Showing posts with label israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label israel. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I was appalled to read the hateful and spiteful comments beneath the photo, comment after comment, all condemning this organization, blaming them for being anti-Israel, blaming them for only fighting for the rights and well being of the Palestinians while Israelis have it rough as well, as Israelis have been living in danger and fear as well - it's an ridicules comparison - comparing the life of an average Israeli to the life of an average Palestinian - how ignorant and not aware of the physical reality one must be to stand behind such a comparison?
As I was reading their comments, it was obvious that these people are brainwashed, and have lost touch with the physical reality, they have lost the basic understanding that before and beyond us being separated by countries and politics, we are all human beings, they have lost the recognition that there are not monsters and demons on the other side of the fence , but people, flesh and blood, families and communities - people with names and hobbies, children that express the joy of laughter, mothers who care for their daughters, fathers who want to protect their families, educators who want the best for their students, doctors who want to heal the sick and injured, friends who want to sped time and enjoy each other - they, the haters, have forgotten that they, the Palestinians, are just like us, the Israelis - all they want is to live a happy and fulfilling life, though, within this situation, they are defending themselves, living in fear, living in hatred based on the past, based on what their leaders and media tell them, based on their daily experience, as they are living in a controlled war zone, surrounded by a hostile army, as well as surrounded by terror organizations that take shelter in their kitchens or schools… They have such uncomfortable living conditions, to say the least, but they are mainly guilty of the same crime we are, they are trying to survive - where as, all these haters that wrote the comments, are so caught up in their own fears and beliefs that they cannot see straight and actually consider the situation in common sense, within seeing all it's complicated aspects - all they can see has been cluttered and distorted by hate and fear.
The situation in Israel / Palestine is complex, and every minute that it continues unresolved makes the tare between the people bigger, and thus the situation harder to mend - but, up till today I thought the problem was a political one, not a personal one, and so, what I found most troubling today, is the comments, written by "my own people", comments full of hate, anger, rage and revenge - towards the Palestinians, and towards the organization who dares to stand up to protect the basic human right to a dignified and fulfilled life, obviously within exposing the insensitivity and unnecessary abuse Israel is participating within and directing for long enough.
I realize that finding a practical solution that is best for all might take time, negotiation, investigation, understanding, compassion, forgiveness - I realize there isn't a magic solution to a problem that has been compounding and perpetuation for so many years, I understand there are many points of view and it might take patience and perseverance to walk through all the options and actually find a solution, I even realize that there are political agendas to keep the situation going - I understand it's going to be hard, but I always knew it can be done - today, as I was reading the comments I experienced despair, I lost hope, I couldn't see beyond their hateful words, I couldn't see how any peace will even be possible if this is what's infesting the minds of people - how will there ever be a solution if this is how people see each other and look at the situation?
It took me a while to snap out if this experience, I was assisted by friends through talking the point out, and I realized that I have been fooling myself in several levels - I had made "them", the haters, into the problem, as I've abdicated my own self responsibility within accepting and allowing the world system to be as it is, as I've always knew about the situation but preferred to let others handle it, not standing up within and as myself, but instead I've been a silent observer, as a silent partner to all that has been going on around me. I have separated myself from them, the haters, in blame and self righteousness, and thus participating in exactly that which I blame them for, as I have been towards them as they are towards the Palestinians, existing within / as a polarity as I am the "good" and they are the "bad" instead of seeing the situation as it's physicality, no judgments, no blame, no polarities, no rights or wrongs. I have allowed myself to take their comments personally and to become emotional, overwhelmed in despair, which I realize is just another mind trick to keep me from breathing, from being here in equality and oneness within and as myself, keeping me from finding practical common sense solutions, towards solving and correcting myself within creating myself as the foundation for a solution / correction on a greater scale. I realize that, within the experience of giving up, within the experience of desperation I have been distracting myself from taking any physical action, even if the only action that I can practically do is to remain here in breath, it would be more effective, more supportive, more practical and more physical than going into the mind in the energy of an emotional reaction…
How easy it is to point figures and blame those that express their inner demons while I hide my inner demons disguised as self righteousness, judgment and blame, believing myself to be a better person, while actually proving to myself that we are in fact all the same, and thus we must always find ways to support ourselves and each other, and not turn to spitefulness and blame, as I've so easily done, just as they do towards the Palestinians
I realize that I don't know how and why they became to be hates, I don't know their life story, yet I judge them, and view them only through the lens of the few words I read, becoming narrow minded towards them, ignoring the multidimensionality of them and seeing them as only one thing "racist haters", just as they see the Palestinians.
