The Old World Order

And so 15 years later there is no talk of New World Order, it died at its inception. Now the task to clean up the New-Middle-East-Mess is more uncertain, more complex. And ALL SOLUTIONS only temporary anyway, for no amount of “democracy in the region” can obliterate the hatred and distrust caused by centuries of quarrels, recent violent disputes and devastating military activities.

Israel’s 1948 birth and its aftermath was achieved by a series of deceptions and for such, it will always be threatened by those seeking to avenge themselves, their forefathers, their dead, their dispossessed and traumatized. Israel’s wants recognition, security and a universal ‘right to exist’. A right that will not be achieved by military force, coercion and bullying, that it feels threatened and surrounded by hostile neighbourhoods, it’s true, but then it did not place itself there to behave like Father Christmas either…