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It is now clear, that with the Montreal Protocol (The first ever international protocol on regulation of chemical pollutants) we did save our children and grand-children from very unpleasant future.

But the real message of Montreal Protocol is simply that: “It Can Be Done!”  We can join our forces and agree on common action, when facing really disastrous outcomes.  As stated in the original article Montreal Protocol is a  “remarkable international agreement that should be studied by those involved with global warming and the attempts to reach international agreement on that topic.”

I remember the times when the media was full of environmental activists calling for action on regulating the mentioned chemicals and it was looking equally hopeless as today’s fight(s) to regulate plastic pollutants, global warming or even increasing poverty levels and political destabilization.  I think Montreal Protocol should be consider a “seed of hope “  and a template for many other following, positive, common actions.

You can check the original article on Universe Today: Here

According to scientific research 13 % of worlds oil is located behind the Arctic circle and even bigger percentage of natural gas (up to 30%). By now it doesn’t look like there is much will for diplomatic solution of the appearing conflicts. Instead US,Russia,Norway and Denmark are already planning to build military training centers in the zone.

So, apart of the evident environmental destruction by the industrial exploitation of one of the last untouched pieces of this planet, we can also face a new territorial war.Unseen from the end of  World War 2. This is a very dangerous appearing global reality.  If we will start with a massive indusrialization of the polar areas, it will be not only a possible point of no return for our planet, but also a final hit for UN under which autority is Arctic area according to international agreements.

Every small child is learning this fact in the school, but apparently the world leaders are still not aware of it.

You can read more on the website of the Arctic Council

here

Link to “The Trap” documentary film

The 2nd  chapter’s title “Lonely Robot”, just cannot be more accurate. I instantly remembered about a short movie I saw on Youtube time ago.

Android 207.

Isn’t that funny that you can remember about little android lost in the labyrinth, while watching a documentary about actual (very recent) political and social events.

Something must be wrong no?  I am not an android. Are  You?

The International community is staying divided and so are the Arab countries. With only Syria,Iran and Qatar taking a hard stand. So not really much change to the situation before the Israeli 22 days long massacre. The European leaders are quietly waiting for the new American policy of Mr.Obamas administration. And Mr.Obamas “It will be the first thing I will do after I take the office”, turns into first thing he promised to do and he didn’t. Well, it looks like Israelis picked a very good moment for their “final solution”.  There is no doubt that the timing of the offensive during the Mr. Bushes long good bye and Mr.Obamas long Hello was not purely accidental.

So the only real outcome of  Israeli offensive are more than 1000 victims of the conflict. Hamas is staying more or less untouched. Keeping the control over the Gaza and probably with more support than ever before. The main official objective of the offensive, to stop the Hamas launching the rockets on Israeli (?) ground was an absolute failure. With more than 40 Palestinian rockets falling on Israel on Saturday,the last day of the offensive.

So no victory and no solution for non of the participants. Just  hundreds of innocent victims and a big loss for  international community and the UN closing their eyes . It may be looking like the conflict is over (as the “reality show” of News Channels is), but it should not be over for us, if we want to live in the world ruled by the law and order and not  by the dictation of  “rogue” states, that are having more power over our own governments than  the UN itself.

The Israeli offensive is over, but I hope the overall public disillusion with Israeli actions is not, and that finally there will be consequences.

As the body count of the Israeli operation in Gaza grows we have to start asking, “What  will be consequences for Israel for his brutal violation of human rights and international law?” Is this conflict going to be forgotten, like all the previous Israeli operations against the Palestinian population? Is the state of Israel going to annex another small piece of Palestinian  territory, without the following  intervention  of  UN? Are the Zionists going to postpone the peace process leading to two state solution for another generation ? Exterminating not only their blood enemies on the other side of the Gaza frontier, but also their biggest enemy: “The rule of international law!”

As I’m going through the many on-line articles and forums , I am being (not so) surprised by the sheer scale of public support for the Palestinians. Even after the constant brainwash policy   of  ” War on Terror  ” that has been put in effect by most “Westworld”  mass-media  and the general subsequent anti-muslim and anti-arab moods, there is no doubt that the support of the world public is today with the Palestinians. You really have to fuck-up hard to achieve this kind of results  in the current socio-political climate and it is exactly what Israelis achieved! A total loss of support for their causes on international scale!

I am far from describing myself an antisemitic, as I am coming from a part of the world that was hit very hard by the Holocaust and the Nazi rule. I grew up listening to the stories of my grandmother, about her Jewish friends that were one day concentrated on the main square of our small-town and stuffed in the stock wagons to never return back.  The tragedy of the Jewish nation is without any doubt the biggest humanitarian catastrophe ever, and I do not blame the early Israeli settlers that they refused to return to their old neighbours, after what they’ve done to them. But I always believed that Israel was the first big mistake of United Nations,as it was imposed on the Palestinians by the very international community that than failed to protect them from their new rulers.  The history of Israel is a History of the suffering of Palestinian people and current events are only an evidence of that claim.

The State of Israel has been created as a safe-heaven for the Jewish Diaspora which have been afraid of another Holocaust after WWII, but Israels claims on “right to defend themselves” are just sounding so inappropriate today. After bombing thousands of innocent Palestinian citizens and killing hundreds, after targeting UN compounds and suppressing the freedom of press, after violating tens of international agreements; “Israel has never been closer to an absolute catastrophe and the security of it’s citizens has never been compromised in the same way as it is today.”

For every Hamas terrorist killed during the operation (and for every innocent citizen), five new will grow. Israel surrounded by millions of his enemies will now face bigger danger than ever.  Not due to the international antisemitism, but due to its own actions. The eventual short term security improvements for Israeli citizens will be very soon outgrown by the long term consequences of these actions. The Gaza attacks are water on mills and a blessing for terrorist recruiters, not only in Palestine but elsewhere and they are a complete disaster for moderate Muslim leaders.

The only way to reverse a very unfortunate fate for Israel and a sad legacy of its actions for the rest of us is to impose  the Palestinian State on Israel, the same way as the Israel was  imposed on Palestine. It is the only way to restore the UN credibility as well.  Israel is playing a lot these days. Undermining the credibility of the very organization separating it from its terrorist roots (Lehi)  and giving it a legal right to exist.

Lehi

I just hope the pace of the international politics will finally turn around and this will be the last fiasco of UN, which managed to completely destabilize the international politics with the Kosovo’s doubtful independence and the subsequent Russian actions in Georgia. I just hope we will soon remember about the Raison d’être of the organization called UNITED NATIONS and about the circumstances of its creation.