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Here's the other side of the story in the Middle East. This is the side of the Palestinian people, who are also refugees. I feel for them greatly. They do not have a good situation, and it should be better. I do not agree with their solution, though. Both sides, the Palestinians and the Israelis, must feel beyond the parameters of their own skin. To feel one's own point of view only will get no one anywhere in the Middle East, or beyond. The point of view is unbalanced and tells only one side of the story. When we can see only our side of the story, interpersonal relationships cannot exist. Bring that up to the level of nationalism, and the consequences are tragic.
Both nationalities are displaced and need to consider one another. However, to feel the need to destroy the other goes back to the concept of silencing that which is within by quieting that which is "out there". It will not work. Peace comes from within, and the only way to world peace is through inner peace.
"Balance is the path."
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Why the Israeli Economy is Thriving while the Rest of the World is in Recession
Dan Senor and Saul Singer report on how the Israeli economy has been thriving while the rest of the world has gone in the gutter:
For all the press coverage of the Middle East, there is one side of Israel that gets scant attention: the country’s economy has the highest concentration of innovation and entrepreneurialism in the world today. For years, multinational technology companies and global investors have been beating a path to Israel. Even in 2008—a year of global economic turmoil—per capita venture investments in Israel were 2.5 times greater than in the United States, more than 30 times greater than in Europe, 80 times greater than in China, and 350 times greater than in India. And Israel still boasts the highest density of start-ups in the world (a total of 3,850 start-ups, one for every 1,844 Israelis). More Israeli companies are on NASDAQ than companies from all of Europe, China, India, Korea, and Japan combined.
In the article, they give most credit towards the IDF enlistment requirement for Israeli teenagers at the end of high school. Instead of going off to college, most Israelis go into the army where they are forced to grow up quickly Harvard, Yale and Princeton are made equivalent to the elite units in the IDF. “There is something about the DNA of Israeli innovation that is unexplainable,” Shainberg said. But he did have the beginnings of a theory. “I think it comes down to maturity. That’s because nowhere else in the world where people work in a center of technology innovation do they also have to do national service.”[snip]By the time students finish college, they’re in their mid-twenties; some already have graduate degrees, and a large number are married. “All this changes the mental ability of the individual,” Shainberg reasoned. “They’re much more mature; they’ve got more life experience. Innovation is all about finding ideas.”
They do make some good points, though I think that there are some other factors that come into play here:
- Due to the pressure of living in Israel, most Israeli kids are already more mature than their diaspora counter-parts at the end of high school
- The society here is encouraging of the macho, risk-taking personality traits that startups demand
- Secular Israelis tend to idolize all things American and Western. Early technology adoption coupled with the above factors naturally lead to more innovation.
- One can't underplay the contributions of those who have made aliyah (immigration) in the past decade from the US, Europe and other English speaking countries. This includes many new tech leaders in Israeli society.
The Forgotten Refugees - Part 1 of 5
This video is essential to truly understanding the complexity of the struggles in the Middle East over Israel. The only link I attached is to the first video, but there are 5 segments, every one of them worth viewing to see the whole story. This video series sheds a light on the struggles in the Middle East in a way I hadn't seen it before.
Sadly, there are no true victors regarding the Palestinians and the Jews of the Middle East - both are actually refugees in the Middle East.Until both sides accept this fact and make room for each other, the Middle East struggles over the land of Israel and its propaganda on either side will continue to mimick organized wrestling...outward ignorance and hostility, lack of interest in the real truth, seeing only one side of reality as the whole truth, propaganda, bullying, false good versus false evil, mud slinging, and extreme spinning. Watch it...there is a part of history that needs a spotlight put on it in order to clarify current events that are very much in the spotlight. The past is prologue.Check out this video on YouTube:
"Balance is the path."
Israel's strong military network builds a strong start-up culture
Every five years Harvard Business School hosts a class reunion,” says Tal Keinan, an Israeli HBS grad. “It’s fun. It helps keep your network intact. We spend two days visiting with classmates, sitting in lectures. But imagine a reunion every year, and that it lasts for two to four weeks. And it’s with the unit you had spent three years with in the army. And instead of sitting in lectures, you’re doing security patrols along the border. It nourishes an entirely different kind of lifelong bond.
