Israel Now
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In these past couple of days I have done thinking, maybe there’s more then meets the eye? May world events are not as arbitrary as one would think?
The Haiti Earthquake disaster is indeed an unfortunate event, but it got me thinking about what this world is all about.
Here we are fighting over land, and territory, fighting over resources and over religions while it is all insignificant. The earth moves a bit and we are helpless. All our weapons and technology, all the sophisticated machines we have are helpless in the face of nature. When such a disaster strikes the only thing that matters is how much we care for each other as human beings, how ready are we to help one another in the face of a catastrophe, and the answer is not as straight forward as one may think.
See, if a disaster such as the Haiti earthquake would strike Israel I am quite sure many nations would be actually happy, not knowing such a disaster makes no distinction between religions, races or any other characteristics of human behavior or origin, It will not be “the hand of god” or any other hand and the fact that some people, often with hidden agendas, take advantage of a catastrophe in a cynic manner is repulsive in my eyes. Any human being making a profit, be it economic, political or publicity gains, is not a human being.
Before we continue’ here are some images from this morening in Israel:
And now to today’s highlights in the news and, of course, what I think of them:
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A.B. Nathan’s daughter has been tracked in Haiti and she is safe and well.
A.B Nathan is one of the most important historic figures of our time, in my eyes anyway. The man was a irreparable peace maker until his last day and I think that even if it’s just to remind his name’ this news item is worth mentioning. -
Militants in Gaza have agreed not to fire rockets for a while
Translation – “Militants in Gaza don’t want to make Israel too angry by launching too many rockets in a short period of time” It is always the same thing all over again, they fire just enough rockets to make innocent civilians suffer but not enough for a counter strike from the IDF as if one rocket is different then 10. But it is calming to know that the IDF still scares the **** out of the Hamas and other militant groups in the Gaza strip enough so that they declare it on the news. -
Prank – The street signs of several major streets in Tel Aviv were replaced with names of reality TV shows stars.
This is hilarious, I guess it’s some kind of protest regarding how famous and how much influence the media is in our days. The ,most famous street sign replaced were Alenbi which was replaced to “Shifra Korenfeld ST.” which was the winner of the first season of the TV show “The big brother”, Sheinkin St. became “Yosef Bublil St.” also a contestant in the “Big Brother” show, King George St. was changed to Dan Mano St. which was the winner of Surrvival in Israel.
All this was done last night and today being friday made a hell of a mess in Down town Tel Aviv!
