CLEAR SIGNS OF OUR TIMES ......

The West in general , and the U.S. more particularly was always much more interested in building and preserving capitalism , even through brutal regimes and dictatorships , rather than advancing the cause and the drive to secularism and modern societies .


Most Arab Musslems , until lately , were at a cross-road and closer to accepting a fair alliance or cohabitation with secularism and modernity in most of the post WW2  countries , the recent rise of salafism and fanaticism , through groups like AlQaida , ISIS and others , were basically tolerated and often fueled by the West , headed by the U.S. for different reasons , among them few decades back the fight against the great evil ; communist Russia . Lately it was more to suit some Arab Sunni regimes against Shiite Iraq , and Assad of Syria . Not to neglect a clear Israeli influence , meddling and destroying any and every neighboring entity , allowing itself an easier take-over of more territories and wealth for their own hegemonic agendas .


Western imperialism , fueled and backed always by blind capitalism , is being paid back nowadays in grand terms . Their closest allies in the Middle-East ; the Saudi and Gulf states are being denounced daily , and weakening by the year , the West is under a constant terrorist threat that is not relinquishing , but increasing , with no stop in sight . The militarization , radicalization and brain washing of whole segments of Israeli youths , turning them systematically into religious brutal fanatics and racists , as it is happening to a lesser degree in most of the West is frightening .


The Christian West , that did it some 75 years ago to Jews , is being brainwashed to start again against Musslems nowadays , and maybe re-do the same with Jews later down the line when the big less than a century old slogan of Judeo- Christianism falls down . A Frankenstein monster is slowly waking up  in the West , as it surely woke-up in Israel and all its neighbors , and nobody is paying enough attention .


A good advise to the West in general and the U.S. , and mostly applicable to present day Israel , came from Noam Chomsky ; "Every body's worried about stopping terrorism nowadays , well ! there's a really easy and effective way : stop participating in it ."   Montesquieu thought that events were never caused by accidents , whenever a local or worldly state of affairs or regime arise or is destroyed , a cause is always existent which led to this situation or regime destruction .


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ADJUSTING TO A NEW TREND ........

Suicide bombers , their explosive belts and detonators , until recently was a reduced and specialized game restricted to few areas and cities of our troubled world . Afghanistan and Iraq were the two mostly hit by this type of modern day deadly kamikazing . From  these two areas , the whole game  is now spreading exponentially to practically cover every part of the world .


Under different shapes and motives ; Syria , Lebanon , Libya , Yemen , Somalia , Thailand , France as well as many European cities , Russia and of course the U.S. were all hit in the past two decades . It is spreading further and faster with enhanced techniques of mass destruction and blind indiscriminate killing , at the hands of various fanatical sick people , and for various different motives and goals .


Of course the most spread model nowadays , are the jihadi Islamists of Al Qaida , ISIS and similar types of ultra fanatical Sunni and Shiite  groups and parties , with a different intensity depending on actual political/religious circumstances . But as we witnessed in the U.S. , Europe and Scandinavia , the trend and motives of other types of mass killers , could be very different from Islamic motives and goals , albeit they all share a certain degree of religiosity .


The Middle-East in its entirety seems nowadays destined to experiment with a multitude of historic and modern times experiences simultaneously ; from old dreams of hegemonic empires , to holy wars , foreign invasions and domination , colonialism and manipulation . Creating and enhancing a total sectarian conflict , where all are against all , fueling ethnic fervor and religious backed legal terrorism and killings. Israeli terrorism back then and under its modern forms was for a long time and still is a good model to look forward to by many aspiring sick terrorists .


The world populations are still in denial , refusing to accept that this trend is here to stay , be with us and be part of our lives , even prosper with coming generations , as it is the weapon of choice of the poorer majority and psychopathic religious minds , a very efficient use of weaponry , serving grandiose godly slogans , dreams and covenants. The world invariably is going to witness more Islamic barbarism and brutality as a result of so many brain washed young musslems , spread all over the continents . Other young fanatics of other religions and races are not in short numbers either .


No matter what we do from now on , (short of seriously solving conflicts all over , and by force when necessary)  will be efficient and capable of stopping mass terrorism and suicidal youth from blowing themselves and many others willingly , unfortunately it's a trend of our times and futures .


