Sunday thought

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to take dissident positions, privilege confers opportunity and opportunity means obligation." Chomsky

did you know that Ahmadinejad's "Israel must be wiped off the map" statement is a rediculously physically-impossible equation?

did you know that for people (nations) to co-exist under the same roof (sky) they need to smile in the morning, or else everyone will have a shitty day and dread coming home in the evening? or that they might even start destroying the furniture in one of their routine rage fits?

did you know how many amazing Isaeli bloggers are out there? people just like us, all they want is peace and quiet, a "normal" life so to speak

and did you know that so much communication and rational discussions are going on between Arab and Israeli bloggers? between Syrian and Lebanese bloggers? and that if this evolved and expanded we might actually have a chance to co-exist in the not so distant future?

We do co-exist and will indefinitely co-exist , these are the facts. The sooner we accept them the sooner we can start working on ways to live with them.

call me naive, call me ignorant, even a traitor. all I want is to come back home and have a peaceful evening. it's the easiest thing to be a cynic, to brush off and mock an idea because it's too unfamiliar and uncomfortable. and it's the hardest but most amazing thing to envision a reality that is seemingly out of reach.