we were weak in media and strong in arms. So the obvious strategy was to pound Hamas with all our strength, thereby giving Hamas all it could in terms of victory in the media, forcing Israel to a defeat through the intervention of the international community.

We however came out as a victor, because we saw through the plot, and held back at a critical time. This gave the scene to the Islamic State in international media, and we therefor put the fight to a slow halt.

As of now. There are many alliances that have actually shifted. Europe is behind Israel again, because we can see that the trouble Israel is facing is the same trouble we are facing, and this on scale unimaginable to Europeans. We have been living in peace for long, now we have to gear up to savage warfare in our own back yard. The Arabs nation is also behind us now. So the alliances we used to have have shifted tremendously to our favor.

This itself is a huge victory.

Hamas is a very small player internationally, we are one of the main players. So we should keep things in perspective. We are not fighting Hamas, we are fighting for our own survival in an international community where we are often fighting with our backs against the wall.

Looking ahead a few years, the strengths we have are more usable. The Islamic state have gotten a very bad start, and the entire world are actually fighting them. We are living right beside them, and we will be the spearhead of the West against them.

Thereby turning from a villain to a hero. That is a much healthier place.

So we need to keep things in perspective, and not be too harsh on each other. In a war there are rarely any true victors. All lose a lot, and it is only if we are warm at hearth and stop the belief that our enemies are evil, we will truly prevail, and keep a cool head.

But so far, I believe that we should applaud mr. Netanyahu for his courageous and wise leadership, he has won the day, and he should be treated as our finest hero in this time of need.

G-d bless our tiny world, with a flickering light to lead the world to unity and peace.

To determine who won the war between Israel and Hamas/Islamic Jihad, one needs to discuss what the criteria for a victory was. The thing is, both parties actually won. Hamas came from being totally out maneuvered to actually have some friends, and therefor has a serious comeback.

Israel went into the war to secure its southern flank, and stop the rockets from flying, this is exactly what has happened. We still need to see the ceasefire to be working. But if it works, it will have met the criteria for a victory for Israel as well. I did not intend this, in fact from the beginning of the war, I wanted Hamas to lose. But Hamas really won their own honor back, fighting pretty well.

We still need to see the peace deal settle, but with some serious diplomacy, it will hold. After all. If the war continues, Israel is set on a course of eliminating Hamas with the new tactics of going after the leadership in direct hits backed by the secret service.

Hamas can now choose which side it will support; the humane side or the neo caliphate side. It is up to them. If they choose peace and humanity, we will help in rebuilding Gaza, and hopefully maintain a lasting peace. If Hamas choose Islamic state, we will fight them. Not that it will be easy in any way, but this is what we do; defend the poor, the weak and those in need of support of a strong and warm hand.

G-d bless the will to meet peace.

The alliances are shifting these days, the official Sunni leadership have renounced the support to Hamas, due to the fact, that Hamas supported the Muslim Brotherhood. Loyalty matters.

I however hope, that Hamas finally finds themselves ready to make a peace deal. The thing is, it is over. There are no more support for Cold War style fighting. The entire system is finished, and the fight that is now commencing will put people into two camps, those against the destructive caliphate, and those for a humane and peaceful world.

There will be no tones of political affiliation in between, this is war, this is how war works.

It is almost last call, so unless Hamas finally gets serious about this, the war of attrition, that is taking its toll on the leadership of Hamas, will be continued to its final conclusion, that is the disbandment of Hamas, and the solution of peace that is possible with Fatah commenced.

You fought well, you deserve a good deal, but if you do not accept any deal, we are forced to continue the fighting. Not in a immoral way, but in a precise and focused way, targeting the leaders who are responsible.

G-d bless the peace we can find.

The conflict in Ukraine is slowly finding a new mode. Not just an ever increasing war of mutual animosity, but due to the personal involvement by Ms. Merkel, have the conflict been turned around. This is it, serious and constructive leadership that aim at a peaceful solution. It should be possible, this conflict is not about ideological conflicts, but about a regional stubbornness when it comes to sharing and giving.

What is wrong with accepting that some slavs have another language? What is wrong with plurality in a state? Why can a federalization not be a possible path.

I hereby give my hundred percent support to the efforts of Ms. Merkel in her attempt to create peace in Ukraine. A nation can have different languages, as long as the basic virtues of the state is respected and supported by the entire body of citizens.

This calls for reconciliation and understanding, not meaningless conflict.

G-d bless the will to make peace.

In the current war with the radical part of Sunni Islam, we have won one very important victory; the sympathy of the media. It was almost tipped over in the Gaza/Israel war, and had we lost the sympathy of the media, we would have lost the war on a greater scale.

In practice what has happened is a shift of tactics by the radical Sunnis. Before they used Cold War techniques as infiltration, media manipulation, propaganda and academic infiltration. It did them no good this time, because the bloggers of the world have become a counterpart to media, so that it is not possible to manipulate the entire populace of the west. Bottom line, all the Israeli/Gazan war has accomplished is a huge turnout in terms of support for IS.

IS does not play the Cold War game, it plays by the natural rules of conquest; kill or be killed, scare your enemy into submission, con him if you can. These tactics are as old as mankind, and have a certain effect on the weak minded as France who have succumbed to the threats of the IS, and bought back their prisoners.

In this kind of fight, what is needed is courage and stamina. There is no compromise, and if you succumb to the will of your enemy, he will see it as a sign of weakness, and he will, naturally target you as the next target, because theses savages will work according to the basic principle of nature; the rule of the strong.

So in the end, it ends up being much more a phychological game than only a game of military logistics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes music can express things more clearly than words.

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

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

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

These are my reflections.

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

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

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

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

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

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

G-d bless the peace we can make.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G-d bless the wisdom of the Egyptians.