Yes , we all strongly agree that what happened in Paris on Friday the 13th was tragic and painful , but compare it to events in Syria , Iraq , Palestine , Yemen and Lebanon , then Paris sounds less tragic , it's all relative isn't it !!!


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KILLER WAVES .......

 Observing nowadays one of  modern times biggest tragedies ; the waves of immigrants of all ages , genders and different religious and ethnic backgrounds , mostly from Syria , as well as Iraq , Afghanistan , Africa and other unfortunate regions of our planet . One cannot but ponder while looking at these sad pictures and documentary clips , all over the international media .


5 years down the line in Syria , and since the absurd invasion of Iraq , men and women , especially kids and infants , would at the early stages of their conflicts fight and suffer in order not to die . Now they suffer and fight in order to live .


There is a huge difference between fighting to avoid death , and fighting to cling to life , to quote Malaparte's  words ; men  who fight to avoid death preserve their dignities and pride , men women and children fighting  in order to live hang to what remains to human life with tenacity of total desperation . At start men would fight to save their pride , freedom of conscience and dignity , later in the game , fleeing men have to fight in order to live , It's a humiliating  necessity and condition for preserving life and only to  save one's skin .


Observing the barbaric wars in Syria , Iraq , Yemen and Israel/Palestine , where civilization totally gave way , where what's left are only hungry animals , ready and willing to do anything to go on living their way .


For some in those lands , their Islamic faith , based on a total acceptance of godly providence , makes it easier to endure and go on living , accepting god's will and his wrath upon their lives . for Israelites religion renders them immune to conscience and morality questioning , for war lords on all sides , their brutality , blood-thirst and hegemonic ambitions form the supreme aesthetic experience .


Nothing makes men so mutually hostile , so barbaric in their acts , as the violence of civil religious wars . Their most primitive animalistic  impulses return to surface and all their inhibitions disappear .  Their savagery , totally eclipse the civilized , only the human animal remains , forever at war with itself and everything around it .


A better , higher and nobler order of reality must exist , for the survival of the human race on earth . We cannot , and should never accept that geopolitical chaos might be the rule , nor the finality , the world has to be a politically rational place to survive and strive . The whole of the Middle-East must sooner than later reach an equilibrium , even if it means seeking its order in diversity , or else it will be in a constant state of warfare .


The very young Syrian child or toddler , clinging to his mother's robe in an over crowded dinghy , facing killer waves , large at sea , as is the infant in an under occupation West Bank alley , only longs for some freedom , freedom from vicious inhuman situations , hunger , and a lack of livable future ,  while thinking to itself that humans are incurably irrational , ruthless and incorrigible .


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THE TRUE KEEPERS .......

Islam like practically all other religions , belong in our times to the populace , to the limited and ignorant interpreters , to the uneducated and non thinkers .  This is why it will be a very hard task for all Musslems to accept reshaping or rethinking it's laws , regulations and various metaphors , to suit modernity and the 21st century evolving mind .


All religions , especially the 3 surviving monotheistic ones in our times share this aspect , as fewer and continuously  less educated thinkers are seriously taking over in theological and historical preaching  , rendering the words , metaphors , myths and doctrines belonging to thousands of years back meaningless for modern people . Only the folklore and the primitive brutality of it all persist today .


It is a sign of our modernity whereby lower classes in education and social status as well as financial status , are the ones assuming religiosity and trying to apply its regulations to actual lives through various degrees of literalism and fanaticism . All religions come originally with a sense of supremacy , internally built with mechanisms of disdain to others , almost dehumanizing the non adherents , it's only later in their cycles that maturity and respect take hold and manage to survive along other faiths and secular institutions and laws .  This is always achieved at the hands of higher and better thinkers and not the populace .


Unfortunately neither Islam nor Judaism have in our times achieved these levels , they are both still living old dreams of hegemony , brutality and religious theocracies , at the hands of their general uneducated populace and their ignorant manipulators . Rural Arab masses are generally Musslems and will be for a long time the keepers and procrastinators of archaic Islam , so are a whole class of religious poorer Jews ,manifesting themselves in Orthodoxy or as settlers , who are de facto the custodians and promoters of old biblical supremacy , vengeance and blind brutality .


