Israel at 60: Celebrate or What?

Among all the postmodernist rubbish, there may be one good idea: “what we say about any given subject is always constructed, and there are only partial truths“. All the more so about Israel and the whole Palestine, where if there is one thing that never changes, is the conviction of people on both sides to be speakers of the whole truth, completely disregarding the others’ arguments: and thereby guaranteeing there will be no progress whatsoever.

I have my own ideas on what should be done and by whom. But there is little point in arguing who’s wrong and who’s right. Personally, I believe they are right those (where they come from) whose actions bring less suffering, less deaths, and less instability.

Don’t Stop Digging

After an earthquake, and after the quake (or perhaps, the quakes) in China this month, talks of ”too much time has passed for anybody to be still alive” chillingly keep coming back.

It is actually known since the Messina earthquake of 1908 if not longer, that humans can survive well beyond what we can imagine. Hope should never die, or at least for three weeks. Certainly not after just a handful of days.

Dig, dig, dig: nothing else makes sense, right now.