أرصاد أرضية

I had a meeting with the purchasing manager of a real estate firm, they are looking for suppliers... In these tough times dollars seem to shine a lot brighter... Our guest was very friendly, rather polite and from another Arab nationality... The meeting started, he introduced his firm... "we are working in several countries.." he talked about how difficult it is to move from one spot to another in Iraq. "It is very dangerous, we have to move with helicopters to visit to places like Ramadi ". It doesn't really take a genius to guess who uses helicopters in Iraq, but I wanted to make sure so I asked what kind of projects do you perform. "95% of our business is with the American Army, Iraq, Afghanistan...etc" He smiled and was soo confident as if it was meant to impress me and my boss... he continued bla bla bla and I remember hearing my diplomatic boss kidding with him "so wherever there is trouble you're there..." and my mind was going...

According to the Guardian, six years after the US celebrated the quick "Victory" in Afghanistan. Today, Taliban is gaining control over 50% of Afghan land, "It is no longer a question of Will Taliban gain control Kabul? It's just a matter of when and how!" You can check the Arabic version here on Aljazeera.net I wonder when we will see this report on Iraq, two years... three... and what's next? The road from Afghanistan to Jerusalem might be shorter than we think... but there is a hurdle along the way... One day there will be a confrontation, when? and which side will we stand against?

The mind has a very powerful way of work, fascinating, effective and sometimes quite dangerous. The mind creates "patterns" based on past experiences and codes them in words and gestures that are easy to identify in order to make decisions on the fly. Experiencing a pattern over and over again makes it harder for a mind to change the way it perceives things. For example, if you had a bad experience with a dog... Your mind creates a pattern for dog behavior based on that experience... If you have two, three, four similar experiences your mind identifies this pattern so strongly that it becomes very difficult to change that established pattern and restructure it... This is a very useful trait but can be very dangerous as well; it is very useful because it makes it easy to identify dangerous conditions at a very early stage. Creating patterns and coding them is very useful in terms of establishing minimum communication. The mind doesn't have to experience the same behavior ...

I quote this from the wikipedia as a simple reminder for you to reflect on, it's ironic how a mossad agent might have better understanding of how fake our borders are than the educated elite who so strongly hold those borders in their heads and hearts... go on, continue to talk about Jordan and Iraq, what a shame! " As former director of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad , Efraim Halevy, now a director at the Hebrew University said, The borders, which if you look on the maps of the middle-east are very straight lines, were drawn by British and French draftsmen who sat with maps and drew the lines of the frontiers with rulers. If the ruler for some reason or other moved on the map, because of some person's hand shaking, then the frontier moved (with the hand). – [6] He went on to give an example, There was a famous story about a British consul, a lady named Gertrude Bell who drew the map between Iraq and Jordan, using transparent paper. She turned to talk to somebod...