I realize that my responsibility at this moment is to breathe, to remain stable, to write myself out and forgive myself when / as I see myself going into reaction such as I've experienced today, my responsibility is to express common sense when / as I can, as a form of self support and within that realizing that maybe someone will see the common sense and will start questioning their beliefs and their judgments, I realize that my responsibility is to live as an example of the principle of equality and oneness, and thus, my responsibility is to make sure that all that I participate within is aligned with equality and oneness as what is best for all, in equal consideration of all - I see today that the road is going to be a long one, I see how easy it is to judge and divert my focus on others, while participating in the exact same construct I blame them for - I realize that as long as I allow myself to be moved and directed by the mind I am equal to them from that perspective, as they too are being directed by their minds - thus, only through actual self change will I ever be able to support another to change, only through self correction will I be able to understand the path one has ahead towards self correction - until then, all I can do is humbly walk my process, in breath, in writing, in self forgiveness, one step at a time.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
I continue my investigation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as i have started in my previous blog, Day 95 - Will there ever be Peace in the Middle East, and will continue in the blogs to come – I realize I have never actually investigated this point, I have always only heard bits and pieces, and I am now taking responsibility and committing myself to educate myself on the topic.
I just watched the documentary "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land"- you must watch it!!!
A few points of mind control were shown in this film in regards to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict:
- The media is deliberately disregarding the lives of the Palestinians - when an Israeli dies at the war, they show their families, they make it into a tragedy, but when Palestinians die, they rarely say their name, they just say a number, and even if it is a few dozen, they will say "just a few dozen Palestinian", like they are meaningless, like they don't count. We must realize that it is designed, planned and calculated, they want us to disregard the fact that these are human beings, just like us, with families, friends, hobbies… it's a constant and deliberate act of dehumanizing the Palestinians, as the media places more value on the live of the Israeli, and as we are exposed to this time and time again we accept it to be true. We are being desensitized by the media and we are allowing it.
- The use of words is a major part of the propaganda, as we are being brainwashed through the specific words being used to create within ourselves a desired point of view that we believe to be our own, but in fact we are being fed it. The media influences and thus manipulates our minds into seeing reality as they paint it for us, and as the repeat these words over and over they manage to make us believe it, and thus without our noticing they alter our grasp of reality. Two example that were given in the film: one is how the media had changed the description of the occupied territory Gilo into "neighborhood Gilo" thus, creating an impression that the violence and attacks by the Palestinians are taking place in a nice peaceful Israeli neighborhood, when in fact it in an illegal settlement, in illegal and occupied territory, and the second is where they use the word terrorist to describe pretty much everything and anything that is related to Palestinians, and here this has many levels of deception, because it is portraying the Palestinians as evil monsters, that are motivated by hate, and it's is creating a blinding screen to the fact that they are fighting for their land, they are fighting for a peaceful, respectful, quiet life, it is disregarding the fact that they are existing under a military regime and are being oppressed on a daily basis. The situation is described as the Palestinians are the terrorists, while the Israelis are merely defending themselves. Showing only a partial picture as they are not showing the actual and total time line within all it's dimensions.
