The Jordanian dilemma after the war

         

Marwan Muasher

A whole year has passed since the Israeli war on Gaza, during which Israel has crossed all humanitarian, political and military boundaries.
The Israeli Prime Minister does not seem to have any clear strategy other than staying in power for as long as possible. After Israel's assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Netanyahu's popularity seems to be on the rise, which strengthens his ability to remain in power today. It is also not unlikely that he will seek to prolong the war for another reason, which is his unwillingness to give Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris any positive role in stopping the war and his preference to wait for the results of the US elections over Trump. If he wins, he will deal with him better than the Democrats, even with Biden's blatant support for Israel and providing it with all the weapons it needs to perpetuate the war.
But the war will end one way or another at some point. Post-war Jordan will face a major dilemma in terms of its approach to the future relationship with Israel. Official Jordan used a previously convincing justification in its promotion of signing a peace treaty with Israel to its citizens. This justification was that signing the treaty forced Israel to recognize the Jordanian state and Jordanian borders, which would bury the notion of an alternative homeland, which in practice meant emptying the Palestinian land of its population and claiming the existence of a Palestinian state in Jordan and not on Palestinian soil. Jordan even insisted on including in the treaty an explicit text against any attempt at mass displacement of the population (i.e. from the Palestinian territories to Jordan).
In addition, after Netanyahu and the extreme right came to power, the official Jordanian position was that Israel's stubborn position on the peace process did not represent the end of the road, and that Netanyahu would leave power at some point, and that Jordan should wait until a more flexible and balanced Israeli prime minister comes, which would allow for the resumption of talks with Israel about ways to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state.

The crossroads that Jordan will face is of great importance, which calls for a serious national dialogue about the future of the Jordanian-Israeli relationship.

The Israeli war on Gaza has greatly weakened both of these justifications. It has become clear that one of Israel’s main goals in the war is to get rid of as many Palestinians as possible in Gaza, either by direct killing or by making Gaza uninhabitable after Israel has destroyed all the necessities of life in the Strip, from road networks, electricity and water to schools, hospitals and places of worship. In addition, Israeli settlers in the West Bank continue to attack Palestinian population centers, with the support of the Israeli army, in blatant attempts to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, in preparation for creating or taking advantage of conditions that allow for displacement.
The second argument, which was hoping for the arrival of an Israeli prime minister with whom Jordan could reach an understanding regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state, also fell, especially after the Israeli Knesset passed a law last July, with the approval of all the main Israeli parties, both pro- and anti-Israel, against the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The current division in Israel is only between those who support Netanyahu and those who oppose Netanyahu. As for the Palestinian issue, there is a near-unanimous Israeli rejection of a Palestinian state. This stubborn Israeli popular and official position is not expected to change. Israeli society has been increasingly radicalized for more than twenty years, and there is no significant Israeli popular critical mass calling for peace, neither now nor in the foreseeable future.
Accordingly, Jordan faces a real dilemma in the post-war period. Resuming economic and security cooperation with Israel would expose the government to a direct confrontation with an angry and hostile public opinion, and would give Israel the impression that Jordan is not serious in its opposition to Israeli policies. Continuing Jordan’s current position, which is ahead of other Arab countries in terms of its harsh criticism of Israel, would expose it to serious pressure from the United States and others.
Hence, the outcome of the Jordanian elections is extremely important. Instead of being a stark expression of where Jordanian public opinion stands, the Jordanian decision-maker can use this outcome to resist any external pressures that Jordan may be exposed to.
The crossroads that Jordan will face is of great importance, which calls for a serious national dialogue on the future of the Jordanian-Israeli relationship. While the cancellation of the peace treaty may not be on the table for several reasons, studying the remaining options and choosing the best of them is a national necessity, because it is clear that returning to the status quo between Jordan and Israel before October 7 of last year is neither possible nor acceptable.

Former Jordanian Foreign Minister

A good and factual article by Mr. Muasher, it could as well transcribe to other Arab countries of the region.....           As usual, my many thanks to all for following and reading.    

