Day by day

A second terror attack in two days. It is pretty clear that there are strong opponents against any kind of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and I am sure we have not seen the end of that. On the other hand, the Jewish settler bullies promise to continue building on their settlements and outposts as a mere answer to the terror attacks. This is how peace talks are shattered, and it is not the first time. It is a pattern. I just hope that there will not be another terror wave within Israeli territory.

I wish that leftist pro-Palestinians in Sweden and other European countries would realise that supporting the Palestinian resistance movement is not any more about achieving peace and a sovereign state for the Palestinian people. Hailing Hamas, equals supporting a fascistic and ultra-nationalistic regime whose ultimate goal is to eliminate Israel and to create a totalitarian, theocratic state that will oppress women, as well as persecuting anyone who will not abide to their mediaeval moral standards. Sometimes I wonder what drug dazed the minds of these notorious Israel-haters.

Speaking of drugs, I have previously tried to illustrate with words how it is to live in this intense region, where life is embraced like every day was the last one, for valid reasons! Lately I have seen several persons refer to it like the whole population being on drugs. Michael Totten have published some interesting interviews with people who have extensive experience from both Israel and Lebanon that pictures the parallel universes that seem to exist within a nation. The bright side is that most people choose life in this environment of dark forces of terror, oppressing power and continuous war.

A night-club in the Lebanese capital Beirut has made a commercial that expresses this contrast in a fascinating, but at the same time disturbing way. Lebanon is much more polarised than Israel, but Beirut is still in many ways comparable to Tel Aviv, where people dance their heads off although bombs can start dropping any minute.

We have aikido friends in Lebanon. I wish that we one day can take the car and drive straight up to Beirut and join for a freeing aikido session. First we need to withdraw from the drugs. However, the heaviest addicts have to be dealt with first, and that is people like Ahmadinejad, Nasrallah, Haniyeh and Meshal, who seem to go on a mix of crack, meth and PCP.