- Within an agenda to create more fear and more separation, the media is determined to focus on how to create more anxiety as they show the situation escalade and deteriorate, on the other hand, they are avoiding showing any signs of cooperation, any signs of the possibility to coexist, there are many organizations/groups of Israelis and Palestinians working together on projects, on solutions, creating relationships as humans, not as sworn enemies. Images like these do not make it to the news/media, as they might allow us to see that maybe not all Palestinians are monsters, maybe there can be negotiations because they want the same thing we do, to live peacefully, safely and freely
I've come to realize that only within the principle of equality, within realizing that all are one and equal and thus the most beneficial way of action must be to support all life equally, because it would mean we are all taken care of, we all take care of each other, we all join forces and together as a unified force create a heaven for all of us on this earth that we share - within realizing this, and walking this principle we will be able to see more clearly the manipulation being done on us - because it is always done in self interest, and it is creating fear and separation. If we would understand and realize equality it would be much harder to fool us, because anything that doesn't support all life must have a hidden agenda for some to benefit at the expense of others, as long as we don't realize equality and continue believing we are separate and enemies, we will believe anything that gives us power, power to control, to abuse, to have the upper hand, because we exist in fear - and this is what they are counting on, that's why it's up to us to take self responsibility and deliberately will ourselves to realize equality, that is the only way to free ourselves from the enslavement we have allowed ourselves to exist as. But, most of us prefer to be ignorant, prefer to be followers, prefer to believe they are taking care of our interests while they are only taking care of their owns.
More exploration in the next blog, stay tuned
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Within my process of developing critical thinking, I have been looking, in the past few days, at what has been going on is Israel/Gaza. This is what I found thus far as an overview of the situation. In the next blogs I will further my investigation to go deeper into each point, for more specificity and clarity.
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A few days ago a war started up again in Israel, the Israelis are shooting at the Palestinians and the Palestinians are shooting at the Israelis, both sides are justifying themselves with the common fraise we all are very much familiar with from childhood "but they started it".
I was surprised to see the comments and talk-backs coming from the Israeli side, so much hatred towards the Palestinians, completely disregarding the fact that they are living human beings who deserve to live a life of fulfillment and security, as we all do, as any living creature does, but the fear and hatred has been brainwashed into our minds through the media to such an extent, that the fact that there are human beings, children, on the other side, is completely overlooked. not to mention the un balanced forces comparing the strong Israeli army of and the Palestinians as the Israelis have air force and defense methods while the Palestinians are basically bare and exposed…
Israel is coming close to election time, and all the politicians are using this war as part of their campaign, one must ask oneself, how much of the timing of this war was accidental or specifically planed to manipulate the people, to get in more votes… through what I see being posted on Facebook, and talk backs on articles, it seams like most of the Israeli people are supporting the war and are applauding it, all are so proud of the Israeli army, and showing off the new weapons.
Now here is another interesting point, the Israeli weapon industry had developed this new war toy, the "Iron Dome" and has been using it proudly in this war to protect the Israeli people from the Palestinian's missiles, it seams to me that this war has been made into a marketing event, showing off the new gadget and testing it out in a live battle, for all the world to see - on the first page of CNN website, they didn't discuss the war, they discussed the "Iron Dome", the new toy that Israel is so proud of, like a free advertisement campaign for the potential buyers to see
Another point to consider, that was mentioned in the Israeli news is that the Hamas leader, Ahmed Jabari, that was assassinated, which is what got this war started, was actually in the process of negotiating for a peaceful settlement, not to say that it would necessarily have brought about peace in the middle east, but it's a certainty that without talking and negotiating, no peace will ever be an option - so it looks like Jabari was assassinated to prevent any peaceful deliberation, apparently peace cannot be accepted because war is economically a good decision, so peace would not be a wise economical choice
Which is another crazy point, I mean, already so much of the Israeli budget goes to defense and military, it's not like the war is actually making the country's budget any bigger with a greater money flow for what actually matters to bring about a worthy living experience for the people, by supporting education/health/infrastructure, no, the budget goes mostly to the military / security, thus only the few will actually benefit financially from this war, and the rest of the people pay taxes, while they have to find shelter to hide from the fire
I for one, do not support this war. I support communication and negotiation, I support doing whatever it takes to create allies and not enemies, I mean, the situation has been escalating and escalating for years, because we are not stopping it, because we are only blaming the other side, not trusting the possibility that peace can ever be achieved, and not for one moment taking responsibility in seeing how we, on each side, are the cause of the problem and thus are responsible for the situation, to find what we can do to make a difference, instead of only blaming and pointing fingers and waiting for the other side to make a move
So what is this war really about?