HISTORY DIDN"T BEGIN OR END ON OCTOBER 7th

 
Dr. James J. Zogby ©
President
Arab American Institute

On October 7th, the continuing genocide in Gaza and the massive bombings in Lebanon will likely be ignored by US officials and media outlets as they solemnly commemorate the anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel.  What they’ll ignore is that the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict didn’t begin on October 7th, nor did the suffering end on that day. Nor did the ugly conflict in Lebanon and its blind mass killing and destructions start on Oct. 8th. 

October 7th was a horrific day, to be sure, of condemnable acts committed by Hamas against innocents. It is important that the stories of those who were murdered and those taken as hostages be told and that we hear their cries and mourn their loss. And it’s right that Hamas be condemned for the crimes they committed. But history didn’t start on that nightmarish day, and it certainly didn’t end there either. 

Since then, from what we know for certain, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed, 97,000 wounded, with upwards of 20,000 missing. Entire Palestinian families have been wiped out, neighborhoods leveled, most housing in Gaza has been destroyed along with its schools, hospitals, and infrastructure. Aid has been restricted, resulting in deaths from disease, starvation, and malnutrition. And all kinds of psychological disorders have taken hold resulting from prolonged trauma. What Israel has done we are told by respected international agencies is genocide—the destruction of a society, its culture, and well-being. And now the devastation and trauma are being extended to Lebanon. 

When America’s political leaders and media commemorate the horror of October 7th, what happened after that day will not be considered. What began on October 8th and continues until now will be ignored. Worse still, those who dare to speak of the tragedy that followed will be denounced for their insensitivity to Jewish suffering. It will be as if the cries of the Israeli victims will drown out those of the Palestinians. One people’s pain will be prioritized over another’s. It’s something that Arabs have come to expect: They are not seen as equal human beings.

 
To be crude, this is not making a case for Palestinians winning the Victimhood Olympics. Rather it is merely a reminder that Palestinian lives matter as much as Israeli lives and that history didn’t begin or end on October 7th. But this is not the story that will be told on that day, in the US media or in Congress or by the White House. And it’s not the way this story will enter our history books. 

It’s often noted that history, as it’s taught in a society, is written by the dominant group. The story that is told is a function of the perspective of the person who’s relating it. It’s how they see it from where they stand, and its meaning is determined by where they choose to start their narrative. 

When I was in school, the American history we learned began with Columbus’ “discovery” of what was termed “the New World.” “Indians” were savages and the “3/5ths compromise” was presented as a logical answer to how to count slaves in the census. 

The world history we studied was Eurocentric. Islam was a barbaric threat; China was a mere footnote “discovered by Marco Polo”; Genghis Khan was a marauder. And the British and French, we were told, brought civilization to the primitive people of the south and east. 
In reality, of course, the “New World” was populated with ancient civilizations that had built magnificent cultures, slavery was a barbaric institution, Islamic civilization taught the West a great deal, Genghis Khan was one of the great conveyors of culture from East to West, and colonialism was an evil that subjugated and exploited and distorted the economic and political development of the conquered nations. But that’s not the story that was taught, because those who wrote the history we learned in school began their story in 1492 and told it from the perspective of Americans or Europeans looking out at the world.

Back to October 7th. Palestinians have a tragic story to tell of dispossession, displacement, and horrific oppression that began a century ago. But here in the US, their story is not the dominant narrative. The nightmare they’ve lived isn’t understood or is outright rejected. 
In mid-October 2023 I had an encounter with a senior Biden administration official. After he spoke passionately about October 7th and the trauma it evoked for Jews everywhere, I told him I understood. I noted how my uncle, a US soldier in WWII, told me about what he saw on entering the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His stories and The Diary of Anne Frank, which I read in high school, helped me understand Jewish trauma and be understanding of their fears. I cautioned him, however, that there was another people who also had a history of trauma and that what Palestinians were seeing play out evoked for them the nightmare of the Nakba. We must, I insisted, be sensitive to the horror and trauma of both peoples. He angrily shot back, dismissing my observation saying that it smacked of “whataboutism.” I was stunned and angry. It was one thing for Israelis to feel that only their suffering matters and that anyone who attempts to distract from that one-sided view is either dismissive of Jewish pain or is defending those who inflict it. It’s quite another for US officials and major media figures to share this view. 