Religions in general are loosing the ability to renew themselves as the myth of progress , and in our times religions and dogmas are not identified with the increase of education , knowledge , wealth and power . The peasantry , the commoners , call them the lower castes if you will have the upper hands , by letting themselves be manipulated and brain washed by few ignorant interpreters and  profiteer  politicians thirsty for blood and power . All of course working for God's glory .


It used to be called " the tyranny of the masses" , now in modern times , religions and religiosity are practically  the only power left to the populace and masses , giving them the power of vengeance against all others and all forms of progress and modernity . The major problem with the masses and religions and their books , is that the populace can only grasp and apply the words literally , for the day to day life and its details , but fail almost totally at the metaphysical and philosophical meditative levels .  We seriously risk loosing our world to these forces by keeping our minds shut . 




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WHY DO THEY HATE US ???

Many Israeli Jews nowadays are frequently asking themselves this very question ; why do Palestinians  hate us so much ??  With the forever  re-escalating cycle of violence in Israel  and in its 50 years occupied territories .


Consequently I cannot  conceal  my anger  and bewilderment at  Mr. Netanyahu's latest speech to Jewish leaders yesterday ,  the most proven of Neocons and hating Israeli politician , falsely claimed that the back then Palestinian religious leader , inspired Hitler and instigated , even established the Holocausts . This could only come at a time like this from a totally blind hating , extremely fanatical Zionist leader .


A fanatic religious creator of the new apartheid policies and methodologies , serving only to solidify his convictions of total hegemony and annihilation of the whole Palestinian population , acquiring their lands , waters and wealth , and accommodating his own Jewish poorer immigrants as permanent illegal settlers on other peoples lands .


I wonder if anti immigration sentiments and their perpetrators in the western world nowadays can see some similarities and comic comparisons from these barbaric acts and violent pictures .  Don't Israelis in particular and Jews  in general  realize that their country , their acts , their brutal hegemony , their blunt thefts , all under an archaic colonialism and a brutal apartheid system  , renders them as the most racist and intolerant society in the world ?


Racism exist up to different levels everywhere , and the Western world is not innocent at all of its consequences  whether in the past or now , but in Israel it takes new and grave meanings and applications , as it is institutionalized , it is in the words and spirit of their laws and judiciary system , it is in their schools since the youngest ages , in their media and their social everyday behaviors and life , some know it and turn a blind eye , and some do not know and somehow honestly believe they are only defending themselves against a perpetual persecution by all others .


No conscientious normal person , whether a Jew , Israeli or citizen of the 21st century world , can be honestly proud of all of what is happening in Israel  and its military colonization of other entities and their entire population .


 The world will not solve this situation any time soon , as it is still living under its guilt feelings of the past 20th century's bad acts toward the Jews . Only Israelis themselves can put an end to this modern saga , realizing their own craze and brutality , and stopping the ever lasting continual "blame others" game , high time to put and end to this century old occupation , oppression and colonial domination , and come up with civilized solutions to a not too impossible and unsolvable on the ground dilemma .


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MANIPULATION ......

----  We are experiencing nowadays in our modern times , the death of reason , compassion and tolerance . This death is being perpetrated and admitted calmly and unemotionally by the majority of humanity . Are we turning into the night of the world ?? A world where reason and tolerance are absent , where compassion and rationalism withdrew themselves and retired . As the sun sets below the horizon , the old adage "We are living in a godless world " is reversing itself  into " We live in a world of too many gods " And they surely don't like each other , on the contrary , we could safely assume that they hate each other .
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----  In my Sept. 26th  blog " Reality or fiction " I foretold a future road map for the Republican party , inspired by the surprise resignation of the house's speaker John Boehner .  This past week his likely de facto successor Kevin McCarthy , possibly the only centrist conservative member capable of reuniting the party's right , ultra right and moderates resigned in another surprise move as well , confirming a pattern initiated earlier with Eric Cantor , and now continuing with Paul Ryan .