It's about who will get elected, because the Israeli people have been brainwashed with fear and blame to such an extent that when there is war they see it as a good thing - so here is the construct of blame and fear
It's about money, as any war is about money, and in this case specifically, it's that much more clear, due to this new piece of equipment that is being publicly displayed and promoted - and here the construct of greed
I will continue investigating this point in my next blog
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
This morning I had an interesting
experience during our morning
conversation where we talked about the possibility of there being a big nuclear
war. Looking at the history it's easy to see that every time there was an economic
crises in the world economy, it has been "solved" through bringing
about a big war, to distract the people, to create jobs, to destroy and then to
build…. I don't understand how war creates money, but apparently it does. Obviously
not all benefit from the money made at war, and many people will suffer and die,
but nevertheless, it's the capitalistic way.
During our talk I had a
"scary thought" about nuclear war in Israel (where I come from), and I
was flushed by a sadness of seeing in my mind a quick image of everything and
everybody being totally burned to the ground and completely wiped out, the next
thought was about the suffering and death of my family and friends, and the
next one was about the loss I would experience when they've all gone and I will
be left an orphan within no friends/family/country, all alone.
So I'm sitting there, feeling
sad and sorry for those I care about dying in a horrible/painful death, when I then
realized the self-interest/deception within it all, is ones death more painful
than another's? Am I sad for my loss or for their death? Am I sad for them dying
or for their pain and suffering?
It suddenly hit me that people
are actually dying as I am writing this blog, people are starving, people are
being raped, sold as sex slaves… and there is a war going on all the time,
people are being shot every day…. And I am sitting here feeling sad and sorry
for the idea of my loved ones dying when actual real live people are dying in
pain and suffering all the time and I don't care.
The conversation was very
emotional to me, first the point of fear of loss and pain/suffering of my loved
ones, and then the realization of all the suffering that is going on at the
very moment, to other people, that I don't know, but they are alive and
suffering and I don't fucking care. So I was faced in disbelief to my disregard
of life, to my indifference to the cruelty that I am allowing as this system to
go on undisturbed, while I worry about a war that hasn’t started that will
perhaps hurt people I know.
I'm not sure I'm getting the
point across, I know it's natural to care for those that we love, but does that
mean it's ok not to care for those we don't know? Is it acceptable that
people/animals are suffering while it can be prevented, but we are just
allowing it because it's not our loved ones…. What the fuck!!!
As I said, I am Israeli, so
we mention the memory of the holocaust every year. One major point that is brought
up is how the world sat around and did nothing while so many people were slaughtered.
And I ask you now, how can we sit around and do nothing while so many are being
tortured by the system and do nothing??????? How can we accept all the
suffering that is created by our fellow human beings and sit back and allow it.
We are participating through our allowance; we are responsible through our allowance.
And we must pay the consequences through our allowance. We can try to hide our
responsibility behind the fact that we are not directly hurting anybody, but
looking within self-honesty – is that really true? Are we not hurting ourselves
as the expression of life by not standing up as what is best for all within equality
and stopping the horror show that we have allowed to go on?
Self-Forgiveness
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to experience fear towards nuclear war
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to fear there being a nuclear war in Israel,
within that I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to go into energetic
reaction of fear/sadness/distress
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to imagine the image of a nuclear war in Israel and
within that I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to react
emotionally to the image presentation I have created in my mind
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to fear losing my friends/family in a nuclear war
and to remain all alone in the world, within that I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to place more value on my "loved ones"
than on other beings just because I am 'connected' to them, not taking into
consideration other people's pain/suffering just because I don't know them
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to be saddened by the idea of losing everybody in
war because I fear being left alone, within this I forgive myself for not accepting
and allowing myself to actually consider the pain/suffering of the people but
only see my own suffering within self-interest within not wanting to be left
alone
I forgive myself for not
accepting and allowing myself to see the actual abuse/pain/suffering being will
be going through if a war does break through and within that I forgive myself
for accepting and allowing myself to inly consider myself within self-interest
not taking into account anything and anyone as nature/animals/people that will
be harmed by a way
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to believe myself of being a good/nice/caring person when in fact I am no
better than any abuser that acts within self-interest because I have allowed
myself to exist within/as sell-interest as who I have allowed myself to become,
and thus I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to create myself as
a good/caring character because it is socially more accepted in the society I come
from, and thus to hide the hidden manipulations that I have allowed to be the force of me.