Public opinion in the US is changing with more Americans understanding the Palestinian story and empathizing with their pain. This broader view, however, has not taken hold in official political and media circles. They still see history through the eyes of only one side. For them, only Israeli lives and suffering matters and the story of the current tragedy began and ended on October 7th.

 
Yes, another factual and so very true article by Dr. J. Zogby, describing the actual horrific situation a full year down the line...... And now widening to brutally engulf Lebanon and possibly the entire region and the world. 

 
As always, my many thanks to all my good readers. 

DEBUNKING AND EXPOSING A FASCIST COLONIAL IDEOLOGY.....

This may be of interest, opinion of an Israeli jew turned anti Zionist.

 Alon Mizrahi

 Many times in the past months I've been asked, by so many people, what I thought was going to happen, or where things were going. My answer has always been the same: a bigger war was inevitable. Israel was going to launch a major offensive against Lebanon, then Iran.

 I even added a timeframe for that war: it was to happen in the fall of this year (2024), or by next year's spring at the latest. 

 Things have zigzagged in terms of a sense of an imminent conflagration, but now I think this view has become prevalent, if not dominant. Even Haaretz military analysts, traditionally critical of Netanyahu's government (to a degree) and Israel's security apparatus (to a much smaller degree) seem now to agree that 'Israel has no choice' but to start 'a limited war' against Hezbollah (hope you're laughing bitterly at this as I do).

 

 Two potentially related incidents from the last couple of days add to this growing feeling of imminent war: Iran's launch of a new satellite into orbit, and the Houthis' successful use of maneuvering and therefore uninterceptable hypersonic missile against Israel. 

 Iran and the Axis of Resistance it heads have access to high-quality, real-time intelligence on Israel, and a [proven ability to hit basically anywhere in it within minutes. These two developments alone shatter any previous balance of power (but they are not alone: Israel reaches this point weakened in so many different ways it needs a separate mega-post). 

 My assessment of the inevitability of a major war, though, did not and does not rely on an analysis of military capabilities. It is based on my intimate and extensive reading of Israel's psychology, and that of its messianic right wing (which only differ in degree, not in essence).

 You see, Netanyahu, Israel's government and establishments and the whole Zionist infrastructure don't live in the present moment, or the present place.

 They are not bluffing or pretending: for them, life is really and authentically made of holocaust speeches, imagined ancient kingdom bygone glories, and a future filled with domination and unshakable supremacy - the views that would get you forcibly institutionalized as an individual, but are somehow made to appear tolerable when an entire major Western political movement expresses them.

 Netanyahu grew up in a family of utter psychos and has been escorted by state security almost every minute of his adult life. He doesn't even know what normal life is. He's never been exposed to that. Every aspect of normalcy (marriage, children) in his life is a carefully cultivated insane lie. Netanyahu hasn't even seen a normal person his entire life; he's 100% a deluded sociopath with unlimited power over Israel and near unlimited power over US political and defense establishments.

 (By the way, and I don't want to expand on this now, but this metaphysical view of life, which irrevocably blurs one's judgment, is one of Judaism's biggest failures, or dangers; I will expand on that, as on other major themes mentioned here, separately.) 

 Politically in every sense of the word, but also as supported by religious and Zionist beliefs, Netanyahu and Israel have nowhere to go but over the cliff, in the hope that god (which is one with his holy spirit, the US) (the father being 'King David' and the son being Netanyahu in this Zionism Catholicism) intervenes and brings about their astronomically unlikely salvation and final triumph over global historic antisemitism (incarnated in poor Palestinian babies).

 

 In a more grounded political way, things are so fucked in Israel, these bunch of psychotic losers can't even imagine how to amend them. Netanyahu is entangled in a series of high corruption crimes; the settlements movement is unsustainable and globally furiously (deservedly) hated; the ultra-religious won't let any serious liberalization of Israel's Judaism come about but also won't partake fully in the Zionist holy ritual of military service; the Palestinian cause is drawing more sympathy by the day; Israel's entire military and expansionist philosophy is fully exposed and at a dead end: how can this group of depraved idiots even begin to cope with any of this? their safest and easiest bet is a big war, a US miraculous rescue, and a strategic reshuffle of everything. 