A pattern , only deepening the divide , and hastening the moderate core caucus move facing the young and aggressive ultra conservative right ,and the Tea partier . I still see and predict a strong corrective act coming . In other parts of the world they might call it a coup , or a counter coup to regain leadership and put the party in a correct path for the future , what ever we call it , we know that all roads lead to Rome . If something of the sort doesn't start shaping up soon , the GOP and certain aspects of American life could brace themselves for chaos and dysfunction .
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---- From Hemingway's "Winner take nothing " (1933) , the finishing lines of one of his short stories,  a monologue of his hero , a waiter in a Spanish café ; " Turning  the electric lights , he continued the conversation with himself .... what did he fear ? It was not fear or dread . It was a nothing that he knew too well . It was all a nothing and man was nothing too . Some lived in it and never felt it , but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada .  Our nada , who are in nada , nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is nada . Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada".


The playful repetition and manipulation of "nada" the Spanish word for nothing , and the transforming and mixing nothingness with the two conventional Christian prayers  I find very exciting  in Hemingway's work and brightness . He finishes his same short story with " Hail nothing , full of nothing , nothing is thee ...."  A very exciting work , as I as well believe in nothingness before , during and in the after .


The world contains plants , animals , stones and sand , planets and stars , all these are things , their existence , acts , visions , pasts/futures , sufferings , foolishness and cruelties , are all nothings and fall into the void of nothingness .    My usual thanks for your times and help spreading the word .          

THE WAY IT IS .......

Many or  most Musslems around the world , still believe or pretend that their religion is one of absolute tolerance , love and compassion .  Most Jews think in those lines as well , and do believe that the main content of Hebraism is its energy and will toward morality and tolerance .


To most adherents of both faiths and their books , this view is still prevalent today as it was falsely throughout history .The world in its entirety is still bewildered and does not dare addressing and challenging these pretensions . Both , official countries and popular groups still timidly hide behind a wall of silence , and cannot openly discredit , nor show the non validity of both religions' claims .


Christianity , ranks just behind them two in acts of brutality and barbarism , albeit mostly committed hundreds of years ago , even literally one thousand years ago during the holy crusades . The former two are reviving the original historic sentiments of brutality and hegemony .


All three Monotheistic religions are surely interacted in more aspects than each would like to admit . The  Hebraic school of thought and its offshoot Islam are far less Hellenized than Christianity , Islam more than the other two bases itself totally on faith , and places faith way above reason . Actually in all three , the man of faith is way above the man of reason , but Islam goes further in condemning and banning independent and free reasoning .


To put all this into perspective ; let's take the shrewd Christian miracle " That the son of God is born as man , dies for our sins , and rises from the dead only to come back one day for us ." For modern reasoning thinkers , it is foolishness . To the Jews on the other hand it is a blasphemous scandal with no proof what so ever . To Musslems all over it is total sacrilege and heresy . Jesus has to be a regular prophet like all others , and abide by religious accepted norms and rules . Otherwise he would be superior to all , playing messiah or son of God  is not acceptable to all others , the Musslem prophet actually shut and limited God's will and power for ever by declaring himself the last prophet to be . Of course no reasoning here is permitted , only blind faith and total submission from all .


Looking at our world today , the whole world and more so the modern Middle-East , is back into mixing politics and governance with religion , reviving the old theological adage " of blind faith against reason " unfortunately the rest of the world is only timidly watching . Catholics against Protestants recently in northern Ireland , Russian reemerging Orthodoxism , Christians versus Musslems , and Shiia against Sunni in Lebanon , Sunni mortally against Shiites and vice-versa in Iraq , Syria , Yemen , Musslems against Copts in Egypt , Jews against Christians and Musslems in Palestine and Israel , Ukraine and the ex Yugoslavia , Burma and the Philippines , the list could go on and on ....


Institutionalising religions and religious beliefs as a way of life , whether in the Saudi example or the 6th century hocus pocus Islamic models , the Hebraic or Iranian instances , are all with  no exception recipes for disaster , and a clear total bankruptcy of advanced culture , maturity and human tolerance . We cannot keep adamantly denying , that religions and their followers are behind most of the world ills , historically and in our present times . It will be very stupid indeed if a major third world war type starts because of religious fervor , fanaticism and blindness .


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