I forgive myself for accepting
and allowing myself to even in the face of war/murder/painful death to choose
my own self-interest as worrying about how I will be left alone within
family/friends and not consider the bigger picture of all the suffering of
earth/nature/animals/humans as result of war
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to value one death over another
I forgive myself for not accepting
and allowing myself to see that all men are created equally and thus all
pain/suffering/death is equal to all people, within that I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to value the death/suffering of those I know,
placing their lives as more valuable than other people's lives, within that
actually implying that I value my life more than anyone's life because the only
reason I have cared for those is because of self-interest, because I don't
prefer to be left alone
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to prefer people dye in war within a starting
point of resistance to have to face their suffering, within that I forgive
myself for accepting and allowing myself to see the world only from the narrow eyes
of self interest instead of allowing myself to expand and be one with all life,
within taking everything into consideration within realizing I am one and equal
to all in existence and thus all is me as one and equal, within that I forgive
myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realize myself as one and equal
but instead to remain closed off in my mind as self-interest induced by fear/justifications/characters,
anything to keep me trapped and not to realize myself as life
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to deliberately stay trapped within/as my mind because
of self-interest of not wanting to take self-responsibility because I want to in
fact be on top at the expense of other, within that I forgive myself for not accepting
and allowing myself to go of the ideas of the mind to be able to free myself
from the self-created/enforced prison I have been existing as, not actually
living, not actually supporting myself as life, but only pretending to be alive
and care about life, within that I forgive myself for not accepting and
allowing myself to actually care about life as all as one as equal
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to exist in separation to such a extent that
people are dying within suffering/pain/abuse all around me and I do not care/do
anything to stop it
I forgive myself for accepting
and allowing myself to occupy myself within/as the mind and within/as self-interest
activities to distract myself from actually seeing all the pain/abuse/suffering
in the world because if I would in fact see it I could ignore it within the
excuse of ignorance anymore
I forgive myself for
accepting and allowing myself to disregard life as one and equal to/as myself
I forgive myself for not
accepting and allowing myself to realize that when I disregard life I am in
fact disregarding myself as life
I forgive myself for accepting
and allowing myself to use the excuse of ignorance to ignore life, through
distracting me with my preoccupations, doing anything but allowing myself to
see the actual brutal/abusive reality of existence that I have been creating
and participating within/as, only to hide from myself the participation because
it is too hard to admit and to look at, and thus to blame others for creating
all the suffering while I have done nothing to stop it
Self Commitment
I commit myself to stop
myself within as breath when I become emotional about pain/suffering of loved
ones, because I have realized the deception within caring/valuing ones death
over anothers, within that I commit myself to stop myself within/as breath
when reacting emotionally because I realize it is energizing/feeding the mind
and is of no practical physical support
to the situation and thus to self
I commit myself to open my
eyes as to the abuse/pain going on around me and to realize within/through
self-investigation my participation within/as all of it, I commit to stop
hiding from myself the pain/abuse within justifications/excuses as if I had
nothing to do with it because I realize that I am participating with every
aspect of existence in every breath I take within the principle of equality and
within not doing a thing to change it
I commit myself to building
self-respect through committing myself to walking a daily process as I understand
that the only point I am actually able to change is self, and thus I commit myself
to change myself through writing/self-forgiveness/self-honesty/corrective
statement, because I realize that is the tools I have to change myself into a
being that respect life as one and equal, as I've realized that only through/as
equality/oneness can this world be corrected and actually enjoyable
I commit myself to walking a
daily process to change myself because I realize that if I can change anyone
can change, and along as I don't change and don't stop the abusive/disregarding
behavior I have accepted as myself, nothing is going to change
I commit myself to look at
myself within/as self-honesty, to take responsibility for who I have accepted
and allowed myself to be/become and to change myself in alignment within the
principle of equality to never again allow abuse/war/suffering within myself
and existence as myself
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