 That's exactly what's going to happen, but just not like they imagine it. Israel is going to lose a big conventional war and become politically, socially, and economically broken, guaranteed by US and Western 'support'.

 I am not sure Israel has more than a year or two to survive as a single recognizable political entity. The big war that its nature and leadership push toward is going to finally break it, after having completely and historically destroyed the reputation of everyone who had anything to do with it, from Balfour onward.

 

 The main victims of Zionism, the Palestinians, are going through a period of heightened pain and loss. In the long run, I think that it will be understood that this tragic option was better for them than an eternal unnoticed grind that would have sent them to their collective grave unknown and forgotten by humanity. After this catastrophe, I see a real chance of a new Palestine emerging from this - one that is not constantly wrecked by its internationally supported belligerent neighbor.

I've copied previously an article by Alon Mizrahi, this one would be my second, although it's couple months old, but it's predictions about Lebanon's involvement and expanding the war against all its neighbors, including Lebanon and Iran is obvious. More so after the devastating bombardments of central civilian areas of Beirut. It's very perceptive and describes very well the psych of the present Israeli regime, I'm very appreciative of his acute analysis.

My profound many thanks to all.  

POLITICIZING RELIGIONS.....

          "The flag of the State of Israel has no place on the flagpole of the "Peace Synagogue"

Georges Yoram Federmann, a psychiatrist and left-wing activist from Strasbourg, France, believes that the Strasbourg synagogue is equating Jews with the State of Israel by allowing the Israeli flag to fly. For him, religion should not be preempted by politics. 

Since the pogrom of October 7, the Israeli flag has been flying, along with the French flag, on the mast of the Great Synagogue on Avenue de la Paix-Simone Veil.

Although local Alsatian-Moselle law does not consider that displaying a foreign flag on a religious building constitutes an offence, I wonder about the message sent by the synagogue, to Jews and non-Jews.

I understand that this is a sign of solidarity with the State of Israel, painfully wounded on October 7, and a prayer for the release of the Israeli hostages still in the hands of Hamas.

But this symbol seems to me to be damaging today because it contributes to assimilating Jews and Israelis, and therefore to maintaining a confusion which contributes to the rise of anti-Semitism.

Yet in public debates, many are trying to make the distinction, particularly in this tense context, and while international criminal proceedings are being initiated against both the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, and against three Hamas leaders (two of whom have already been executed by Israel, which has taken justice into its own hands, once again).

"I do not recognize myself in any way in the massacres committed by the Israeli army"

Georges Federmann

As a French Jew, I do not recognize myself in any way in the justification of the massacres committed by the Israeli army for eleven months in Gaza. The intervention of the Israeli army in Gaza has caused the death of several tens of thousands of Palestinians, the vast majority of them women and children. It has organized the systematic destruction of homes and infrastructure, sparing neither schools nor hospitals, it has deliberately led to starving and depriving the population of care, while prohibiting access to the territory to the press. Cholera, polio and hepatitis A have reappeared. There is no hesitation in speaking of genocide. 

The essential fight against anti-Semitism, which is on the rise in France and Europe, can only suffer from this unnecessary violence. As a Jew, I refuse to be associated with it in the slightest.

As I denounce the crude amalgamations maintained by the bodies representing Judaism in France accusing of anti-Semitism those who criticize the policy of the Israeli government, an amalgamation of which LFI pays the price every day, with the obvious objective of weakening the New Popular Front.

As a Jew living in France, I support Jewish voices in Israel who speak of peace, condemn the war in Gaza, denounce the occupation, call for recognition of the national rights of the Palestinian people and for a peaceful solution which alone will bring dignity and security to the Palestinian and Israeli peoples.

I express my solidarity in particular with B'Tselem (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories), Breaking the Silence (bringing together former soldiers), Standing Together (campaigning for a common future between the two peoples), the young Israelis refusing to go and fight in Gaza or in the Occupied Territories and all those who oppose the criminal acts carried out by Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers.

Israel does not provide security for Jews around the world.

