Bombs and Rockets, Alliances and Empires, Democracies and Nations. Dictatorships and Revolutionaries. All keep feeding the big Terror that mankind seems to need in order to live. Security can only be achieved through agreements. Agreements cannot be achieved by power, not standing ones at least.
Israel must be allowed to exist? Hezbollah must be allowed to kill? Iran must be allowed to develop Nuclear Energy? Europe must be allowed to keep its own cultural identity? USA msut be allowed to defend its national interest in the world?
I have deep respect for aid agency's, journalists, united nations observers and all others who keep trying to be unbiased within this ocean of statist, supranational, imperial, religious, ethnical and terrorist interests.
For an overview of issues The Daily Show has a small sketch:
Still, the best thing to do is to try and get as large a variety of sources possible and to focus and demand people surrounding you keep focussed on the overall human cost of war.
posted by jonathan even-zohar @ 15:12
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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.
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