Beautifully Said…

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Enoughie

“What’s important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What’s important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.”

~ Dan Pallotta, from Steve Jobs, World’s Greatest Philanthropist 

http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2011/09/steve-jobs-worlds-greatest-phi.html

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Fareed Zakaria Explains the Arab World’s “Democracy Deficit”

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Enoughie

Following the previous post on Why Democratization Will Fail in the Middle East - which underscored the need to develop a vibrant civil society for democracy to function properly – CNN’s Fareed Zakaria presents a fascinating study by a Harvard economics professor on the Arab world’s political reality (see video):

Zakaria: Explaining the Arab World’s Democracy Deficit

As Egypt’s election campaign gathers pace, we are seeing the rise of candidates from Islamic parties, one… read more...

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Why Israel Is the New Czechoslovakia

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Enoughie

If there ever was a conflict in world history whose dynamics are practically identical to that of the Arab-Israeli conflict it would be the situation of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars.

Just look at the similarities:

  • Both Czechoslovakia and Israel were supposedly “artificially” created by the Allied powers following World War I (Czechoslovakia was created by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and Jews were given the right to establish a Homeland in Palestine in the San Remo Conference of
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No One Fears an Iranian “Bomb” More Than The Ayatollahs…

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Enoughie

Iranian women undress to protest their role as second-class citizens

A group of Iranian women living abroad have recorded a video message in which they defend women’s rights – while posing topless.

The women speak straight to the camera, explaining their reasons for posing nude: “My nudity is a ‘no’ to stoning to death,” “For those who want to but can’t…”, and even: “Why not?”

These women are continuing the trend that started with Aliaa Al-Mahdy, a young

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What Research Says About Generosity and Natural Philosophy

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Enoughie

In the post The Geopolitics of Morality : Religion vs. Peace I asserted the following:
The natural philosophy of life is not merely some social, cultural, or man-made construct. Rather, the values of honesty, generosity, equality, and freedom have a direct relation to how nature and the world operate.
The more we learn about the world and human behavior, the more evident this becomes. A recent article in the Daily Mail provides more evidence for the importance of generosity in relationships:

Generosity could be the biggest key to a happy marriage

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A [Short] Tribute to Steve Jobs

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Enoughie

“Every once in a while I find myself in the presence of purity — purity of spirit and love – and I always cry…. I cried in my office as he was showing me the idea, and I still cry when I think about it”

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The Secret Palestinian Leaders Don’t Want You to Know

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Enoughie

(Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Associated Press / Mary Altaffer)

Do Palestinians Want Peace?

A 2010 poll of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, taken among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, shows that given the choice between:

a) Ending the occupation, establishing a Palestinian state, signing a peace treaty with Israel, and declaring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Part III : The Core of the Conflict

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Enoughie

A 2010 poll of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, taken among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, shows that given the choice between:

a) Ending the occupation, establishing a Palestinian state, signing a peace treaty with Israel, and declaring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

and

b) Continuing the struggle until the destruction of the Jewish state (at the expense of not establishing a Palestinian state)

The vast majority of Palestinians (81.7%) chose to continue the struggle until the destruction of the Jewish

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Part II : Why the Middle East is on a Path to War

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Enoughie

The previous post in the series demonstrated how instead of trying to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, and address the legitimate grievances of the Palestinian people, Arab leaders have been focused on one goal: the destruction of the Jewish State.

It showed how the demand for the “Right of Return” of Palestinian refugees into Israel is an Arab attempt to distort history, and unjustly shift the entire responsibility for the Arab-Israeli conflict to Israel. It also showed how the Arab demand for a “Right of

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Part I : Why Peace is Impossible

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Enoughie

In March 2002, then-Crown Prince, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia proposed the “Arab Peace Initiative” in the Arab League Beirut Summit. According to Arab leaders this initiative consisted of a comprehensive proposal to end the entire Arab-Israeli conflict. The Arab League members unanimously endorsed the peace initiative on March 27.

According to the Arab Peace Initiative Israel will:
(a) Complete withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the 4 June 1967 line and the territories still occupied in southern… read more...

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