Georges Federmann

Israel is failing to ensure the safety of Jews around the world: by claiming to carry out the ongoing genocide in their name, it is confiscating their voice, endangering them, and generating anti-Semitism.

Not everyone is able to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and Israel's violence over the past year has fuelled this morbid confusion.

Generally speaking, places of worship should not be preempted by nations, even if they partly finance them. I find this appropriation questionable from the point of view of living together and the need, beyond our different beliefs, to affirm that we are a society.

And I console myself by deciphering the succession of celebrations and spiritual and religious symbols for harmony and peace, while questioning their constant and deadly diversions.

Since this is indeed the "Synagogue of Peace", I would like to remind you that Peace is unconditional for every sister and brother in humanity who populates the earth. It cannot be achieved under the conditions of the strongest embodied by the Israeli flag, for the moment. And the motto on the pediment: "Stronger than the sword is my spirit" must not remain a dead letter.

Georges Yoram Federmann

The original text by Mr. Federmann was published in French, I translated it and copied the article for our blog, as I found it to be very expressive of a current problem facing most non Zionist Jewish of multi nationalities in different countries and continents. 

As always, my gratitude for your following.

21st CENTURY CONSPIRACY THEORY ON THE GO.......?!?!?

 
Common interests alliance...
Written by an Iraqi writer.

1- I chose this title for my article, which is the title of a book by (Trita Parzi), an Iranian-American, in which he speaks objectively about the alliance of interests between Iran, America, and Israel, the old and renewed alliance. I am not obsessed with the conspiracy theory, but I believe in analysis based on information and data.

2- Information leaked after Haniyeh’s killing about an American delegation visiting Tehran carrying a decisive message, setting new rules for American-Iranian relations. Among what was leaked was that the delegation informed the Iranians of the following:
A- We must return immediately to the nuclear agreement.
B- It is not permissible to tamper with Israel’s security and American strategies in the region. You can respond to Haniyeh’s killing to relieve your embarrassment, and we are prepared to agree on specific targets to be bombed.
A- We allowed you to expand in the Middle East throughout the past decades because it was not harmful to us, but now you must coordinate with us directly.
D- If these conditions are not adhered to, the price is the downfall of the Iranian regime. All Iranian infrastructure sites will be targeted and taken out of service, which will inevitably lead to the launch of a popular revolution supported by America, and the regime will fall. If it is necessary to overthrow Bashar, we will do so, and the price of overthrowing him will not cost more than one missile targeting him, and the page of the Assad regime will be turned forever.
*The hypothesis that Haniyeh was liquidated by the Iranians has returned again after they announced their new agreements with the Americans. This is not ruled out at all. We also do not know whether the understanding with Iran took place before Haniyeh’s killing and in light of which Haniyeh was sacrificed, or whether it came after it.

3- The head of the Iranian regime received the message and continued negotiating with the Americans about it, which led to his involvement in a new deal with America to preserve his regime and also to ensure a smooth transfer of power to his son upon his death. A smooth transfer will not happen unless America turns a blind eye to this and allows the authorities to suppress the Iranian people, who will inevitably protest against this.

4- The deal entering into force: There are 4 data indicating the deal entering into force, which are:
A- Not responding to Haniyeh’s killing directly or shortly after, after they had repeatedly threatened through their guide.

B- Hezbollah’s weak response and its call for the residents of the south to return, which means a return to the previous rules of the game and the actual end of the escalation with Israel, while keeping some formal plays for local consumption.

C- Khamenei's announcement of returning to nuclear file negotiations!

D- Khamenei’s tweet about his confrontation with the Yazidi front (Sunni countries), this tweet is considered one of the most dangerous tweets issued by a Shiite figure since Sistani’s fatwa establishing the Popular Mobilization Forces, and this is even more dangerous.
He says in this fatwa that he will continue with his original job, which is igniting wars and sedition within the Islamic world, and that he has nothing to do with Israel and America, in exchange for continuing to turn a blind eye to my regional expansion and ensuring that his regime is not targeted.
With this tweet, Khamenei presented new credentials to America!!

5- If the Iranians respond to Israel’s request to secure the borders and control the armament of Syria and the militias in Syria and Lebanon, they will be very happy with this regime that has taken upon itself the destruction of the Arabs and Muslims (Sunnis).