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Check out the new book Start-up Nation to learn more about the fascinating connection between Israel's national service requirement and it's technology start-up economy.
Netanyahu insists Israel is only for Jews
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly voiced the Israeli government's plans to expel indigenous Palestinian Arabs from their occupied lands.
Netanyahu stressed that Palestinians should recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to end their conflict.
"That's right," Netanyahu told The Washington Post when asked if such recognition was needed.
"Israel is not a bi-national state," AFP quoted Netanyahu as saying on Saturday. "It has non-Jews who live here with full, equal rights, but it has two things that assure its special character."
"It's the homeland of any Jew. And there is a very broad consensus in Israel that the Palestinian refugee problem should be resolved outside Israel's borders," he added.
Netanyahu said Palestinians will have to make a final peace deal with "the Jewish state of Israel."
"Jews come here and Palestinians will go there. So choose. That's the basis of a solution," Netanyahu concluded.
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More for the prophecy buffs...
All kinds of news of late concerning the burgeoning role of Turkey in the Middle East, as the Turkish government seeks to reestablish an Ottoman Empire of sorts, making peace in all different directions. Given that an older view of literal prophetic interpretation sees Turkey rather than Russia as being pivotal to the last days confederacy against Israel, I was amazed to see the following stories all hitting on the same day.
Important economic accords are being struck with Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and others in the region are being courted, even while Turkey snubs its somewhat friend, Israel.
Hmmm. I report, you... well, you know.
Russia in oil and gas deals with Turkey
Turkey says Syria will only accept them as mediator in talks with Israel
Turkish Prime Minister says Azerbaijan flag is as holy as Turks' own
NUMBERS 32 "The TRIBES SETTLING EAST of the JORDAN: The CHILDREN of REUBEN & GAD find the LAND EAST of the JORDAN to be GOOD for CATTLE & ask MOSES PERMISSION to SETTLE there RATHER THAN CROSS OVER; but MOSES is UPSET by this REQUEST because it DISCOURAG
NUMBERS 32 "The TRIBES SETTLING EAST of the JORDAN: The CHILDREN of REUBEN & GAD find the LAND EAST of the JORDAN to be GOOD for CATTLE & ask MOSES PERMISSION to SETTLE there RATHER THAN CROSS OVER; but MOSES is UPSET by this REQUEST because it DISCOURAGES the REST of ISRAEL from FULFILLING GOD's PLAN & he REMINDS them about the MEN who LOST FAITH in the WILDERNESS of SINAI; but the CHILDREN of REUBEN & GAD tell MOSES that they WILL FIGHT for ISRAEL to ENTER the PROMISED LAND, & only AFTER they have ACHIEVED VICTORY will they RETURN & SETTLE EAST of the JORDAN & this was ACCEPTABLE to MOSES" recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK 32:1 The Tribes Settling East of the Jordan (Deut 3:12-22) Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock, 2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying, 3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon, 4 the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock." 5 Therefore they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan." 6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: "Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here? 7 Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? 8 Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. 9 For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them. 10 So the LORD's anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying, 11'Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, 12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.' 13 So the LORD's anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone. 14 And look! You have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel. 15 For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people." 16 Then they came near to him and said: "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, 17 but we ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance. 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan." 20 Then Moses said to them: "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war, 21 and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him, 22 and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be blameless before the LORD and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. 23 But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out. 24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth." 25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying: "Your servants will do as my lord commands. 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead; 27 but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says." 28 So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel. 29 And Moses said to them: "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession. 30 But if they do not cross over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan." 31 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: "As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do. 32 We will cross over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan." 33 So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country. 34 And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer, 35 Atroth and Shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah, 36 Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim, 38 Nebo and Baal Meon (their names being changed) and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built. 39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it. 41 Also Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth Jair. 42 Then Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah, after his own name. 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