Time Flies

So (almost) no one felt pressed into respnding to the identification post. Not so weird considering the current terrorism-led U.S.A. by Bush. These weeks have been very interesting and I have learned much. I now know that the Chinese are making an old communist empire into a vast capitalistic bureaucracy where humanrights is something you must earn. Yet they do seem to be doing a good job on the state/chuch division. The message delivired here at Leiden a month ago by a high-ranking Chinese diplomat was: Don't be afraid, we wish to grow peacefully. My friend's father works in China and is eyewitness to mass corruption in the energy-saving mechanisms and other Kyoto-bs. Seems the Chinese don't really give about CO2, while winning the hearts&minds of the world population.
Furthermore, times are uniquely boring in the ever-not-deciding-on-anything-Europe. Merkel might be a good diplomat outside of Europe, but real issues like Afgahnistan, Iran, Iraq, Former-Yugoslavia are rarely discussed. And if so, all the weight remains with the nationstates.
The Israel has lost its big fat leader to his big fat hart. Kadima now runs the country as Likud ministers just stepped out of office to 'prepare' themselves for the coming campaign, for which I can actually vote! I am considering the green leaf party, for real. As for my own position on IL-politics, i think consolidation of the State of Israel is the only real option and there is an ideological apple to bite. Israel must denounce its Jewish nature if it wishes to truly survive the next century with less stress. The only real way in doing so is downsizing the army and tag the nation multicultural, and not monotheistically jewish....we'll see when the oil is gone in 40 yrs orso.







It was after the Gulf War that his mother and boyfriend at the time decided to 'descend' from the Holy land and set sail towards The Hague, being the birthplace of Even-Zohars
mother. Jonathan managed well in Grade school and High school, so the
next logical step was the University, the infinite source of knowledge.
After speculating on Industrial Design, Social Geography and Journalism
it was the study of History at Leiden that turned out to be his
decision.
Now, four years into the study, matters have only become more
complicated as this student advances towards World History; meaning the
complete array of fields a historian may implement in explaining the
entire past of the entire world to fellow men. It is especially the
philosophical character of World History that attracted Jonathan.
For him there is only one question that stands above all others like a
lonely chuchtower in some Flemish village, which asks the cause of the
Western Rise and the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the role of the
European self- and worldimage throughout its history may explain the
role of Europe in the Eurasian Human Web. Thus, the direct contact
between Islam and Christianity is to be investigated. Were Muslims
constantly on the verge of invading Europe? How did Arab people perceive
the 'barbaric' Christians? How was Science spread and how did the West
pick up knowledge form the Arabs or from further East? Europe and the
Islam are still not at peace, certainly not in the mind.