6- The regime will resort to new escalations against the countries of the region to prove to the Americans that it has returned to its old seditious role.
The targeted areas, in my estimation, will be:
A- Iraqi Kurdistan: Because of their Sunnism, the Kurds are classified as one of the sides of the targeted Yazidi front, and the escalation in the files of the Kurds of Iraq and Syria, which are strategically targeted by Turkey, will occupy the region with futile wars that will comfort Israel and discipline the rebels against America from the countries of the region.
B- Jordan: One of the fronts that the axis will work to heat up
(May God protect Jordan, the Kurds, and all countries in the region from the tampering of sectarians).
C- The Gulf: The third Yazidi front (according to the false Khamenei) that will be heated up.

8- The Houthis: They have two missions:
The first is to attack the Gulf and Saudi Arabia in particular and besiege Egypt.
Second: Conducting virtual wars and maneuvers with NATO to test its weapons and capabilities, in preparation for possible larger wars with China or Russia. The maneuvers that the Houthis are conducting with NATO inevitably have side effects, but their benefits are greater. In order for the play not to be revealed, some interests must be sacrificed.

8- Israel: One of the goals of establishing Israel is: managing the political, military and societal balances in the Middle East. Israel has somewhat failed in this mission and has remained completely isolated, while Iran has played roles that have impressed the West by causing strife and fragmenting countries in the Middle East, which Israel has failed to do. I believe there is a re-evaluation of the Israeli and Iranian roles in the Islamic world, and I believe Iran is closer to the West’s mind and interests than Israel.

9- America: Despite the identification and coordination between America and Iran, America does not leave or neglect because it is the most powerful country in the world, and therefore it is necessary to work diligently with it and within it to mitigate the damage.

10- The proposal:

A- The weak point of the Iranian regime is the regular war between it and any country (between two countries), so it goes to support the militias and avoids direct war, because the war of countries will target its facilities and infrastructure, which will allow its people to rise up and attack it.
B- Purchasing missiles and drones is not expensive!!!
C- The Gulf States and Turkey must work with Pakistan and Afghanistan and put their differences aside, as the matter is serious!! And build an alliance from the republics of northeastern Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to create a balance with Iran. This will be a great alliance if Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sponsor it!
D- There is no doubt that Israel has a positive role in urging the West to confront Iran, but this policy is not fixed. Do not put all your eggs in the Israeli basket. Israel has specific demands, and if they are met, it will be the closest ally to Iran and its destructive role.
The work of the lobbies opposing the Iranian lobby in America must be strengthened, because this lobby was an important sponsor for building the strategic relationship between America and Iran.

Difficult days are coming and God is our helper... 

 A layman Sunni acceptance of this logic and full conspiracy scheme is gaining ground throughout the wider Middle-East, more people are accepting and expressing it loudly, consequently many political leaders are following, of course nothing on the ground is disproving the theory, not till now at least, only to make the entire situation more tense, volatile and very dangerous....   

As always, my many thanks to all my good readers. 

A REALITY CHECK....AN ONGOING SCENARIO.....

 
What to remember from the past few weeks operations and the new attacks on the West Bank, the stalling but continuing genocidal acts. Apart from the demonstrative side on both sides, for the past more than 10 months of this conflict, the choreography of all major events, players and armed conflicts had been perfectly executed by all parties. Now remains to see, who is the main orchestrator behind it all directing all players... 

- Netanyahu restores his image with the help of the Pasdaran intelligentsia, diverts attention from the massacres in Gaza, unites Israeli ranks, attacks major parts of the West Bank, continuing Israel's genocide/transfer policies,  repositions himself in the role of the victim vis-à-vis the West, and places himself in the continuity of the myth of the invincibility and invulnerability of Israel (Ben Gurion/Dayan/Sharon). 

It is obvious that the actual Israeli regime and Netanyahu wat to change the actual geography of the region and aggrandize Israel, one further step in the grand Israel scheme, how far will they and he be allowed is not clear, plus was it an original accepted plan by all parties, or just a newer trying possibility exploited by Netanyahu.    

- Tehran restores its image with the help of Biden and Netanyahu, consolidates its (mythical) status as spearhead of the Palestinian cause in place of the Arab countries, makes people forget Saddam Hussein's strike in 1991, screams " divine victory" in front of its flock to unite the Arabiya front and consolidate its presence within the Persian Empire itself (we should probably expect new assassinations?), but above all shows the still recalcitrant Arab countries (much more than to Israel) what could await them in terms of attack with their ballistic and… nuclear program.

- Biden, thanks to this show, establishes himself as a peacemaker with respect to American public opinion and as an ally of Israel, overtaking Trump on the right with a view to the US presidential election, and, who knows, the pseudo escalation/de-escalation  this past week, could serve as the beginning of a global/regional de-escalation through diplomatic channels in the “neither victor nor vanquished” mode. It could even prove useful for a de-escalation of a tight situation in Ukraine, or so every party hopes. 

The only big losers from yesterday's operation are the Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis and Yemeni people, who are nothing but cannon fodder for the great pleasure of the Netanyahu-Khamenei duo, or the jerky and passionate tango of crypto sadistic rise to extremes at the expense of civilian children, parents and grand parents.

Finally, a question: how many saved children lives, and imprisoned Palestinian saved from torture, rape and systematic dehumanization, how many shelters for Gaza and for the inhabitants of South Lebanon, and now the West Bank, could have been built with all the money that was squandered on bravado and displays of force by the Persian bully-boys and their local minions, versus or in tandem with the creative duo Israeli/American brilliant paths. 

A heck of a short report on the melodramatic and well choreographed situation between Israel and it's neighbors and Iran, a win/win situation to all, well supervised and probably partly inspired by the U.S. and possibly some of it's allies, such a nice play, it will be shameful if one minor part or side spoils it.....

As always, my profound and many thanks to all my good readers. 

YOU AND ME ...

1 - I am not you.
2- It is not a condition that you be convinced of what I am convinced of.
3- You don't have to see what I see.
4- Difference is a natural thing in life.
5- It is impossible to see at a 360 degree angle.
6- Knowing people in order to coexist with them, not to change them.
7 - The difference in people’s styles is positive and complementary.
8 - What you are suitable for, I may not be suitable for.
9- The situation and event change people’s style.
10 - My understanding of you does not mean being convinced by what you say.
11-What bothers you may not bother me.
12 - Dialogue is to shed light on the idea, not necessarily to convince the interviewer of it, and certainly not to force it.
13- Help me clarify my opinion.
14 - Do not stop at my words and understand my meaning.
15- Do not judge me based on my passing words or behavior.
16 - Do not look for my mistakes.
17- Do not play the role of professor.
18- Help me understand your point of view.
19 - Accept me as I am so that I can accept you as you are.
20 - A person only interacts with those who are different from him.
21 - The difference in colors gives beauty to the painting.
22- Treat me the way you would like me to treat you.
23 - The effectiveness of your hands lies in their difference and contrast.
24 - Life is based on duality.
25 - You are part of a whole in the system of life.
26 - The football game is played with two different teams.
27 - Difference is independence within the system.
28 - Your son is not you and his time is not your time.
29 - Your wife or husband is opposite, not identical.
30 - If people were of one mind, creativity would be killed.
31 - The abundance of controls paralyzes human movement.
32- People need appreciation, motivation and thanks.
33- Do not underestimate the work of others.
34- Search for my rightness, for my mistakes are normal.
35- Look at the positive side of my personality.
36 - Let your motto and conviction in life be: People are dominated by goodness, love and kindness.
37-Smile and look at people with respect and appreciation.
38-I am helpless without you.
39 - If you were not different, I would not be different.
40 - Man is not devoid of weaknesses.
41 - If it were not for my needs and weakness, you would not have succeeded.
42 - I do not see my face, but you see it.
43 - If you have my back, I will have yours.
44 - You and I get the work done quickly and with minimal effort.
45 - Life accommodates me, you, and others.
46 - What exists is enough for everyone.
47- You cannot eat more than you fill your stomach.
48 - Just as you have a right, others have a right as well.
49-You can change yourself but you cannot change me.
50 - Accept the differences of others and develop yourself.

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